Collecting samples for testing (Source: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – documented 24 new cases of
COVID-19 over the past 12 hours to 6am on May 21, the said.
Of the domestically-transmitted cases, 15 were found in Bac
Giang province, one in the neighbouring province of Bac Ninh, six in Dien Bien
province, and three in Hai Duong province.
The latest cases brought the national count of domestic
infections to 3,355. A total of 1,785 cases have been detected since the fourth
wave of the pandemic hit the country on April 27.
The number of recoveries and fatalities remained at 2,689
and 39, respectively.
Among the patients under treatment, 63 have tested negative
for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 once, 34 twice, and 23 thrice.
As many as 129,502 people who came into close contact with
COVID-19 patients or entered Vietnam from pandemic-hit areas are now under
medical monitoring nationwide.
On May 20, 4,897 more people were vaccinated. As of 4 pm on
the day, more than 1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines had been injected in
the nation./.
Source: VietnamPlus
