No new COVID-19 cases in community for 32 consecutive days

Vietnamese citizens returning from Singapore are quarantined in Soc Trang province (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam had no new s to report on
October 4 afternoon, marking the 32nd consecutive day without infections in the
community, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention
and Control.
 
The country has to date confirmed 1,096 COVID-19 cases, including 691
local s and the rest are imported, it further said.
  
Among the patients undergoing treatment, one has tested negative for the novel
coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 once, two twice and four thrice.

So far, 1,020 patients have been successfully treated and there are now no
patients in critical conditions.

The death toll from the disease remained at 35, most of them elderly people
with serious underlying conditions.

As many as 16,447 people who had close contacts with COVID-19 patients or
entered Vietnam from pandemic-hit regions are being quarantined across the county,
including 718 in hospitals, 11,212 in concentrated quarantine establishments,
and 4,547 at home./.