Three French tourists from Wuhan quarantined in HCMC

The tourists, who are family members, are being kept in isolation at the city’s Children’s Hospital as they showed signs of contracting the novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Binh added.

In addition, one Vietnamese transited through China’s Wuhan has also been quarantined at the city’s Hospital for Tropical Diseases, said Binh.

China's health authorities announced Saturday that 11,791 confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection had been reported in 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps by the end of Friday. A total of 259 people have died of the disease.

The National Health Commission said in its daily report that 1,795 patients remained in critical condition, and 17,988 people were suspected of being infected with the virus as of the end of Friday, according to China's national news agency Xinhua.

A total of 243 people had been discharged from hospital after recovery./.

By Thuy Dung