Tests in Da Nang on 10,876 candidates who will sit for the upcoming second phase of Viet Nam's national senior high school graduation exams for the new strain of coronavirus have come back negative, Da Nang Department of Education and Training Director Le Thi Bich Thuan said on Tuesday morning.

The taking of swab samples for Covid-19 testing from the examinees in progress (Picture taken in the Tran Phu Senior High School on Monday)

Director Thuan said nearly 11,000 candidates across the city, plus 41 immigrant ones stranded in the city, will sit for the upcoming event which is scheduled to take place between 2 and 4 September at 25 designated examination venues citywide.

Today, 1 September, all exam supervisors and related persons involved in the upcoming seminal event, along with some candidates who have yet to be tested for the virus, will be taken swap samples for Covid-19 testing.

By NGOC PHU - Translated by M.D