Vietnam reported no new Covid-19 (coronavirus) cases on Sunday evening (May 10) with its total confirmed cases remaining at 288, according to the Ministry of Health officials.
Vietnam has recorded no infection caused by community transmission for 24 consecutive days, according to the Health & Life newspaper.
Yesterday, the country recorded eight more patients recovered, bringing the total cured cases to 241.
So far, Vietnam has more than 11,000 people in quarantine, including those that have returned from abroad and those who have come in contact with the returnees. Of these, 180 are quarantined at hospitals, 6,000 stay at centralized camps and the rest at home or other accommodation facilities. VNExpress reported.
The latest Covid-19 cases confirmed in Vietnam are 17 patients on Thursday, all of whom were imported infections involving Vietnamese citizens repatriated from virus-hit areas on Vietnam Airlines flight VN0088. The flight landed at Can Tho Airport in the Mekong Delta and all passengers were quarantined at a university dorm in the nearby Bac Lieu Province.
The 17 infected are now treated at the Bac Lieu General Hospital. Crew members on the flight have also been quarantined.
According to a report on the VNExpress, Vietnam brought home 276 citizens from Canada, the third largest Covid-19 hotspot in the Americas, after the U.S. and Brazil, on a Vietnam Airlines flight Saturday.
In April and early May, Vietnam has operated 11 special flights to repatriate 1,700 citizens from Canada, Japan, France, Thailand, the U.S. and the UAE.
The pandemic has spread to 212 countries and territories, claiming the lives of more than 280,000 people.
Featured image: A Vietnamese woman riding her motorbike in Hanoi’s street @ Yu Jason
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