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Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam recorded two new
imported COVID-19 cases on December 30, bringing the total number of infections
to 1,456, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention
and Control.
Both new cases are Vietnamese citizens, including a
26-year-old man and a 70-year-old woman, who returned home from Germany and
Canada. They have been quarantined upon their arrival.
The man is now treated at the National Hospital for
Tropical Diseases No. 2 in Hanoi’s Dong Anh district, while the woman is
treated at the Cu Chi
COVID-19 treatment hospital in Ho Chi Minh City.
Of the total infections, 693 are domestically-transmitted
At a meeting of the Vinh Long provincial Steering Committee for
COVID-19 Prevention and Control (Photo: VNA)
Vinh Long (VNA) – Relevant authorities of the southern province of Vinh Long recently
detected another illegal immigrant who has now been quarantined and took his
sample for SARS-CoV-2 test, Deputy Chairwoman of the province Nguyen Thi
Quyen Thanh said on December 30.
The 24-year-old man,
a resident of Trung Thanh Dong commune, Vung Lien district, illegally entered
the country by sea and later moved to
He was found to have
spent the December 29 night at his house in Trung Thanh Dong commune. The
following morning, he met a number of his family members