An additional 97 more Covid-19 patients have been recorded, raising the daily counts to 248 and total number of patients in the country to 13,727, the Ministry of Health reported on Tuesday evening.
According to the ministry's report, 88 of the newly-confirmed patients are locally-transmitted cases most of whom were detected in quarantine sites or areas under lockdown in some localities including 63 in Ho Chi Minh City, 12 in Bac Giang, six in Bac Ninh, two in Hung Yen, and one each in Nghe An and Hanoi.
As of Tuesday evening, 10,875 locally-transmitted cases have been reported since the new outbreak occurred in the country on April 27, including 5,488 in the virus epicentre of Bac Giang. The outbreak has so far spread to 42 cities and provinces nationwide.
Nine imported patients are all Vietnamese people who recently returned from Indonesia, Qatar, and Malaysia. They had been sent to quarantine areas in Tra Vinh, Ninh Binh, and Kien Giang provinces upon arrival and are now being treated at local hospitals.
With these new infection cases, the number of Covid-19 patients in Vietnam has increased to 13,727 including 12,010 locally-transmitted cases.
As of 6 pm on June 22, a total of 5,546 Covid-19 patients had recovered and been discharged from hospital.
So far there have been 69 deaths, most of them being the elderly with serious underlying diseases.
At present, over 172,000 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.
97 more Covid-19 patients confirmed, Tuesday counts rise to 248
An additional 97 more Covid-19 patients have been recorded, raising the daily counts to 248 and total number of patients in the country to 13,727, the Ministry of Health reported on Tuesday evening.
Source: dtinews.vn
