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Vietnam setting up field hospitals for possible coronavirus influx

HANOI: Vietnam is setting up field hospitals with thousands of beds to handle a potential influx of coronavirus cases, health officials said, as it prepares to receive its nationals from China.

Vietnam shares a long porous border with China and the communist neighbours have close trade and tourism ties.

So far Vietnam has 10 confirmed cases of coronavirus - including three people with no recent travel history to China.

The virus, declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization, has so far killed nearly 500 people and infected more than 24,000, mostly in mainland China.

Travel restrictions, flight bans and quarantines have been imposed as countries ramp up efforts to control the fast-spreading pathogen.

In Vietnam's southern business hub of Ho Chi Minh city - where three cases of coronavirus have been confirmed - two existing facilities are being converted into field hospitals with a total capacity of 500 beds.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/vietnam-set-up-field-hospitals-coronavirus-influx-12396242