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No new COVID-19 cases in community for 32 consecutive days

Vietnam had no new COVID-19 cases to report on October 4 afternoon, marking the 32nd consecutive day without infections in the community, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
No new COVID-19 cases in community for 32 consecutive days ảnh 1Vietnamese citizens returning from Singapore are quarantined in Soc Trang province (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam had no new COVID-19 cases to report onOctober 4 afternoon, marking the 32nd consecutive day without infections in thecommunity, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Preventionand Control.
 
The country has to date confirmed 1,096 COVID-19 cases, including 691local infections and the rest are imported, it further said.
  
Among the patients undergoing treatment, one has tested negative for the novelcoronavirus SARS-CoV-2 once, two twice and four thrice.

So far, 1,020 patients have been successfully treated and there are now nopatients in critical conditions.

The death toll from the disease remained at 35, most of them elderly peoplewith serious underlying conditions.

As many as 16,447 people who had close contacts with COVID-19 patients orentered Vietnam from pandemic-hit regions are being quarantined across the county,including 718 in hospitals, 11,212 in concentrated quarantine establishments,and 4,547 at home./.
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