A health worker conducts COVID-19 testing (Photo: VNA)Thetwo cases in Hai Duong province are workers of the Vietnam Poyun Electronics Co. Ltd. inChi Linh city. Both of them had been previously put underquarantine and are now treated at a COVID-19 treatment hospital in Hai Duong.
Meanwhile,the 13 imported cases have been quarantined upon their arrival in northernQuang Ninh province and the southern provinces of Binh Duong and Dong Thap.
Thenew infections brought the total number of COVID-19 patients detected inVietnam so far to 2,550, including 1,592 domestically-transmitted cases. Up to899 domestically-transmitted cases have been reported since the third wave ofoutbreak hit the country on January 27.
TheTreatment Subcommittee said 38 patients have been declared to recover from thedisease, raising the total number of recoveries to 2,086. The death tollrelated to the pandemic remained at 35.
Amongactive patients undergoing treatment across the country, 48 tested negative tocoronavirus SARS-CoV-2 once, 48 twice and 91 thrice.
Thereare 44,540 people who had close contact with confirmed COVID-19 patients orentered Vietnam from pandemic-hit regions are being quarantined nationwide,including 497 in hospitals, 15,065 in state-designated establishments and28,978 at their residences./.
VNA
