Vietnam confirms 17 new coronavirus infection cases

Xuan Thinh Thursday | 05/07/2020 19:52

Vietnamese repatriated from the UAE land in the Can Tho International Airport in Can Tho, May 3, 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Cuu Long.

Vietnamese health officials have found 17 new COVID-19 infection cases, raising the patient tally to 288, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

All of the new patients are Vietnamese citizen, who had been sent to a centralized quarantine camp in the Mekong Delta’s Bac Lieu province right after returning from the United Arab Emirates, said the committee.

They are among 297 passengers on Vietnam Airlines' flight VN0088 and being treated at the Bac Lieu General Hospital.

Among the new cases, six are male and 11 female. One of the patients is an newborn boy and the rest are between 20 and 58 years of age. The flight crew have also been quarantined.

As of Thursday night, Vietnam's infection tally hits 288. Of them 55 are active patients. Twenty-one of the active cases have tested negative at least once.

At present, as many as 20,942 people are being quarantined in different facilities across Viet Nam, including 169 at hospitals, 6,469 at centralized camps, and 14,304 at places of residence.