Three imported COVID-19 cases were reported on September 4 evening, including an 8-year-old boy, raising the total number of patients in Vietnam to 1,049.
Conducting health checkups for people staying at a concentrated quarantine facility (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - Three imported COVID-19 cases were reported on September 4 evening,including an 8-year-old boy, raising the total number of patients in Vietnamto 1,049.
Allof the new cases were quarantined in southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau province afterentering the country, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19Prevention and Control.
Patient1,047 is an eight-year-old boy from Duy Tien district, northern Ha Nam province.
Patient1,048 is a 35-year-old man from Phu Lo commune, Soc Son district in Hanoi.
Patient1,049 is a man, 43 years old, from Quang Phuc ward, Ba Don township in centralQuang Binh province.
Thethree new patients returned to Vietnam from Ukraine on September 1 onflight VN28. They tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 by the HCM City PasteurInstitute on September 4. Now they are under treatment at the Long Dien DistrictMedical Station in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province.
Nineteenpatients were given the all-clear on September 4 in central Da Nang city and QuangNam province.
Atpresent, as many as 61,968 people are under quarantine at home, in hospitalsand in quarantine centres./.
The Ministry of Health’s anti-COVID-19 task force in the central city of Da Nang on the afternoon of September 3 reported the death of another COVID-19 patient, the 35th fatality in Vietnam.
No new COVID-19 cases were detected from 6am to 6pm on September 3, and the total count remained at 1,046, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
Experts have suggested a review is needed of Vietnam’s testing strategy, in particular stepping up antigen testing, to match the developments of the COVID-19 epidemic in the country.
Vietnam confirmed no new COVID-19 cases in the morning of September 4, keeping the national count at 1,046, including 691 locally-transmitted cases, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
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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.
Conducting health checkups for people staying at a concentrated quarantine facility (Photo: VNA) 
