One new COVID-19 case in the community was reported in Da Nang on Sunday, October 31, the municipal Steering Board for COVID-19 Prevention and Control said in its latest bulletin.

The community-acquired patient is permanent resident from Khue My Ward, Ngu Hanh Son District. The patient returned from coronavirus-stricken Ho Chi Minh City on October 28 on flight QH172.

The patient received the first dose of AstraZeneca vaccine on September 18. On October 30, he was confirmed to be infected with SARS-CoV-2 via a Realtime RT-PCR tested conducted by the Da Nang Centre for Disease Control.

There were also three cases found in managed isolation on Sunday, of which two were the drivers of freight transport vehicles on route from Ho Chi Minh City to Da Nang. They tested positive for the coronavirus via mandatory rapid antigen testing whilst passing through a quarantine checkpoint set up at the Da Nang gateway and he was confirmed to contract the virus after a confirmation test conducted by the RT-PCR technique. The remaining one was detected in local centralised quarantine facility as a close coronavirus contact.

Also on Sunday, Da Nang handled 17 returnees from other pandemic-struck localities nationwide. Currently, 20 returnees are undergoing mandatory quarantine at the local authorities- designated centralised facilities whilst 723 others are self-quarantining at home.

The city now has four blockaded sites, putting 56 households with a combined total of 198 people under lockdown. Of them, 79 residents belonging to 18 sealed-off families are logged in Hai Chau District, whilst the rest are identified in Thanh Khe District.

A combined total of 231 people are put under compulsory quarantine in eight centralised facilities.

Up to now, 1,074,837 out of the already received 1,124,856 COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered to Da Nang residents.

Of the vaccinated people throughout Da Nang, 858,282 have received the first shots of COVID-19 vaccines whilst 216, 555 have got the second jabs against the highly contagious disease.

In all, 4 coronavirus cases were reported on Sunday, taking Da Nang’s total to 4,721 since July 10 when the current COVID-19 wave started here.

Reporting by PHAN CHUNG- Translating by A. THU