Viet Nam reported 59 newly imported COVID-19 cases and 41 recoveries from April 19-25, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

The latest cases included 10 foreign nationals from India (eight), the Philippines (one), and Turkey (one).   

The rest are Vietnamese nationals brought home from Japan (31), Russia (five), the U.S. (three), the United Arab Emirates (two), India (two), Ukraine (one), Singapore (one), Germany (one), the Republic of Korea (one), or returned to Viet Nam via land border gates.

As of late April 25, Viet Nam reported 2,843 infection cases including 1,570 locally-transmitted cases, 2,516 recoveries, and 35 fatalities. 

The nation has gone 30 straight days with no new community infections.  

The Southeast Asian country administered 198,972 vaccine doses to frontline workers since March 8 when the national inoculation program. 

During the past week, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh ordered strengthening COVID-19 prevention and control, amid the complicated developments of the pandemic around the world. 

The PM asked ministries, ministry-level and Government agencies, People’s Committees of the centrally-run cities and provinces to stay vigilant, uphold the responsibility of leaders while adopting drastic, concerted and effective measures with the principle of active prevention, early discovery, quick quarantine, effective treatment and rapid stabilization of the situation.

Viet Nam also donated US$ 300,000 to support Cambodia in its fight against COVID-19 outbreak.

The Vietnamese PM decided to provide Cambodia with 800 ventilators, two million medical face masks and 300,000 N95 masks, as well as other medical equipment given the complex developments of the pandemic in Cambodia.  

Viet Nam is willing to send medical experts and doctors to support Cambodia in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long told his Cambodian counterpart Mam Buncheng at an online meeting on April 22.                

Border localities need to ensure quarantine and free COVID-19 testing for Vietnamese citizens returning from abroad so as to prevent illegal entry, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam made the request during an in-person and online meeting with HCM City and 10 localities bordering Cambodia on April 23.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia, in collaboration with the Cho Ray- Phnom Penh hospital and the Khmer-Viet Nam association in Cambodia, on April 24, presented emergency relief aid to 350 households of the Vietnamese origin in Chbar Ampov district’s Champa pagoda area./.