Vietnam reviews 1st locally transmitted COVID-19 circumstance in practically 3 months
01 December, 2020
Vietnam confirmed on Monday (Nov 30) its first locally transmitted COVID-19 case in 89 times.
The case, a 32-year-old man, is related to a flight attendant who had tested positive after returning from Japan fourteen days ago.
With its strict quarantine and tracking steps, Vietnam has were able to quickly contain its coronavirus outbreaks, and can resume its economic activities earlier than a lot of Asia.
Vietnam crushed its initial wave of coronavirus infections in April and went nearly 100 days without neighborhood transmission until the virus re-emerged and was first quickly contained in the central metropolis of Danang in July.
Authorities said the most recent case had taught in language-learning centres and been to cafes and karaoke bars since his contact with the air travel attendant. Those areas had since been closed.
Vietnam has up to now recorded 1,347 coronavirus cases, 655 which it said were imported. The country has reported typically five of these cases a day lately.
It has effectively closed its borders to combat the coronavirus but has allowed some business travellers and the ones with foreign knowledge to enter on particular flights provided they undergo quarantine.
Monday's case came times after the wellbeing ministry warned of a new outbreak among the community as the cold time of year has begun.
"The COVID-19 circumstances remains complicated," Wellbeing Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said the other day.
"The condition has returned in lots of parts of the world in winter time."
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