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Hanoi (VNA) – No new case was confirmed on May 21, marking the 35th straight day Vietnam has gone without community
transmission, the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and
Control reported.
The national tally stands at 324, including 184
imported cases that were quarantined upon arrival, according to the committee.
Two patients were discharged from the National
Hospital for Tropical Diseases after making complete recovery on the day. One of
them is a 44-year-old woman, a staff member of Truong Sinh Ltd., Co., whose test
result turned positive after she recovered on April 16. The other is from Ha
Loi village, Me Linh commune, Hanoi.
A total of 266 out of 324 patients have recovered as
updated on May 21 evening. The remainder are being treated at nine national and
provincial medial facilities, with four testing negative once for SARS-CoV-2,
the novel coronavirus that causes the acute respiratory disease, and four
negative at least twice.
Nearly 12,990 people who had close contact with
COVID-19 patients or returned from pandemic-hit areas are under health
monitoring, of whom 307 stay at hospitals, 7,663 at other concentrated
facilities and 5,047 at home and place of residence./.
Source: VietnamPlus
