Vietnam reports two new imported cases of COVID-19, total at 270
Two Vietnamese students returning from Japan were confirmed positive for SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19 on late April 24, bringing the total cases in Vietnam to 270, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
The COVID-19 testing system at the Centre for Disease Control in northern Quang Ninh province (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA)– Two Vietnamese students returning from Japan were confirmed positive for SARS-CoV-2that causes COVID-19 late April 24, bringing the total cases in Vietnam to270, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention andControl.
The students arrivedin Vietnam on April 22 on Flight VN311. Upon entry at Van Don airport in thenorthern province of Quang Ninh, they were taken to a concentrated quarantinefacility in northern Thai Binh province.
The 269thpatient is a 23-year-old man from Huong Mai commune, Viet Yen district,northern Bac Giang province.
The 270thpatient is a 22-year-old woman from Tien Dung commune, Yen Dung district, Bac Giang province.
On April 22,the two patients were tested for SARS-CoV-2 by the Centre for DiseaseControl (CDC) of Thai Binh province. The results showed they were suspected to be infected with the virus and then were transferred to ThaiBinh General Hospital for quarantine.
On April 24,the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology confirmed the samples werepositive for the virus.
Atpresent, the two patients are being treated at the National Hospital forTropical Diseases in Hanoi’s outskirts district of Dong Anh.
As many as 68,890 are under health monitoringor quarantine, of them 352 are kept at hospitals, 17,832 in concentrated quarantine facilities, and 50,706 others at home.
On the same day, the247th patient was announced to fully recover at the Lung Hospital in southern DongNai province.
Fifteen cases tested negativefor the virus once and two negative twice and above./.
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The COVID-19 testing system at the Centre for Disease Control in northern Quang Ninh province (Photo: VNA) 
