Overall number climbs to 1,074 after five imported cases confirmed
VOV.VN - Vietnam recorded an additional five new cases of COVID-19, all imported, bringing the national infection tally to 1,074, the Ministry of Health reported on September 27.
The new cases are Vietnamese citizens who entered Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport from France on VN5010 on September 25.
They were immediately placed into isolation in the southern province of Binh Duong after entry, and tested for the SARS-CoV-2 virus by the Pasteur Institute in HCM City, with the results coming back positive the following day.
The new cases have brought the nation’s tally of coronavirus infections to 1,074, of whom 691 cases are locally transmitted, and 383 are imported ones.
Notably, the overall number of people who have now beaten the virus amounted to 1,000, while the total figure for cases related to the outbreak in the central city of Da Nang since the resurgence of the disease in late July remains unchanged at 551.
More than 16,000 people who had close contact with COVID-19 patients or entered Vietnam from pandemic-hit regions are being quarantined nationwide, including over 200 at hospitals, and the remainder at concentrated quarantine establishments and at home.
Among the active patients in treatment, 3 tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 once, 4 twice and 12 thrice.
The country has so far recorded 35 fatalities relating to COVID-19, mostly of them were elderly people with serious underlying diseases.
