Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam on July 6evening confirmed 14 more cases positive for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)and all of them are imported and quarantined upon arrival, according to the NationalSteering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
Thenew patients, including 12 males and two females, returned home from Bangladeshvia Van Don airport in the northern province of Quang Ninh on July 3 and were immediatelyput into quarantine at a military camp in Bim Son town, the central province ofThanh Hoa.
At present, they are being treated at the National Hospital for TropicalDiseases No. 2 in Dong Anh, Hanoi.
By6pm on July 6, Vietnam recorded a total of 369 COVID-19 infections, including229 imported ones. The country has gone through 81 consecutive days withoutlocal transmissions.
On the same day, two patients were declared fully recovered, raising the totalrecoveries to 342 or 92.7 percent. They are Patient 239, who is a 22-year-oldVietnamese man, and Patient 91, the British pilot.
Currently12,291 people who had contact with COVID-19 patients and returned home frompandemic-hit areas are being quarantined either at hospitals, concentratedestablishments or at home./.
VNA
