Tests on all people selected from 10,346 families across the districts of Son Tra, Thanh Khe and Lien Chieu in Da Nang came back negative for the coronavirus, doctor Ton That Thanh, the Director of the Da Nang Centre for Disease Control (CDC) announced on Friday morning.

Swap sample collecting in progress in Son Tra District

The taking of swab samples from these people was conducted on Thursday by local medical workers. Each family was required to select one member aged 18 or above for Covid-19 mass testing.

In the coming days, medical workers will continue collecting swab samples from the remaining local families whose members have yet to be tested for Covid-19.

The city’s testing programmes are scaled up in a bid to detect any virus carriers in the community, especially those who appear to show no clinical symptoms, thereby achieving the elimination of the virus in the city.

The recovered people were discharged from the Lung Hospital on Friday morning.

In another positive news, the Da Nang-based Lung Hospital recorded an additional five coronavirus recovered on Friday morning, bringing the total to 252 recoveries since a second wave of Covid-19 infections hit the city late July, the municipal Department of Health announced.

By XUAN SON, XUAN DUNG- Translated by A.T