Posted on 08/16/2021 6:42:12 AM PDT by cba123
Vietnam confirmed 8,652 more Covid-19 infections on Monday, which represented a fall of 930 cases compared to yesterday's figure, according to the Ministry of Health.
According to the ministry's report, 8,644 of the newly-confirmed patients are locally-transmitted cases most of whom were detected in quarantine sites or areas under lockdown in some localities such as Ho Chi Minh City (3,341 cases), Binh Duong (2,522), Long An (599), Dong Nai (588), Khanh Hoa (262), Dong Thap (158), Tien Giang (152), Vinh Long (131), Danang (96), An Giang (87), and Can Tho (86). Among these new infections, 2,422 cases were found in the community. There were eight imported patients recorded.
Ho Chi Minh City continued to report the highest number of new infections in the country. On Sunday, the city also recorded 4,516 new patients, the majority of which are individuals who came into contact with confirmed Covid-19 patients or who were detected in either isolation and locked down areas. Social distancing rules are being further tightened in the city to contain the spread of the virus. The government has set a target for HCM City to contain its Covid-19 outbreak by September 15.
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Hopefully this will be the start of a fall in cases.
Maybe.
Did you get your vaccine yet?
Thank you for posting.
Bump
No comment. :)
Respectfully.
Sure thing, you are welcome.
Well hope you stay healthy either way and that whoever wants/needs one is able to get it.
It is still (very) early in the process of vaccinating everyone here.
I sure hope they hurry.
‘It is still (very) early in the process of vaccinating everyone here.’
guess the constant facemasking didn’t work so good, did it...?
It worked great, until April of this year.
That is apparently when the Delta variant, knocked the virus out of the very-well controlled response, that Vietnam had very carefully controlled it, right up until then.
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