Viet Nam's National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control on Monday morning announced two more imported Covid-19 case, bringing the country's overall tally to 331.

Medical workers spray disinfection on a bus transporting Vietnamese nationals returning from the Republic of Korea. (Photo: VNA)

 Both new cases are Vietnamese female citizens returning from Mexico who were quarantined on arrival.

The 330^th case was confirmed in a 28-year-old woman, a resident of central Ha Tinh province’s Cam Xuyen district, who is working for a company in southern Ho Chi Minh City.

The 331^st case was another 47-year-old woman who lives in HCM City’s District 5 and she works in the same company with the 330^th patient.

On March 13, the two women left for Mexico from HCM City. Due to the border closure and flight ban, they stayed in Mexico until June 4 and then took a flight to Japan the following day. They returned to Viet Nam on June 5 on the flight number VN319. After arriving at Da Nang airport, they were placed into quarantine in a designated site in Quang Nam province. They tested positive for the virus on June 7. Both are receing treatment in the Quang Nam General Hospital.

Viet Nam has gone 53 days without a domestically transmitted infection with no deaths.

Till date, 307 patients, or 93.3% of the confirmed cases have recovered.

There are 24 Covid-19 patients currently in hospitals nationwide, of whom, six tested negative for the virus once, and test results came back negative for nine others twice.

Currently, a total of 9,088 people who are close contacts of coronavirus carriers and arrivals from pandemic-hit areas are under quarantine across the country, including 72 at hospitals, 7,150 at designated sites, and 1,866 at home.

Source: VNA/ DA NANG Today