Vietnam has now gone four weeks in a row without any community transmissions of the disease

With no new cases of COVID-19 reported on Thursday morning (May 14), Vietnam has now gone four weeks in a row without any community transmissions.

Earlier this month on May 3, 17 people onboard a flight bringing Vietnamese home from the UAE did test positive for coronavirus, but they were all immediately quarantined on arrival.

The last person to contract the virus on a community level was a 36-year-old woman from Thuong Tin District’s Dong Cuu Village on the outskirts of Hanoi.

The entire village was locked-down by the authorities for one month and at the stroke of midnight on Thursday the barriers were lifted allowing the 1,200 residents to leave.

As of Thursday morning, of the 36 COVID-19 patients undergoing treatment at medical facilities nationwide, 11 have tested negative to the virus at least twice and six others once.

More than 13,700 people are being isolated at centralized quarantine camps, hospitals or at their homes.

A British pilot remains in a critical condition in hospital in need of lung transplant.

More than 340 Vietnamese nationals mostly children under the age of 18, the elderly, sick people, tourists and people whose visas had expired returned to Việt Nam from Russia on Wednesday via Van Don Airport in Quang Ninh Province. — VNS

Featured photo: Newborn baby Phuc An, wearing a protective face shield, is seen before leaving home for his vaccination, during the #coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Hanoi, Vietnam April 13, 2020.

Phuc An was born at Vinmec hospital in Hanoi on April 1, when the Southeast Asian country started strict restrictions on movement to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic that has infected more than 3 million people worldwide.

The three-week lockdown put most of the social and economic activities throughout the country on hold, but life must go on, and giving birth couldn’t be delayed.

By REUTERS/Kham