17 returnees from Russia infected with COVID-19, Vietnam has 1,094 cases
VOV.VN - Vietnam has recorded 17 new coronavirus cases that all returned from Russia, bringing the country’s infection tally to 1,094, according to the Ministry of Health September 29.
All the new patients are Vietnamese citizens who took flight QH9495 from Russia to Vietnam on September 26. They were all placed in quarantine as soon as they landed at Can Tho International Airport.
The citizens were then tested for COVID-19 and test results by the Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute showed they had contracted the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
The new cases brought the number of imported cases detected in Vietnam to 551 out of the total of 1,094 cases.
The number of coronavirus infections in Vietnam is expected to keep rising in the coming time as more and more Vietnamese citizens stranded overseas due to COVID-19 will be repatriated.
Meanwhile, the number of patients having gone on to make a full recovery from the disease has increased to 1,007 after 8 patients were discharged from hospital September 29.
September 29 also marked the 26th consecutive day Vietnam has registered no new locally transmitted cases.
The death toll caused by the disease remains at 35. Most of the fatalities suffered from underlying health issues such as chronic renal failure, chronic kidney failure, end-stage blood cancer, coronary syndrome, acute respiratory failure, polyarthritis, hypertension, diabetes (Types 2), sepsis, pneumonia, and multi-organ failure.
