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HANOI, March 9 (Xinhua) -- The total confirmed cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection in Vietnam have risen to 31 as the Ministry of Health on Monday evening confirmed that a 49-year-old British citizen had contracted the virus.

The new patient, now being treated in Vietnam's central Quang Nam province, was on a same flight with 11 earlier confirmed cases from London to the Vietnamese capital city of Hanoi.

The first infection case confirmed on the Vietnam Airline flight, which arrived Hanoi on March 2, was a 26-year-old Hanoi-based female who has traveled to Europe. Vietnam's health ministry later confirmed that two of her close contacts had been infected and reported 10 more infections on the flight on March 8.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved the temporary suspension of visa waiver program for nationals of Britain, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Norway, Spain and Sweden. The country has earlier suspended the visa waiver program for South Korean and Italian citizens.

A total of 16 out of the 31 confirmed cases in Vietnam have been discharged from hospital and the country now has 210 suspected cases, according to its health ministry. Enditem