Vietnam reports six new imported COVID-19 cases

The new patients included five Vietnamese citizens returning
home from Poland and Germany, and one Japanese expert.

Of the total, 693 are domestically-transmitted cases,
including 553 infections since the pandemic broke out in the central city of Da
Nang on July 25, according to the National Steering Committee for
Prevention and Control.

The subcommittee for treatment reported that 12 more
patients have given the all-clear from coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, taking the total
number of recoveries to 1,281. Meanwhile, the number of deaths related to the
disease remained at 35.

Among the patients undergoing treatment across the
country, six people tested negative for the virus once, 10 twice and four
thrice.

As many as 16,360 people who had close contact with
COVID-19 patients or entered Vietnam from pandemic-hit regions are currently
quarantined nationwide, including 187 in hospitals, 15,038  in concentrated quarantine establishments and
the remainders at their residences./.