New COVID-19 infections number 13, including 8 from Hai Duong

A quarantine site in Hai Duong (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – logged 13 infections in the past 12 hours as
of 6pm on March 1, pushing the national tally to 2,461, according to the
National Steering Committee for .

The
country’s pandemic hotspot Hai Duong in the north hosted eight of the total new
cases, while the remaining five, all Vietnamese nationals, were imported
and quarantined upon arrivals in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang.

The
eight infections in Hai Duong are F1 cases of confirmed COVID-19 patients. Six of them
have been quarantined since January 28, and the rest since February 28. All are
now under quarantine and treatment.

Of the
total cases to date, there were 1,550 domestically-transmitted cases,
including 857 recorded since the latest outbreak hit Hai Duong and several other northern localities on January 27.

A total
60,693 people who came in close contact with COVID-19 patients or arrived from
pandemic-hit areas are under quarantine nationwide, including 560 at hospitals,
12,298 at other quarantine sites, and 47,835 at home.

Among
patients under treatment, 66 have tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 once, 37
twice, and 113 thrice.

Vietnam has seen 1,892
recoveries so far, with the death toll remaining at 35./.