Five new imported Covid-19 patients were reported on Tuesday including a father and his two-year-old son, raising Viet Nam’s caseload to 1,054.

The Tay Ninh General Hospital where three of Viet Nam's latest Covid-19 patients confirmed on Tuesday night are being treated, including a two-year-old boy.

The country’s recovered patients reached 868 as reports from the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control also said 14 people have been given the all-clear.

The five new patients were all imported cases who have been quarantined on arrival in the southern city of Can Tho and the southern province of Tay Ninh.

Two of them entered Viet Nam from the Philippines through Can Tho International Airport on a repatriation flight on Sunday. The two women, aged 51 and 28, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 on Monday and are now being treated at the Can Tho Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Hospital.

The other three patients are being treated at the Tay Ninh General Hospital. They all tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 at the end of August in the southern province of Tay Ninh, but positive on Monday at the Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute.

Two patients are a 35-year-old man and his two-year-old son, both are residents in the northern province of Lao Cai. The final patient is a 26-year-old woman from the south-central province of Khanh Hoa.

Of the recovered patients, four were from the Da Nang Hospital for Lung Diseases and four others were from the Regional Hospital in Quang Nam. Three were from the Hai Duong Hospital for Tropical Diseases, two from the Khanh Hoa Hospital for Tropical Diseases, and one from the Hue Central Hospital.

Some 37,500 people are under quarantine at home, in hospitals and in quarantine centres, while 35 have died from complications related to Covid-19.

Source: VNS/ DA NANG Today