The National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control said the new patient is a 27-year-old man from Yen Thanh district in the central province of Nghe An.
Tran Van Giap stree in Hai Duong city's Thanh Binh ward, where patient 950 lives, is locked down (Photo: VNA)
He returned to Vietnam on a repatriation flight from Equatorial Guinea at the end of last month and was quarantined immediately after landing.
He is the 951st person to contract the coronavirus SAR-CoV-2 since the first case was detected in Vietnam in January.
Meanwhile, 10 people in the pandemic hotspot of Da Nang city who had previously tested positive for COVID-19 have made full recovery. They will continue to be monitored and quarantined for 14 days.
The total number of patients to be given the all-clear now stands at 447, or 47 percent, with 35 of those connected to the central city.
So far, 23 people have lost their lives to COVID-19-related complications. All of them had underlying medical conditions.
Among the patients undergoing treatment at medical facilities across the nation, 50 tested negative for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 once and 91 others tested negative at least twice.
As many as 107,642 people who had close contact with COVID-19 patients or entering Vietnam from pandemic-hit regions are being quarantined, including 4,015 in hospitals, 24,948 in state-designated quarantine establishments and 78,679 at their homes,
