Vietnam confirms five new COVID-19 cases

Of
the three community cases, patient 785 is a 42-year-old man living in Duc Thuong commune, Hoai Duc district, Hanoi.

He
and his family travelled to Da Nang city
between July 16 and 20. On August 3, he started to develop a cough and was
taken to the National Hospital of Tropical
Diseases’ branch 2 in Dong Anh district on August 6.

He
was tested and results released on August
7 showed that he was positive for the SARS-CoV-2.

Two
other community cases in the central province of Quang Ngai are people who came into close contact
with the other patients carrying the virus.

The
two imported cases are citizens who were repatriated from Mexico transiting Japan on August 5. They are both being treated at Khanh Hoa Tropical Diseases Hospital.

There
has now been 789 people testing positive for COVID-19 since the first case
was detected in January. Of those, 316 returned to Vietnam from other countries and territories.

Since
July 25 when community infections resurged in Da Nang, 333 people connected to
the central city have tested positive.

There
are currently 166,521 people
nationwide,
including 6,939 at hospitals, 24,446
at other concentrated quarantine facilities and 135,146 at their homes.

Out
of the total number of people who have contracted the virus, 395 or 50.1 percent have made full recovery, and
to date, there have been 10 fatalities./.