Friday, 28/08/2020 10:54 (GMT+7)
Vietnam’s total COVID-19 cases remained at 1,036 as of 6:00 on August 28 as no new infections were confirmed over the past 12 hours, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
A COVID-19 checkpoint (Photo: VNA)
Of the total, 687 are locally transmitted, with 548 linked to the outbreak in the central city of Da Nang.
As many as 69,485 people who had close contact with COVID-19 patients or came from pandemic-hit areas are under quarantine nationwide.
The committee’s treatment sub-committee reported that 637 patients have been given the all-clear. The death toll has reached 30.
Among the active patients, 49 have tested negative for the coronavirus once, 47 twice and 31 three times.
The sub-committee said there are 12 patients who are in very serious conditions, nine of them very critical and three may die at any time./.
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