With no new cases of Covid-19 reported on Thursday morning, Viet Nam has now gone four weeks in a row with no cases of community transmission.

Dong Cuu villagers celebrate as the lockdown order is lifted on Thursday morning

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 Ha Noi.

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 centralised 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 Viet Nam from Russia on Wednesday via Van Don Airport in Quang Ninh Province.

Source: VNS/ DA NANG Today