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Of the new patients, two are Vietnamese citizens with one returning from Germany and the other from the US via the Republic of Korea. The third one is a Nepalese arriving from the US.
Also on Thursday, eight patients fully recovered, bringing the number of recovered patients to 1,209. The fatalities remain at 35.
A total of 16,582 people who had close contacts with COVID-19 patients or returned from pandemic-hit areas are being quarantined nationwide.