As of 4.30 pm on 15 May, the number of confirmed coronavirus (known as Covid-19) cases around the world has jumped to 4,542,388.

Twenty four people returning to Viet Nam on a flight from Russia have tested positive for Covid-19, the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control announced on Friday morning. The total number of infections in Viet Nam since the first on January 23, now stands at 312, with 172 of those imported cases from overseas. The country’s total recovered cases now stand at 260 after eight Vietnamese patients with Covid-19 have recovered on Thursday afternoon.

Thus far six people have been diagnosed with the disease in Da Nang, and all of them have been cleared of the virus.

  Designed by THANH HUYEN - Translated by MAI DUNG