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One more Angola returnee tests positive for COVID-19
VGP – A 43-year-old man repatriated from Angola was confirmed positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, raising the patient tally to 1,173.
October 28, 2020 6:10 PM GMT+7
The man, native of Ky Ha Commune, Ky Anh Town, Ha Tinh Province landed in Van Don International Airport in Quang Ninh Province on October 20 and was quarantined in Bac Ninh Province.
He is being treated at Bac Ninh General Hospital.
Of the country’s patient tally, 691 are local infections, said the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
As many as 1,062 patients have been cleared of COVID-19 while fatalities stand at 35.
The nation has gone 56 days without a single community transmitted case of COVID-19, the Committee said Wednesday./.
By Thuy Dung