Vietnam's COVID-19 cases rise to 207

Vietnam's Ministry of Health on Tuesday evening confirmed three more COVID-19 cases, bringing the total confirmed cases in the country to 207.

 

The new cases include a worker of a company providing service to the Hanoi-based Bach Mai Hospital. A number of workers at the company who had provided services to the hospital have earlier been confirmed to be infected.

 

The other two, both in the southern Ho Chi Minh City, are a Brazilian whose wife has been confirmed infected and a Vietnamese working as a driver for the Brazilian patient's wife.

 

The health ministry on Tuesday evening announced that two more COVID-19 patients had recovered in the country, which has seen 58 infected cases cured so far, according to the Vietnamese government's official website.

 

Vietnam has 3,215 suspected cases with over 75,000 being monitored and quarantined as of Tuesday morning, according to the health ministry. No deaths from the virus have been recorded in the country so far.

 

xinhua