Vietnam goes four weeks with no new COVID-19 cases

Tourists have temperature checked at the entrance of the Marble Mountains in central Da Nang city. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam has no cases to report over the last 12
hours, keeping the national tally at 1,094, the Steering Committee on COVID-19
Prevention and Control announced on September 30 morning.

The country
has gone 28 days with no new locally-transmitted infections so far.

Of the total
cases, 691 were locally transmitted, including 551 linked to outbreaks in the
central city of Da Nang since July 25.

The number of
has reached 1,007 while no patients are under critical conditions.

Among those
under treatment, one has tested negative for the virus once, three twice and 13
thrice.

remained at 35 with most of the fatalities being elderly people with serious
underlying health conditions.

More than
15,950 people having close contact with confirmed cases or coming from
pandemic-hit areas are under quarantine at present./.