COVID-19: Two Vietnamese returnees confirmed positive, 2,707 in total

The fresh cases are all Vietnamese citizens who entered the home country from  Qatar and Japan. They were put in quarantine right after landing at local airports and they are now under health observation for COVID-19 treatment.

Among all the cases, 1,570 are domestically infected cases and 1,137 are imported ones.

As many as 2,445 have fully recovered from the SARS-CoV-2 virus so far, with the fatality count remaining at 35.

Among those still under treatment, 50 have tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 at least once.

Currently, there are nearly 36,230 people having close contact with confirmed cases or coming from pandemic-hit regions under quarantine.

According to the National Expanded Immunization Programme, more than 59,250 frontline medical workers along with members of community-based anti-COVID-19 groups have so far been injected with the COVID-19 vaccine across 19 provinces and centrally-run cities throughout the nation.

One day earlier, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee in Ho Chi Minh City received more than VND34 billion (US$1.47 million) from businesses, local residents and overseas Vietnamese to purchase COVID-19 vaccines as part of a programme launched by the Ho Chi Minh Television in the first stage from February 25 to March 31.

Meanwhile, according to the Hanoi Department of Health, the capital city has gone nearly two months without no new community infections, with about 8,047 people being vaccinated against COVID-19, exceeding the set target.

The capital's COVID-19 vaccination priority in the second phase with more than 50,000 doses will be given to more than 26,000 health workers and more than 70,000 members of community-based anti-COVID-19 groups, and roughly 350,000 people in Hanoi are set to be inoculated with COVID-19 vaccines this year.