A health worker takes care of a COVID-19 patient in Vietnam (Photo: VNA)August 27, raising the national count to 1,036, announced the National Steering
Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
One
of them was an imported case who was sent to a
in the south central province of Khanh Hoa upon arrival. The female patient
returned home from Taiwan (China) on the VJ2849 flight of budget carrier Vietjet
Air on August 7.
The
other was a resident of the central city of Da Nang, the country’s largest
outbreak. He had close contact with recently-detected COVID-19 patients.
Of
the total COVID-19 cases in Vietnam, 688 were locally-transmitted ones. The
number of infections linked to since July 25 has surged to 548.
Meanwhile,
five patients were given the all-clear on August 27, lifting the recoveries to
636. The related fatalities have risen to 30.
Among
those still under treatment, 41 have tested negative once for SARS-CoV-2 that
causes COVID-19, 52 twice and 51 three times.
As
many as 70,916 people who had close contact with confirmed cases or arrived from
pandemic-hit regions are under quarantine at present./.
Source: VietnamPlus
