Wednesday, 19:06, 03/03/2021
VOV.VN - A further five community cases of COVID-19 were detected in the biggest coronavirus hotspot of Hai Duong, taking the total number of local transmissions in Vietnam to 1,566, the Ministry of Health reported on March 3 afternoon.
All the new infections in Hai Duong are F1 contacts of infected patients who had been quarantined earlier.
The same day, the southern province of Kien Giang also recorded two imported cases which were immediately put into isolation upon entry.
As many as 873 locally-transmitted cases were found since the initial recurrence of the virus in the northern provinces of Hai Duong and Quang Ninh in late January.