The Ministry of Health confirmed 260 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday noon, bringing the national caseload to 19,570. 

The number of daily new COVID-19 cases from June 20 to 12:00 am on July 4

The latest patients include six Vietnamese returning home via the Ha Tien border gate in the southern province of Kien Giang between June 23 and July 2.

All the others are domestic infections in Ho Chi Minh City (213), Binh Duong (11), Phu Yen (10), Long An (5), Binh Dinh (4), Vinh Long (2), Hai Phong (2), Bac Giang (2), Tay Ninh (2), Ninh Thuan (1), Ha Tinh (1), and Tra Vinh (1). Of these 240 were detected in quarantine camps or lockdown areas.

The ministry also reported two more Coronavirus-related fatalities, raising the death toll to 86./.