Three Vietnamese people who recently returned from abroad have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, raising the total number of patients in the country to 2,784, the Ministry of Health reported on Sunday evening.
According to the ministry’s report, the newly-reported patients include two men and a woman aged between 23-51 who returned from Japan, Angola, and the US. They were sent to quarantine areas in Khanh Hoa, Hoa Binh, and Bac Ninh provinces upon arrival and are now being treated at local hospitals and healthcare centres.
With these new infection cases, the number of Covid-19 patients in Vietnam has increased to 2,784, including 910 locally-transmitted cases reported since the new outbreak started in Hai Duong on January 28.
As of 6 pm on April 18, a total of 2,475 Covid-19 patients had recovered and been discharged from hospital. There have been 35 deaths, most of them being the elderly with serious underlying diseases.
At present, over 40,000 people who had close contact with Covid-19 patients or returned from virus-hit areas are being monitored at hospitals, quarantine facilities, and at home.
This article was originally published in Dtinews
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Source: Vietnam Insider