Four more Covid-19 infection cases were reported in Vietnam on Thursday evening, raising the total number of patients to 412, according to the National Committee on Covid-19 Prevention and Control.
Vietnamese people check in for a repatriation flight at the airport in Moscow on May 12.
One of the new patients was a 37-year old Philippine woman who arrived in Phu Quoc Island in the southern province of Kien Giang from the Republic of Korea on flight QH9461 on July 19. She is being treated at a medical centre in Phu Quoc.
The three others were Vietnamese turning from Russia on flight VN5062 on July 17. They are being treated at a hospital in the northern province of Nam Dinh.
Earlier, 16 other passengers on this flight were also confirmed to be infected with SARS-COV-2.
All of them had been quarantined upon arrival so there is no risk of community transmission.As of July 23, Vietnam has gone through 98 consecutive days without reporting any community transmission of the virus. 365 patients have recovered, and there have been no deaths so far.
At present,10,330 people who had close contact with patients or entered from virus-hit areas are being quarantined at hospitals, centralised quarantine areas or at home.
