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Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam on July 6
evening confirmed 14 more cases positive for the novel coronavirus ()
and all of them are imported and quarantined upon arrival, according to the National
Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
The
new patients, including 12 males and two females, returned home from Bangladesh
via Van Don airport in the northern province of Quang Ninh on July 3 and were immediately
put into quarantine at a military camp in Bim Son town, the central province of
Thanh Hoa.
At present, they are being treated at the National Hospital for Tropical
Diseases No. 2 in Dong Anh, Hanoi.
By
6pm on July 6, Vietnam recorded a total of 369 COVID-19 infections, including
229 imported ones. The country has gone through 81 consecutive days without
local transmissions.
On the same day, two patients were declared fully recovered, raising the total
recoveries to 342 or 92.7 percent. They are Patient 239, who is a 22-year-old
Vietnamese man, and Patient 91, the British pilot.
Currently
12,291 people who had contact with patients and returned home from
pandemic-hit areas are being quarantined either at hospitals, concentrated
establishments or at home./.
Source: VietnamPlus
