Health workers collect samples for COVID-19 testing (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – There are no new COVID-19 casesreported in Vietnam overnight by April 29 morning, keeping the total at 270 andmarking the 13th straight day without patients infected with the novelcoronavirus in the community.
However, Case 151, who was earlier given theall-clear, tested positive again on April 28, according to the nationalsteering committee for COVID-19 prevention and control.
She is the wife of Case 207. Both werepreviously discharged from hospital and quarantined at home for an additional14 days. However, when her husband was found to relapse into the disease onApril 27, she was immediately sent to the COVID-19 hospital in Cu Chi districtof Ho Chi Minh City.
Although the test result on April 27 showed thatshe was negative, another test on the next day indicated she was positiveagain.
Among the 270 cases, 130 are imported cases andhave been quarantined upon their arrival in Vietnam. As many as 221 of all thepatients have fully recovered.
Of the 49 patients still under treatment, 11have tested negative for the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 once and eightnegative at least twice.
Meanwhile, 42,057 people who have close contactwith confirmed patients or returned from other countries are currently kept inquarantine, including 323 at hospitals, 6,643 at other quarantine facilitiesand 35,091 at home./.
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