Twenty four Vietnamese people have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 after returning from Russia, raising the total number of patients in the country to 312, the Ministry of Health reported on Friday morning.
A quarantine area for Covid-19 prevention
According to the ministry, the new cases include one woman and 23 men aged between 24 and 47 who arrived on a Vietnam Airlines flight at Van Don International Airport in the northern province of Quang Ninh on May 13.
The flight carried 345 repatriated Vietnamese citizens from Moscow who are mostly children under 18 years old, students unable to access dormitories, pregnant women, the elderly, transit passengers and employees with expired contracts and visas.
All the passengers and the flight crew were sent to quarantine areas in Quang Ninh, Thai Binh, and Hai Duong provinces right after landing.
Local authorities had taken samples of all the people on the flight for viral testing and 24 tested positive, the ministry said.
At present, one is being treated at Quang Ninh Hospital 2 and the rest are at Thai Binh Provincial General Hospital.
As of 6am on May 15, Vietnam has gone 29 days without Covid-19 community transmission.
260 patients have recovered and no deaths have been confirmed.
At present, 12,236 people are under quarantine including 353 quarantined at hospitals, 8,492 at quarantine areas and 3,391 at home.
