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The Civil Aviation Administration said the country’s four airlines have added extra flights and larger planes to transport the people out of the city in central Vietnam.

“It will probably take four days to evacuate the 80,000 passengers,” CAA Director Dinh Viet Thang said in a statement.

Those leaving Da Nang have been advised to self-quarantine and report their health condition to local health agencies, the ministry of health said.

— New Zealand health authorities say they will trace and test people who came into contact with a traveler from the country who tested positive for the coronavirus after arriving in South Korea last week.

Health Minister Chris Hipkins says they’ve also asked South Korean authorities to undertake a second test to make sure the passenger has the virus.

It has been nearly three months since the last case of community transmission was found in New Zealand and any proof the passenger caught the virus while in New Zealand would come as a big shock to the nation of 5 million people.

Health officials in New Zealand say their counterparts in South Korea suspect the traveler was infected while in transit in Singapore.

“We have got our contact tracing system kicking into gear though,” Chris said.

— China on Monday reported 61 new cases of coronavirus, spread between its northeastern and northwestern regions.

The Xinjiang region in the northwest reported 41 new cases, while Liaoning and Jilin provinces in the northeast saw a combined 16.

Another four cases were brought by Chinese travelers from outside the country. China has reported 4,634 deaths among 83,891 cases of Covid-19.

— South Korea reported 25 new cases, bringing its national caseload to 14,175 infections and 299 deaths.

South Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 16 of the new cases were tied to people arriving from abroad.

The country in past days has reported dozens of cases among crew members of a Russia-flagged cargo ship docked in Busan and hundreds of South Korean construction workers airlifted from virus-ravaged Iraq.

Eight of the nine local transmissions were from the Seoul metropolitan area. 

(Writer & Editor: AP) 

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