Three COVID-19 patients including a five-year-old boy are given the all-clear at Quảng Nam Province’s General Hospital. —  Photo courtesy of the health ministry

HÀ NỘI — Three more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Việt Nam, all of them imported cases who arrived back to the country on the same flight from Russia on September 10. 

The total number of cases now stands at 1,063, but on Sunday eight more people were given the all-clear after beating coronavirus. 

Two of the new cases are men aged 24 and 26. The third is a 23-year-old woman.  The two men are from HCM City and northern Tuyên Quang Province and the woman from northern Nam Định Province.

Meanwhile, eight COVID-19 patients recovered on Sunday in central Đà Nẵng City and Quảng Nam Province. All of them tested negative for SARS-CV-2 for at least three times.

Five recovered patients at Đà Nẵng’s Lung Hospital and the three other recoveries from Quảng Nam Province’s General Hospital included a five-year-old boy. 

The patients will continue home quarantine following protocols of the Ministry of Health after being discharged from hospital.

Việt Nam has so far had 918 COVID-19 recoveries and 35 fatalities related to the coronavirus. — VNS