Three more patients have tested positive for coronavirus in Viet Nam, bringing the total number of Viet Nam's cases to 352 people, according to Viet Nam's National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control figures released on 24 June evening.

Vietnamese citizens returning from abroad are taken to a designated quarantine facility (Photo: VNA)

The Committee said all new cases were all imported, meaning they are Vietnamese citizens returning from Kuwait, and they were quarantined after entering Viet Nam.

The new positive cases are a 36-year-old man, a resident of Hung Ha district in the northern province of Thai Binh, and two women, aged 46 and 30, both from the central province of Thanh Hoa.

The three patients arrived on two separate repatriation flights from Kuwait, man landing at Ho Chi Minh City-based Tan Son Nhat International Airport on June 16, and two women entering Viet Nam at Noi Bai International Airport in Ha Noi two days later.

All of them tested positive for coronavirus on 18 June. The man is being treated at Ba Ria Hospital in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau and the two women at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases No. 2 in Ha Noi’s Dong Anh district.

Latest update from Viet Nam's National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control states that on 25 June morning, no-one in Viet Nam were positive for the potentially deadly virus. It means the total number of cases in the country still stands at 352, with no deaths.

Viet Nam has seen no new locally transmitted cases for 70 straight days.

In total, 212 of the confirmed cases were overseas arrivals, and they were quarantined on arrival.

Statistics released by the Committee show that Viet Nam has seen 329 people recover from the deadly illness. This means the percentage of patients who have recovered from the coronavirus in the country currently reaches 93.5.

There are 23 Covid-19 patients currently in hospitals nationwide, of whom, two tested negative for the virus once, and test results came back negative for three others at least twice.

Currently, 9,437 people who are close contacts of coronavirus carriers and arrivals from pandemic-hit areas are under medical monitoring or quarantine across the country.

Source: VNA/ DA NANG Today