Four imported cases of COVID-19 recorded on January 7
Four new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed during the past 24 hours to 6pm on January 7, all Vietnamese
Hanoi (VNA) – Seven COVID-19 cases were detected in Vietnam in the past 24 hours to 6pm January 5, all among people quarantined after returning from abroad, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
Among the new patients, six were Vietnamese citizens returning from the US, the Philippines and Japan, and the seventh was a British citizen arriving from Dubai.
The newly found infections raised the national count of COVID-19 cases to 1,504, including 693 locally transmitted cases.
The number of recovered patients is now 1,339 while fatalities remain at 35.
Among patients still under treatment, nine have tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 once, six twice and five thrice.
A total of 19,286 people who had close contact with COVID-19 patients or returned from pandemic-hit areas are being quarantined nationwide./.
VNA
