A health worker conducts COVID-19 testing (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam recorded no new COVID-19 cases on May 6 morning, makingit 20 days in a row without infections within the community, the NationalSteering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control reported.
Thenational count stands still at 271, of whom 131 were imported cases who were quarantinedupon arrival, the committee said.
Atotal of 232 patients have recovered or been discharged from hospital so farwhile the remainder are being treated at centrally-run and provincial medicalfacilities. Most of them are in stable conditions.
Asmany as 34,097 are under quarantine or health monitoring, of whom 245 stay atconcentrated facilities in hospitals, 10,293 at other quarantine facilities and23,559 at home and accommodations.
Amongthe active patients, 12 had tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 that causes theacute respiratory disease once as of May 6 morning, and nine negative twice ormore.
TheHCM City’s Health Department reported on May 5 that a recovered COVID-19patient in the city tested positive again, marking the tenth relapse case inthe locality.
Thelatest relapse case is Patient 204 who was declared to have recovered on April10 after testing negative three times.
However,his test result turned positive 25 days after hospital discharge. He is beingtreated at the Cu Chi hospital for COVID-19 in the city.
HCMCity has confirmed 10 relapse cases so far./.
VNA
