Da Nang confirmed 19 COVID-19 cases on Saturday, September 11, of which, 5 were in found in the city’s designated quarantine facilities, 4 were self-isolating at home, 8 were identified in locked down areas and the remaining 2 were found in the community.

The total 2 community transmission cases were detected via the ongoing the ‘one door- one test’ campaign with testing applied to household representatives across the city, living in residential group No. 130, Hoa Minh Ward, Lien Chieu District.

The sources of infection linked to the duo now remain unknown.

The infection cluster linked to the ‘one door- one test’ campaign is now still at a high risk of further COVID-19 spread with 10 cases documented on Saturday.

As calculated, out the total 19 locally-acquired cases, 7 were documented in Thanh Khe District, 5 in Lien Chieu District, 4 in Hai Chau District and one each in Son Tra and Ngu Hanh Son districts.

Notably, Hoa Vang and Cam Le districts saw no new positive case today.

Currently, there are 20 out of the total 56 wards and communes across the city without community-acquired cases for 14 consecutive days, namely the communes of Hoa Bac, Hoa Khuong, Hoa Tien, Hoa Phu, Hoa Lien, Hoa Nhon, Hoa Phong, Hoa Phuoc in Hoa Vang District, the wards of An Hai Bac, Man Thai, An Hai Tay, Phuoc My, Nai Hien Dong and Tho Quang in Son Tra District, the wards of My An and Hoa Quy in Ngu Hanh Son District, and the wards of Phuoc Ninh, Nam Duong and Hai Chau 1 wards in Hai Chau District and Hoa Khe Ward in Thanh Khe District.

The city’s COVID-19 infection tally in the ongoing wave has hit 4,549 since July 10.

Reporting by PHAN CHUNG – Translating by A.T