Covid-19 pandemic forecast to reach its peak in next 10 days

Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son

     >>> VN reports ninth Coronavirus-related death

He warned we are not allowed to be subjective though drastic tracing and isolation efforts are underway.

Viet Nam had gone 99 consecutive days without a single community transmission case of Covid-19 before a community infection case in Da Nang was officially confirmed on July 25.

As of 6:10 am on Thursday, the nation’s patient tally reached 717, including 268 new cases reported since the emergence of the Covid-19 outbreak in the central city, according to the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control.

The patient tally include 381 recovered cases and nine deaths, said the Steering Committee./.

By Kim Anh