The number of Covid-19 cases in Viet Nam has risen to 1,059 as five new cases of Covid-19 were reported on Thursday evening, according to figures released by Viet Nam's National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control at 6.00am on 10 September.

Four Covid-19 patients at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ha Noi's Dong Anh District were announced to make full recovery on Wednesday

However, all the five patients are oversea arrivals. Among them are a four-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy who, like the other cases, returned to Viet Nam from Ukraine on 1 September on the flight VN28 via Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCM City.

The rest of the imported cases are a 60-year-old woman from Nam Sach District, Hai Duong Province, a 30 -year-old-man and from Thuan Thanh District in Bac Ninh Province and a 37-year-old woman from Binh Giang District in Hai Duong Province.

They all tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 by the HCM City Pasteur Institute on Wednesday. Now they are being treated at the Long Dien District Medical Station in Ba Ria -Vung Tau Province.

Viet Nam has gone a week without recording a locally transmitted Covid-19 case since the second wave of  Covid-19 infections hit Da Nang in late July. 

Till date, Viet Nam has 691 locally-transmitted cases, 551 of whom are related to Da Nang since 25 July.

Twenty-one patients were given the all-clear on Wednesday in Ha Noi, Da Nang, and Bac Lieu, Dak Lak and Quang Nam provinces.

In total, 890 patients have been fully recovered from their illness. Meanwhile, 169 patients are receiving treatment in health care facilities, 16 of them tested negative for the virus once and 13 twice and 21 others thrice.

Seven Covid-19 patients are on critical conditions with high risk of death.

The country has so far reported 35 Covid-19 related deaths, the majority of the cases were the elderly with severe disease such as end-stage chronic kidney failure, cancer, sepsis and diabetes.

Currently, 36,126 people nationwide who had close contact with patients or entered from pandemic-hit areas are under quarantine, 621 of them are in hospitals, 15,874 in other establishments and 19,631 at homes.

The Health Ministry has advised the community to safely adapt with the pandemic by applying preventive measures.

The ministry also urged each Vietnamese citizen to download Bluezone app at https://www.bluezone.gov.vn to receive infection risk warnings.

Source: VNS/ VNA/ DA NANG Today