COVID-19: Five imported cases detected, national tally hits 1,054
VOV.VN - Vietnam has confirmed five more coronavirus cases, all returning from overseas, bringing the total number of COVID-19 infections in the country to 1,054, the Ministry of Health reported on September 8 afternoon.
Two women, one living in Hanoi capital and the other in Phu Yen province, boarded the VJ2527 flight from the Philippines to Vietnam’s Can Tho International Airport on September 6. They were tested for COVID-19 on September 7 and the results showed they had both carried the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
A 35-year-old man of Lao Cai province in the north and his 2-year-old boy returned to Vietnam’s Tay Ninh province in the south on August 26 and were placed in quarantine shortly. They first tested negative on August 29, but their second tests came back positive on September 7.
The fifth case, a 26-year-old woman of Khanh Hoa province, central Vietnam, returned to Tay Ninh province on August 25. She tested positive on September 7 after the first negative test more than a week ago.
All the five cases have been quarantined as soon as they landed in Vietnam, therefore posing no risk to the community, the ministry assured.
Vietnam has so far recorded 1,054 coronavirus cases, including 691 locally transmitted cases. Since the resurgence of the virus in late July, 551 cases have been detected in the community in nearly 20 cities and provinces.
The number of patients who have recovered and have been discharged from hospital has risen to 868, following the release of an additional 14 patients on September 8.
Meanwhile, 35 patients have died of COVID-19 and other underlying illnesses, such as chronic renal failure, blood cancer, heart attack, diabetes (type II), hypertension and multi-organ failure.
