Five more COVID-19 patients discharged from hospitals, total recoveries at 307

Five more patients had recovered from COVID-19 and were discharged from hospitals in Vietnam on June 5, raising the total to 307.
Five more COVID-19 patients discharged from hospitals, total recoveries at 307 ảnh 1Three patients are discharged from the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases in Hanoi on May 18. (Photo courtesy of the hospital)

Hanoi (VNA)
- Five more patients had recoveredfrom COVID-19 and were discharged from hospitals in Vietnam on June 5, raisingthe total to 307.

All are Vietnamese who returned home on a repatriationflight from the Russian capital Moscow on May 14.

Three were admitted to the National Hospital ofTropical Diseases in Hanoi on May 18 while the other two were treated at theHai Duong Provincial General Hospital.

The patients tested negative for the coronavirus twoor three times and are in a stable condition, with no fever or cough.

They will continue to be quarantined and monitored forthe next 14 days.

Vietnam reported no new COVID-19 cases on the morningof June 5, making it 50 successive days no new infections have been found inthe community, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19Prevention and Control.

Of the 328 cases, 188 were imported and quarantinedupon arrival.

There are currently 8,143 people with close contact toa confirmed case or who entered a pandemic-hit area now in quarantine athospitals, State-designated quarantine camps, or at home./.
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