Vietnam goes through 45 days without community infections
No new COVID-19 case was recorded in Vietnam overnight, leaving the total at 328 as of 6am on May 31, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
Vietnamese citizens repatriated from the Republic of Korea arrive at a quarantine facility of Da Nang city's Military High Command on May 27 (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – No new COVID-19 case was recorded in Vietnam overnight,leaving the total at 328 as of 6am on May 31, according to the NationalSteering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
Vietnam has gone through 45 days in a row without communitytransmission.
Among the 328 cases confirmed so far, 188 were imported.
A total of 279 COVID-19 patients or 85 percent have fullyrecovered, while the remaining 49 are being treated at central and provincialhealth facilities in a stable condition. Of those, nine have testednegative for SARS-CoV-2 once, and 17 negative at least twice.
As many as 7,870 people who had close contact with COVID-19 patients orreturned from pandemic-hit areas are under health monitoring, of whom 69 werequarantined at hospitals, 6,870 at other concentrated facilities and 931 athome and place of residence./.
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No new COVID-19 case was detected from 6am to 6pm on May 30, leaving the total at 328, the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control said.
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Despite the ongoing global circulation and unpredictable developments of SARS-CoV-2, the World Health Organisation (WHO) hasn’t issued new warnings about COVID-19, said the Ministry of Health.
Vietnamese citizens repatriated from the Republic of Korea arrive at a quarantine facility of Da Nang city's Military High Command on May 27 (Photo: VNA) 
