Vietnam’s Ministry of Health reported 33 coronavirus patients, including 32 local cases, on Monday, with most traced back to two clusters in the northern region.

Seventeen of the new local cases were logged in Hai Duong, five in Quang Ninh, six in Hanoi, two in Gia Lai, one in Bac Giang, and one in Binh Duong.

The imported infection was a 24-year-old South African expert who had been quarantined upon arrival by plane in Vietnam from the UAE on January 17.

He tested positive on Sunday for COVID-19 in Ho Chi Minh City, where he is being isolated for treatment.

Vietnam is sealing its borders to all international arrivals but it still allows entry to skilled workers, experts, diplomats, and Vietnamese repatriates, who are all subject to mandatory quarantine upon arrival.

The country announced the first two local cases on January 28 after having gone nearly two months without any community-based infection.

A total of 270 domestic infections have been documented since then, according to the health ministry’s data.

Two hundred and five patients were detected in Hai Duong, 30 in Quang Ninh, 19 in Hanoi, six in Gia Lai, three in Bac Ninh, two in Hoa Binh, two in Binh Duong and one each in Ho Chi Minh City, Hai Phong, and Bac Giang.

The majority of the domestically-transmitted cases were linked to Hai Duong and Quang Ninh, both located in northern Vietnam.

Vietnam has confirmed 1,850 coronavirus cases, including 963 domestic infections, as of Monday night, with 1,460 recoveries and 35 deaths, according to the Ministry of Health.

It confirmed 84 local transmissions on Thursday, 62 on Friday, 61 on Saturday, and 31 on Sunday.

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