Additionally 1,830 patients discharged in a day

On October 1, Department of Health announced that in the past 24 hours, the whole province recorded 1,787 infection cases, decreasing by 316 cases compared to September 30. Community screening recorded the lowest number of cases with 22 cases, accounting for 1.2% of the total number of infections in the day. Meanwhile, the lockdown area has 1,676 cases, accounting for 93.8%.

During the day, Thuan An city had the highest number of cases with 784 cases, Di An city 323 cases, Bau Bang district 234 cases, Tan Uyen town 199 cases, Thu Dau Mot city 137 cases, Phu Giao district 47 cases, Dau Tieng district 37 cases, Bac Tan Uyen district 12 cases, Ben Cat town 5 cases and 9 cases recorded from outside the province. Up to now, the whole province has recorded 212,844 cases of Covid-19 infection. In addition, as an extensive testing was conducted, on October 1, localities have discovered 1,787 more positive cases out of a total of 264,732 sampled people, accounting for 0.68%.

Also on October 1, the province had an additional 1,830 patients discharged, bringing the total number of patients discharged during the epidemic to 185,399. The number of patients who died in the day was 19. During the day, 3 wards changed the level of risk as the whole province only had 3 wards in the red zones; 8 communes and wards in the yellow zones and 80 communes, wards and towns in the green zones.

Reported by Hoang Linh – Translated by Vi Bao