Da Nang has once again squelched COVID-19, bringing its local cases down to zero as reported over recent days, and today, October 18, also saw zero coronavirus cases, the municipal Steering Board of COVID-19 Prevention and Control said.

Also on the same day, a combined total of 4, 359 local residents across the city had their nasal swab samples taken for COVID-19 testing, 3,138 of whom tested for the virus via the RT-PCR technique whilst the rest were subject to the rapid antigen testing.

Today, Da Nang received 87 returnees from other pandemic-struck localities nationwide, all of whom were put under mandatory quarantine in line with the regulations.

Currently, 67 returnees are undergoing mandatory quarantine at the local authorities- designated centralised facilities whilst 647 others are self-quarantining at home.

A combined total of 342 people are now subject to compulsory quarantine in 14 centralised facilities.

Till date, all of the total 56 communes and wards citywide have been labelled as ‘green zones’ where neither community-acquired cases nor locked-down sites have been logged over the past 14 days.

Up to now, 974,230 out of the already received 1,007,856 COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered to Da Nang residents.

Of the vaccinated people through out Da Nang, 126,605 have received a full 2-dose course of COVID-19 vaccines.

Since July 10 when the current COVID-19 wave started in Da Nang, its caseload tally has remained 4,682.

Reporting by LE HUNG - Translating by A.THU