Since discovering the first two Wuhan patients positive for nCoV in Vietnam on January 23, experts from Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute coordinated with doctors from Cho Ray Hospital to prepare the content for the article.

Associate Professor Phan Trong Lan, Director of Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City, co-author, said the article raised the issue of nCov infection from person to person for the first time outside the Chinese border, contributing more information to the global epidemiological picture.

Part of the article was posted on NEJM on January 28.

The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is the world’s most prestigious and influential medical journal.

Currently, the health of the two patients has recovered well and is still being treated in isolation.

They are people living in Wuhan city, China.

The author group of the article was published in the NEJM journal.

The strange pneumonia epidemic originating from the new coronavirus (nCoV), announced on December 31, 2019, has now spread to many countries.

The New England Journal of Medicine has been operating for more than 200 years, with global influence.

Le Phuong