Repartriated overseas Vietnamese enter a quarantine site in Hoa Binh province (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam recorded 12 new imported COVID-19 cases on November 18 who were
put into quarantine right after their arrival in the country.
The new patients, all
Vietnamese, brought the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Vietnam to
1,300, said the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and
Control.
Among those, 691 are
, including 551 infections related to the outbreak
in the central city of Da Nang since July 25.
Vietnam has to date
gone through 77 consecutive days without transmissions in the community.
The subcommittee for treatment
reported that as many as 1,124 patients have been successfully treated
while the number of death related to the disease is still kept at 35.
Of the patients
undergoing treatment, eight people tested negative for SARS-CoV-2
once, 11 others twice and 15 thrice. There are now no patients in critical
conditions.
A total of 16,399
people who had close contact with COVID-19 patients or entered Vietnam from
pandemic-hit regions are being quarantined across the country, including 206 in
hospitals, 15,308 in other concentrated quarantine establishments and 885 at
their residences./.
Source: VietnamPlus
