Vietnam reports three new imported COVID-19 cases

The new patients included
a 35-year-old woman and her 10-year-old son and 9-year-old daughter in Khuong
Mai ward of Hanoi’s Thanh Xuan district, said the National Steering Committee
for Prevention and Control.

They returned to Vietnam
from France on flight VN5010 on November 11 and have been quarantined right
after their arrival at Ho Chi Minh City-based Tan Son Nhat International
Airport.

The patients are now
quarantined and treated at Cu Chi COVID-19 treatment hospital in HCM City.

Also on November 13,
eight more patients were given the all-clear from the disease, raising the
total of recoveries to 1,101, according to the subcommittee for treatment.

There are now no
COVID-19 patients in critical condition while the number of deaths related to
the pandemic is still kept at 35.

Among those still under treatment, 18
tested negative once for novel coronavirus , which causes the
disease, 10 twice and 11 thrice.

Vietnam has gone
through 72 consecutive days without infections in the community despite
complicated developments of the pandemic around the world.

As many as 15,280
people who had close contact with COVID-19 patients and entered Vietnam from
pandemic-hit regions are being quarantined across the country, including 218 in
hospitals, 14,071 in concentrated quarantine establishments and 991 others at
their residences./.