Nearly 280 Vietnamese citizens, stranded in 10 European countries due to the COVID-19 pandemic, were brought home on September 16-17 on a Vietnam Airlines flight.
Three new imported cases of COVID-19 were detected on September 17, raising the national count to 1,066, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
Vietnam recorded no new COVID-19 cases between 6 pm on September 17 and 6 am on September 18, according the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.