Eight more COVID-19 patients given all-clear

Hanoi (VNA) – Eight more
COVID-19 patients have been given the all-clear, bringing the total number of
cured patients to 241, the treatment sub-section under the National Steering
Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control said on May 8 afternoon.  

Among the newly recovered patients,
one was treated at the Traditional Medicine-Function Rehabilitation Hospital of
the south-central province of Binh Thuan, and seven at the second branch of the
Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi.

Those patients will continue to be
quarantined and have their health monitored in the next 14 days.

Vietnam had recorded no new infections
in community in COVID-19 for 22 consecutive days as of the morning of May 8.

There were 17 new imported cases on
May 7, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 288, with
zero fatalities.

 All of the new reported on May 7
evening are Vietnamese nationals returning from the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
on a Vietnam Airlines flight. They include a new born baby./.