Three Vietnamese citizens returning home from Kuwait are the latest people to test positive for the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19, bringing the total number of cases to 352.
Hanoi (VNA) - Three Vietnamese citizens returning home from Kuwait are the latestpeople to test positive for the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19,bringing the total number of cases to 352.
They wereall quarantined upon arrival. Vietnam has gone 69 days straight without anycommunity infections.
The newpositive cases are a 36-year-old man, from Hung Ha district in the northernprovince of Thai Binh and two women, aged 46 and 30, both from the centralprovince of Thanh Hoa.
The threepatients arrived on two separate repatriation flights from Kuwait, one landingat Ho Chi Minh City-based Tan Son Nhat International Airport on June 16 and theother at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi two days later.
The man isbeing treated at Ba Ria Hospital in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tauand the two women at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases No. 2 in Hanoi’sDong Anh district.
As of June24, 329 out of the 352 patients have recovered from the disease.
Among activecases, two people have tested negative for the SARS-CoV-2 once while threeothers negative twice.
A total of6,318 people who had close contact with COVID-19 patients and came frompandemic-hit areas are under medical monitoring or quarantine, of which 107 areat hospitals, 5,411 at medical stations and 800 at home./.
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Illustrative photo. (Source: VNA)
