Doctors take care of a Covid-19 patient in Vietnam
All of them are Vietnamese who recently returned from the UAE and were staying in centralised quarantine areas in the southern province of Bac Lieu, the ministry said.
The new patients included five men and 11 women aged between 20 and 58, and a baby boy born in 2020.
The VN0088flight brought 297 Vietnamese citizens from the UAE home on May 3. All of the passengers and the flight crew members have been quarantined since.
The 17 new patients are being treated at the Bac Lieu Provincial General Hospital and are in stable health condition.The latest patients brought the total number of imported cases to 148.
According to the ministry, Vietnam hasn’t recorded any new Covid-19 infection cases in the community for 21 straight days as of May 7. 233 patients have recovered and discharged from hospital. There are nearly 21,000 people kept in quarantine.
