Vietnam reports three new imported COVID-19 cases

Vietnam recorded three new imported COVID-19 cases on November 13 afternoon, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 1,256.
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Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam recorded three new imported COVID-19 cases on November 13afternoon, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 1,256.

The new patients includeda 35-year-old woman and her 10-year-old son and 9-year-old daughter in KhuongMai ward of Hanoi’s Thanh Xuan district, said the National Steering Committeefor COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

They returned to Vietnamfrom France on flight VN5010 on November 11 and have been quarantined rightafter their arrival at Ho Chi Minh City-based Tan Son Nhat InternationalAirport.

The patients are nowquarantined and treated at Cu Chi COVID-19 treatment hospital in HCM City.

Also on November 13,eight more patients were given the all-clear from the disease, raising thetotal of recoveries to 1,101, according to the subcommittee for treatment.

There are now noCOVID-19 patients in critical condition while the number of deaths related tothe pandemic is still kept at 35.

Among those still under treatment, 18tested negative once for novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes thedisease, 10 twice and 11 thrice.

Vietnam has gonethrough 72 consecutive days without infections in the community despitecomplicated developments of the pandemic around the world.

As many as 15,280people who had close contact with COVID-19 patients and entered Vietnam frompandemic-hit regions are being quarantined across the country, including 218 inhospitals, 14,071 in concentrated quarantine establishments and 991 others attheir residences./.
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