The COVID-19 testing system at the Centre for Disease Control in northern Quang Ninh province (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA)
– Two returning from were confirmed positive for SARS-CoV-2
that causes late April 24, bringing the total cases in Vietnam to
270, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and
Control.
The students arrived
in Vietnam on April 22 on Flight VN311. Upon entry at Van Don airport in the
northern province of Quang Ninh, they were taken to a concentrated quarantine
facility in northern Thai Binh province.
The 269th
patient is a 23-year-old man from Huong Mai commune, Viet Yen district,
northern Bac Giang province.
The 270th
patient is a 22-year-old woman from Tien Dung commune, Yen Dung district, Bac Giang province.
On April 22,
the two patients were tested for SARS-CoV-2 by the Centre for Disease
Control (CDC) of Thai Binh province. The results showed they were suspected to be infected with the virus and then were transferred to Thai
Binh General Hospital for quarantine.
On April 24,
the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology confirmed the samples were
positive for the virus.
At
present, the two patients are being treated at the National Hospital for
Tropical Diseases in Hanoi’s outskirts district of Dong Anh.
As many as 68,890 are under health monitoring
or quarantine, of them 352 are kept at hospitals, 17,832 in concentrated quarantine facilities, and 50,706 others at home.
On the same day, the
247th patient was announced to fully recover at the Lung Hospital in southern Dong
Nai province.
Fifteen cases tested negative
for the virus once and two negative twice and above./.
Source: VietnamPlus
