Vietnamese people check in for a repatriation flight at the airport in Moscow on May 12.
The new patient is a 64-year old man who landed at the Tan Son Nhat International Airport on July 11 on flight IO4405 which carried 69 passengers from Russia. He is the 9th Russian passenger infected with the virus in Vietnam.
With this new patient, the number of imported cases has risen to 241, or over 63% of the total patients.
As of Saturday morning, Vietnam has gone through more than three months without any community transmissions, the committee said.
Of the patient tally, 357 or 93.5 percent have been cleared of the virus. There is no death from the disease.
The remaining 25 patients are being treated at hospital in stable condition, with five tested negative once and four at least twice.
At present, 10,133 people who had close contact with patients or entered from virus-hit areas are being quarantined at hospitals, centralised quarantine areas or at home.
