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According to the ministry's report, all of the new patients are infected in the community including two in Hanoi and 31 in Hai Duong Province.
The patients are now being treated at the Hanoi-based National Hospital for Tropical Diseases.
With these new infection cases, the number of Covid-19 patients in Vietnam has increased to 2,228, including 1,330 locally-transmitted cases with 637 cases reported since the new outbreak started in Hai Duong on January 28.
As of 6 pm on February 14, a total of 1,534 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, as many as 152,690 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.
