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Hanoi (VNA) – Five
new cases of
COVID-19 were detected in the past 24 hours, all of them Vietnamese
returning from abroad, the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention
and Control announced on December 14 evening.
The new patients, comprising two
from Angola, two from Indonesia and one from Saudi Arabia, were quarantined
right upon their arrival in northern Thai Binh and Ninh Binh provinces, and the
Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap.
With the new cases, the national tally
now stands at 1,402, of which 693 are locally transmitted.
Among the COVID-19 cases in
Vietnam, 1,246 have recovered while the fatalities remain at 35.