Two new COVID-19 cases reported on March 16 morning

Taking sample for COVID-19 testing (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA)
– Vietnam documented two new COVID-19 cases in the northern province of Hai
Duong in the past 12 hours to 6am on March 16, bringing the national tally to
2,559, the Ministry of Health announced.

The patients were
detected in Kim Dinh commune of the province’s Kim Thanh district. Both of them
had been previously put under quarantine and are now treated at a COVID-19
treatment hospital in Hai Duong.

The country has recorded
1,596 , including 903 cases since the latest
outbreak hit and some other northern localities on January
27.

As many as 39,613
people who came in close contact with COVID-19 patients or arrived from
are under quarantine nationwide, including 503 in hospitals,
16,056 in other quarantine sites, and 23,054 at their residences.

The Treatment
Sub-committee under the National Steering Committee for Prevention and
Control said that 2,115 patients have been declared to be clear of the coronavirus
SARS-CoV-2 so far.

Among the patients
under treatment, 42 have tested negative for the virus once, 22 twice, and 110
thrice.

According to the Expanded
National Immunisation Programme, a total of 15,865 frontline medical workers
and members of community-based anti-COVID-19 groups in Vietnam had been
injected with COVID-19 vaccine as of March 15. The country began its COVID-19
inoculation campaign on March 8.

In a bid to live
safely with the pandemic, people should strictly follow the Ministry of
Health’s 5K message: khau trang (facemask), khu khuan (disinfection), khoang
cach (distance), khong tu tap (no gathering) and khai bao y te (health
declaration)./.