The latest patients include one German man who flew from the Philippines to Can Tho City on March 29.

He is being treated at the Hospital for Lung and Tuberculosis in Ben Tre Province.

All the others are Vietnamese repatriated from Qatar (one), the Republic of Korea (one), Japan (five), and returned home via the Ha Tien International Border Gate in Kien Giang Province.

Of the national caseload, 2445 have recovered and exited hospitals while 35 others have been reported dead.

The nation is placing 36,234 people under medical surveillance and quarantine. Of these, 519 are being kept at hospitals and 120,409 at concentrated quarantine sites./.