As of 5.00 pm on 6 May, the number of confirmed coronavirus (known as Covid-19) cases around the world has jumped to 3,743,654.

Viet Nam has entered its twentieth straight day with no cases of community transmission, the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control announced on Wednesday. The number of confirmed cases in the country remains at 271, of whom 131 were imported cases who were quarantined upon arrival. A total of 232 patients have recovered or been discharged from hospital till date while the remainder are being treated at centrally-run and provincial medical facilities. Most of them are in stable conditions.

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