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Seven Britons have tested positive for coronavirus in Vietnam and two others being held at a "prison-like" hospital are waiting for their results to come back.

The UK citizens who tested positive were on the same London to Hanoi flight as a wealthy 'super spreader' who was carrying the infection and attended luxury fashion shows in Europe.

Vietnamese health officials were urgently trying to trace and test passengers who were on the same journey on March 2.

A 66-year-old British woman quarantined in the town of Hu since Saturday is in a stable condition with no fever or cough, said health officials.

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The seven Britons are among nine foreigners - all aged between 58 and 74 - to test positive following the Vietnam Airlines flight.

The other two foreigners are from Ireland and Mexico.

All are now in quarantine, along with two younger British backpackers who are waiting for their test results.

Friends Sam Carroll and Ciara Driver, both in their early twenties, claim they were forcibly quarantined in a "prison-like" hospital.

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They were tracked to a resort in Ha Long Bay by authorities days after arriving in the country.

Mr Carroll, from Richmond, London, told the Telegraph: "We are in quarantine and have been told that even if we don't have it we might have to stay here for two weeks."

He added: "This place is honestly like a prison.

"Everything is dirty, the bathrooms and food are awful.

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"So far, we have only spoken to one nurse who can speak only a little English so we don't know what's going on, and it's hard to ask for things like a bottle of water."

The Foreign Office is providing assistance to those affected.

They were traced while touring around Vietnam and found in various parts of the country.

The search for about 200 passengers who were on flight VN0054 was launched after Vietnamese woman Nguyen Hong Nhung, the daughter of a wealthy steel magnate, tested positive for Covid-19.

Nguyen, 26, was flying back to Hanoi after visiting family in London, touring Milan and staying with her sister in Paris.

It is believed contracted the flu-like illness in Europe.

Nguyen and her sister, 27-year-old socialite Nga Nguyen, who has also tested positive, were travelling together.

They attended fashion shows by Saint Laurent in Paris and Gucci in Milan.

More than a dozen Britons have been diagnosed with coronavirus while travelling abroad to countries including Japan, Singapore and Thailand.

A man who caught the bug on the Diamond Princess cruise ship - which was quarantined in Yokohama, Japan - ended up dying.

More than 140 UK citizens are trapped on the Grand Princess off the coast of California after 21 people onboard tested positive for the illness.

Three deaths in the UK have been linked to coronavirus.

A man in his 60s died at North Manchester General Hospital, an 83-year-old man died at Milton Keynes University Hospital and a woman in her 70s died at Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading.

All three had underlying health problems.

Confirmed cases of the virus in the UK hit 280 on Monday morning.