Quang Ninh has no COVID-19 cases in community in 11 days

A post for COVID-19 quarantine in Quang Ninh (Photo: VNA)

Quang Ninh (VNA) – The northern province of has gone through 11 straight days
with no COVID-19  infections in the
community, and  four consecutive days without any s.

As of February 19,
only 20 cases out of the 43 infections in Quang Ninh had tested positive
for SARS-CoV-2 virus.

From February 14 -18, 15 cases were cured in the locality.

Since the first case
of COVID-19 in the community confirmed on January 27, the locality has recorded 60 infections, of which two
cases are being quarantined and treated at the Central Hospital of Tropical Diseases in Hanoi’s outlying district of Dong Anh,  and the rest are treated in health facicalities
in Quang Ninh.

Regarding testing, more
than 136,000 locals have been tested from January 27 to February 19.

Provincial authorities
on February 8 announced that the
pandemic was kept under control in the
locality.

Vietnam has no new COVID-19 cases to report
in the past 12 hours to 6am of February 20, while the number of recoveries is
1,627, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and
Control.

So far, the
country has seen 1,463 locally-transmitted cases,
including 775 cases found since January 27 when a new COVID-19 wave broke out./.