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Six straight days without new Covid-19 patients in Vietnam
Updated: 11:00, 22/04/2020
Six days have passed since Vietnam recorded the latest Covid-19 patient, keeping the number of infection cases at 268 as of 6am on April 22, according to the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control.
Among the total, 160 or about 60 percent are imported cases while the 108 remainders contracted the coronavirus from other patients in the community.
As many as 216 patients, or 81 percent, have fully recovered.
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A health worker conducts rapid Covid-19 testing. |
Meanwhile, there are 52 cases still under treatment nationwide, including 12 testing negative for the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 once and eight people twice.
Six patients are expected to be given the all-clear on April 22.
More than 67,000 people are currently in quarantine. Of those, 358 people are at hospitals, 18,263 people are at concentrated quarantine centres and the remaining 48,401 people are self-quarantining at home.
No new Covid-19 infection cases have been detected in Vietnam over the past two days.
Vietnam confirms 268 Covid-19 cases as of 6 a.m on April 16, 2020.
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The National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control confirmed two new cases of Covid-19 in the morning of April 13, bringing the total number to 262.
The Ministry of Health on April 12 afternoon announced two more cases of Covid-19, bringing the total in the country to 260.
Source: VNA
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