Vietnam confirms 14 more imported Covid-19 infection cases
14 people who recently returned from abroad have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, bringing the total number of Covid-19 patients in Vietnam to 369 as of Monday evening, the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control reported.
The British patient is declared fully recovered from Covid-19 on July 6.
According to the committee, the new patients, including 12 males and two females, returned home from Bangladesh via Van Don International Airport in the northern province of Quang Ninh on July 3 and were put into quarantine upon arrival at a military camp in the central province of Thanh Hoa.
They have been sent to the Hanoi-based National Hospital for Tropical Diseases for treatment.
The new patients are among 229 imported ones recorded in Vietnam so far. As of 6pm on July 6, the country has gone through 81 consecutive days without coronavirus transmissions in the community, the committee said.
On the same day, two patients were declared fully recovered including the British pilot and a Vietnamese man, raising the total recoveries to 342 or 92.7 per cent.
At present, 12,291 people, who have been in close contact with Covid-19 patients or come from virus-hit areas, are under quarantine at hospitals, centralised quarantine facilities, or at home.
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