The National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control said the new patient returned to Vietnam on a repatriation flight from Equatorial Guinea at the end of last month and was quarantined immediately after landing. He is the 951st person to contract the coronavirus SAR-CoV-2 since the first case was detected in Vietnam in January. Meanwhile, 10 people in the pandemic hotspot of Da Nang city who had previously tested positive for COVID-19 have made full recovery.

They will continue to be monitored and quarantined for 14 days. The total number of patients to be given the all-clear now stands at 447, or 47 percent, with 35 of those connected to the central city. So far, 23 people have lost their lives to COVID-19-related complications. All of them had underlying medical conditions.