COVID-19: Four community cases announced on Feb. 6 afternoon
VOV.VN - Vietnam confirmed five more coronavirus cases on February 6 afternoon, including four locally transmitted infections, according to the National Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
Bac Ninh, Binh Duong, Quang Ninh and Ho Chi Minh City have one case each, the committee said in its 18.00hrs update.
An imported case was detected in Long An province, southern Vietnam. It is a Vietnamese man who returned to the homeland from Japan.
Earlier in the morning the committee said Vietnam had registered no more new cases over 12 consecutive hours. Experts believed major coronavirus hotspots in Hai Duong and Quang Ninh provinces have been brought under control.
The SARS-CoV-2 virus has spread to 12 cities and provinces since it attacked Vietnam in late January 2021. As many as 398 people have since been infected with the virus, mostly in Hai Duong (290) and Quang Ninh (47).
Hanoi capital comes third with 23 cases, while Gia Lai province in the Central Highlands has 18 cases.
So far Vietnam has recorded 1,976 coronavirus cases since the disease broke out in the country in late January 2020. About 1,465 patients have recovered from the disease and 35 patients have died of COVID-19.