The flight carrying 345 people back home from Moscow (Source: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Twenty four people
returning to Vietnam on a flight from have tested positive for the novel
coronavirus, raising the total to 312, the National Steering Committee for
COVID-19 Prevention and Control reported on May 15 morning.
However, local health authorities have confirmed there is no likelihood of
community transmission from the latest patients as they were all quarantined after the flight touched down at Van Don International
Airport in the northern province of Quang Ninh.
There have been no community transmissions
of the virus for 29 days and no deaths.
The new cases, aged between 24 and 47,
include one woman and 23 men. One is being treated at the Hospital No2 of Quang
Ninh and the rest are at Thai Binh province General Hospital.
The flight from Moscow landed on May 13 and
was carrying mostly children under the age of 18, students, the elderly, sick
people, tourists and people whose visas had expired but could not leave the
country.
The 345 repatriated citizens as well as the
crew from the Vietnam Airline flight were all immediately quarantined.
The country’s total recovered cases now
stand at 260 after eight patients with were declared to have recovered
on May 14 afternoon.
Of the 52 active cases including 24 new
cases, five patients have tested negative for the SARS-CoV-2 once and other
nine tested negative for the virus more than twice.
As many as 12,236 people are under
quarantine including 353 quarantined at hospitals, 8,492 at concentrated
quarantine areas and 3,391 at home. They either returned from abroad or came
into close contact with confirmed cases./.
Source: VietnamPlus
