Vietnam reports six more Covid-19 patients Tuesday evening, four community infections in Da Nang and two returnees from Taiwan and Equatorial Guinea.
“Patient 984” is the Taiwanese returnee. The 45-year-old man got back in Vietnam on August 7. After landing in Cam Ranh International Airport in central Khanh Hoa Province, he was sent to a quarantine camp and later tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
Patients 985-988 are all local residents contracting the disease in Da Nang, the biggest outbreak in the country.
Patient 989 is a 35-year-old man repatriated from Equatorial Guinea last month.
Covid-19 resurfaced in Vietnam on July 25, when the country recorded the first community transmission case after more than three months, in Da Nang.
Since then, 509 locally transmitted cases have been counted, including 354 in Da Nang and 94 in its neighbor Quang Nam Province.
Acting Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long told a meeting on Tuesday that “The outbreak in Da Nang and Quang Nam Province is under control.”
He said all methods, including aggressive contact tracing and isolation, are proving effective, and that the number of community infections recorded each day from this outbreak is on the fall.
On Tuesday, Vietnam declared 59 people Covid-19 free, 19 of them Vietnamese repatriates and the rest recorded locally in Da Nang, Quang Nam and Hue.
For now, Vietnam has reported 989 cases of Covid-19, 520 of them have recovered, 444 are still in hospitals and 25 have died, including one on Tuesday morning.
Around the world, more than 22 million have been infected with the new coronavirus and over 778,100 have died.
The article was originally published in Vnexpress
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Source: Vietnam Insider