COVID-19: Vietnam reports three imported cases on April 12 morning
VOV.VN - The country confirmed three fresh imported cases of COVID-19 on April 12 morning, raising the overall number of coronavirus infections to 2,696 since the virus hit the nation in January 2020, according to the Ministry of Health.
Among the latest cases, two were found in Hanoi and the remainder in the northern province of Thai Nguyen. They all returned from Japan and were put into isolation immediately upon arrival. The three new patients are now receiving treatment at local hospitals after they were confirmed to carry the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
So far the country recorded a total of 1,570 local infections and 1,126 imported ones.
2,429 out of the total positive cases have been declared to be clear of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the COVID-19 related death toll stays unchanged at 35.
Among those still under treatment, a total of 50 have tested negative for anti-COVID- groups at least once.
As many as 37,938 people are being quarantined throughout the country for medical observation after having close contact with positive COVID-19 patients or entering Vietnam from pandemic-hit regions.
According to the National Expanded Immunization Programme, more than 58,240 frontline medical workers along with members of community-based anti-COVID- groups had been injected with the COVID-19 vaccine across 19 provinces and centrally-run cities nationwide.
