Vietnam Orders Workers At Samsung Display Unit To Be Quarantined...

HANOI, April 13 (Reuters) - Authorities in northern Vietnam have ordered people working at a unit of Samsung Display factory in the country to be quarantined after a worker there tested positive for the new coronavirus.

A 25-year-old worker of the EQC-SI unit of the samsung firmware downloader, Display factory in Bac Ninh province tested positive on Sunday, according to a statement released on Monday by the anti-COVID-19 task force of neighbouring Bac Giang province.

Samsung confirmed the case, but said Samsung Display's production lines in Vietnam had not been affected. (Reporting by Phuong Nguyen and Khanh Vu Additional reporting by Heekyong Yang in SEOUL Editing by James Pearson; Editing by Kim Coghill)