A group of people return home after finishing their quarantine period in HCM City.(Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – No new
cases of infections were reported on April 8 evening in Vietnam, leaving the
national total at 251, according to the National Steering Committee on COVID-19
Prevention and Control.
The committee said two new
were confirmed on the same day morning. One is a 50-year-old
woman who lives in Ha Loi village, Me Linh commune, in Hanoi’s outlying district.
She is a neighbour of the 243rd patient, and the two had been in
close contacts.
The other is a
64-year-old man who lives in Binh Nghia commune, Binh Luc district
in the northern province of Ha Nam. Since March 20, he has been treated at the
Department of Gastroenterology in Ha Nam General Hospital where his son and daughter-in-law,
who live in Hanoi, had been taking care of him.
The man tested positive for
COVID-19 on April 7. The source of his infection is under investigation.
There are currently 74,626
people in quarantine.
Also on April 8, four more COVID-19 patients recovered and were discharged from hospitals, lifting the country’s total number of recoveries to
126.
Two of the discharged
patients are South Africans, while the other two are Vietnamese
nationals./.
Source: VietnamPlus
