Of the total, 691 cases were locally infected, including 551 cases linked to the COVID-19 outbreak in Da Nang.
The country has gone through 62 consecutive days without local transmissions with all coronavirus hotspots brought under control.
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Among the active cases, nine have tested negative for the virus once, seven twice and six thrice. There are no patients under critical conditions and the number of recoveries has reached 1,065.
The death toll remains at 35.
As many as 14,775 people having close contact with COVID-19 patients or entering Vietnam from pandemic-hit areas are under quarantine at hospitals, state-designated centers or home.
Earlier, Vietnam confirmed 12 more imported COVID-19 cases from 6 a.m. - 6 p.m. on November 2, reported the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
Three of them are under quarantine and treatment at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi’s outlying district of Dong Anh, two at Khanh Hoa Hospital of Tropical Diseases, and the remaining at the Hoa Binh provincial General Hospital.
As of November 2, Vietnam recorded 1,192 patients positive to SARS-CoV-2, 691 of them were locally-transmitted.
The same day, two patients were given the all-clear, raising the total number of recovered cases to 1,065.
Source: VNA