Patient No 383 left Japan on June 16 and arrived in Việt Nam through the Hòn Gai Port in the coastal province of Quảng Ninh on June 23. He was isolated on his boat until July 6, when he was taken into quarantine at a local hotel.

A project organised training courses for local women, helping enhance their empowerment through planting hemp plants and weaving cloth.

In a legal first, a man has been jailed in Việt Nam for killing another man 14 years ago in the United Kingdom.