⁍ Vietnam was back on high alert for the coronavirus on Saturday.

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⁍ Medical officials in the central city of Danang detected the country’s first locally transmitted case for three months.

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⁍ Vietnam has imposed strict quarantine measures and carried out an aggressive and widespread testing programme during the pandemic.

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– Vietnam has reported its first locally transmitted case of coronavirus for three months. The 57-year-old tourist from the central city of Danang is now in critical condition in a hospital, reports Reuters. The country had reported no locally transmitted infections for 100 days until Friday, when the man tested positive. coronavirus is a respiratory illness related to the common cold that can cause pneumonia. The World Health Organization has reported 417 infections in the world so far, with no deaths, but Vietnam had reported no locally transmitted cases for 100 days until the man tested positive, reports the New York Times. Authorities say 50 people he came into contact with have been isolated. More than 11,800 people are being quarantined throughout the country, including 147 at hospitals. The government did not say how the man contracted the virus but said he had not left Danang for nearly a month. He was initially diagnosed with pneumonia. A fresh test on Saturday had confirmed the coronavirus infection, authorities said. The case comes at a time when Vietnam was about to resume international commercial flights and as domestic tourism is surging. Late on Friday, authorities in the capital, Hanoi, reinstated a recommendation to wear masks in public places. Vietnam’s ban on international commercial flights is still in place, but foreign experts and skilled workers have been able to enter provided they undergo mandatory quarantine. Of the nearly 150 cases reported over the past three months, all were found in people who had been quarantined on arrival.