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According to the ministry's report, the 10 new locally-transmitted patients include two cases in Ha Nam Province who had earlier come into contact with some previously-confirmed patients in the area.
Eight other patients include five women and three men who are all connected to the Chinese man who was previously confirmed to have Coronavirus.
The 10 patients are now being treated at the Hanoi-based National Hospital for Tropical Diseases.
The nine imported patients include eight Vietnamese people and an Egyptian man who recently arrived in Vietnam from Japan, Cambodia and the UAE to Danang City, and Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Kien Giang, and Khanh Hoa provinces and were sent to local quarantine sites upon arrival. The patients are now being treated at local hospitals.
With these new infection cases, the number of Covid-19 patients in Vietnam has increased to 2,981, including 1,605 locally-transmitted cases.
As of 6 pm on May 3, a total of 2,560 Covid-19 patients had recovered and been discharged from hospital. There have been 35 deaths, most of them being the elderly with serious underlying diseases.
At present, nearly 40,000 people who had close contact with Covid-19 patients or returned from virus-hit areas are being monitored at hospitals, quarantine facilities, and at home.
