Local health agencies have been asked to join medical facilities to monitor and collect SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic specimens and send them to Centers for Disease Control for gene sequencing.
The two imported were quarantined in Ho Chi
Minh City and the Mekong Delta province of Long An right upon their arrival, while the other case was recorded in the northern province of Hai Duong.
These new patients brought the total count in
the country to 2,529, including 1,588
domestically-transmitted cases.
The
ministry reported that a total of 2,004 patients had been given the all-clear
from the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 so far, and the fatalities remained at 35.
Among the active patients undergoing
treatment, 48 tested negative for the virus once, 42 twice and 118 thrice.
As many as 44,540 people who had close contact
with confirmed COVID-19 patients or entered Vietnam from pandemic-hit regions
A health worker is injected with
COVID-19 vaccine in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai. (Photo: VNA)
Gia Lai (VNA) - The COVID-19
vaccination drive reached the Central
Highlands province of
Gia Lai on March 9, making it the fourth locality in Vietnam
to vaccinate people on the front lines of fighting the pandemic after
Hanoi, Ho
Chi Minh City and Hai Duong province.
Sixty-one medical workers and staff at Gia Lai province’s Field Hospital and 39
others in the province’s General Hospital are expected to get vaccinated on March
9 - 10.
Another 1,800 vaccine doses will be transferred to the Gia Lai Centre for