A medical workers is spraying a residential area in Binh Thuan province with disinfectant. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The said late March 12
that five more people had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, taking the total number
of cases in the country so far to 44.
The new patients are among the 56 people whose samples were sent
to the in the central province of Khanh Hoa on
March 12, as they had close contact with COVID-19 patients detected in central
Binh Thuan province on March 10-11, according to the ministry.
Among the five new cases, a two-year-old girl, a 59-year-old man
and a 28-year-old man, all live in Binh Thuan’s Phan Thiet city, had close
contact with the 34th patient – a
51-year-old Vietnamese woman who tested positive on March 10.
The two others are a 47-year-old woman in Phan Thiet city, who had
close contact with the 38th patient, and a 13-year-old boy in Ham
Thuan Bac district, Binh Thuan province, who had contact with the 37th patient.
Of the 44 cases reported in Vietnam so far, 16 had made complete
recovery./.
Source: VietnamPlus
