Five Vietnamese citizens returning from Ukraine, including a four-year old, have raised Vietnam’s Covid-19 tally to 1,059.
All five patients had landed September 1 at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport on Vietnam Airlines flight VN28. They were quarantined on arrival in southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, where they are being treated now.
They tested negative for the novel coronavirus on September 3 and positive on Wednesday.
“Patient 1,055” is a 60-year old man from Nam Sach District in the northern province of Hai Duong; “Patient 1,056” a 11-year-old boy residing in Hanoi’s Hai Ba Trung District; “Patient 1,057” a 30-year-old man from Thuan Thanh District in the northern province of Bac Ninh; “Patient 1,058” is a 4-year-old girl from Hanoi’s Son Tay District; and “Patient 1,059” a 37-year-old woman from Binh Giang District, Hai Duong Province.
With the five new cases, Vietnam’s Covid-19 tally has gone up to 1,059 with 890 recoveries and 35 deaths.
Twenty-one people were confirmed Covid-19 free on Wednesday.
Of the total number of cases, 691 were locally transmitted, including 551 since July 25 when community transmissions resurfaced in Vietnam after more than three months.
Among the active patients, 50 people have tested negative at least once. Six people are in critical condition.
Vietnam has gone six days without a domestic infection.
Over 37,000 people are in isolation, 13,000 of them in quarantine facilities, 800 in hospitals and the rest at home.
Worldwide, more than 880,000 people have died of Covid-19.
This article was originally published in Vnexpress
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Source: Vietnam Insider