Vietnam records 100 new local Covid cases
By Le Nga June 14, 2021 | 01:07 pm GMT+7
A person operates at a Covid-19 checkpoint in Ho Chi Minh City, June 6, 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Huu Khoa.
The Health Ministry announced 100 new local Covid-19 cases in four localities Monday noon.
69 cases were recorded in the northern province of Bac Giang, 26 in Ho Chi Minh City, four in Hanoi and one in the central province of Ha Tinh.
All the cases in Bac Giang are associated with coronavirus clusters at the province's industrial parks.
Nine cases in HCMC are associated with its now locked-down HCMC Hospital for Tropical Diseases, two associated with a major Christian mission coronavirus cluster, 10 are close contact cases with confirmed Covid-19 patients and five others, whose infection sources have yet to be known, are being contact traced.