Vietnam reports 37 more COVID-19 infection cases

Of them, 26 are imported cases who have been put under
quarantine following their arrival, three in Ho Chi Minh City and eight in the
central province of Quang Nam.

Among the imported cases, six patients are Vietnamese crewmembers
of a gas tanker that entered Vung Tau port on July 28 after travelling to
Qatar, India and Singapore.

The remaining imported cases were flown from Equatorial
Guinea on Vietnam Airlines’ flight VN6 which landed at Noi Bai International Airport
in Hanoi on July 29.

Vietnam has so far confirmed 546 infections, 302 of them are
imported cases and 104 others related to the outbreak in central Da Nang city since
July 25.

On July 31, the country reported its first -related
death, a 70-year-old man with multiple comorbidities.

The same day, four people were given the all-clear of the
virus at the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases in Hanoi’s Dong Anh
district, raising the total number of recoveries to 373, accounting for 68.3
percent.

As many as 53,767 people who had close contact with COVID-19
patients or entered from pandemic-hit areas are under quarantine, including 619
in hospitals, 38,625 in concentrated quarantine facilities and 38,523 at
home./.