A passenger has body temperature checked before coming into a bus station in Hanoi (Photo: VNA) including 40 domestic and six imported cases, in the past 12 hours to 6pm on
May 7, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said.
The domestic infections were detected in the capital city of
Hanoi (24), the northern provinces of Hai Duong (1), Dien Bien (1), Ha Nam (1),
Hung Yen (4), Nam Dinh (1), Phu Tho (1), Vinh Phuc (1) and central province of Nghe
An (1) and central Da Nang city (5).
The new patients brought the total number of infections in
Vietnam to 3,137, including 1,731 domestic cases. Of them, 161 cases have been
discovered since the latest outbreak hit the country on April 27.
According to the MoH’s Medical Service Administration, as many as
42,293 people who had close contact with confirmed patients or entered Vietnam
from pandemic-hit regions are currently quarantined across the country,
including 685 in hospitals, 22,810 in state-designated establishments and
18,998 at their places of residence.
Among active patients undergoing treatment, 24 tested negative
to coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 once, 12 twice and 38 thrice./.
Source: VietnamPlus
