Health workers collect samples for COVID-19 testing (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – There are no new COVID-19 cases
reported in Vietnam overnight by April 29 morning, keeping the total at 270 and
marking the 13th straight day without patients infected with the novel
coronavirus in the community.
However, Case 151, who was earlier given the
all-clear, tested positive again on April 28, according to the national
steering committee for prevention and control.
She is the wife of Case 207. Both were
previously discharged from hospital and quarantined at home for an additional
14 days. However, when her husband was found to relapse into the disease on
April 27, she was immediately sent to the COVID-19 hospital in Cu Chi district
of Ho Chi Minh City.
Although the test result on April 27 showed that
she was negative, another test on the next day indicated she was positive
again.
Among the 270 cases, 130 are imported cases and
have been quarantined upon their arrival in Vietnam. As many as 221 of all the
patients have fully recovered.
Of the 49 patients still under treatment, 11
have tested negative for the once and eight
negative at least twice.
Meanwhile, 42,057 people who have close contact
with confirmed patients or returned from other countries are currently kept in
quarantine, including 323 at hospitals, 6,643 at other
and 35,091 at home./.
Source: VietnamPlus
