HO CHI MINH CITY, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam's Health Ministry announced that a pregnant woman in southern Binh Duong province and a woman in Ho Chi Minh City have been infected with Zika virus, lifting the total number of Zika patients in the country to five.
The 27-year-old pregnant woman, who lives in the town of Thuan An in Binh Duong province, has neither toured nor contacted Zika patients before contracting Zika virus.
The 28-year-old woman from Ho Chi Minh's District 9 had not traveled far away before being infected with the virus.
The two women are now in good health conditions. Local authorities are taking measures to prevent new cases of Zika infections.
Zika virus has been spotted in over 40 countries in the world since it first surfaced in Uganda in the 1940s.
The virus is linked with cases of newborns with shrunken heads and brains.
