Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam recorded no new COVID-19 cases in the past 12 hours, remainingat 270, but five people who had previously been given the all-clear werepositive again.

According to the April 25 morning report from the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention andControl, Vietnam has reported zero deaths from COVID-19 so far.

Among the five positive again,patient No.188 was discharged from Ha Nam General Hospital on April 16 afterher results came back negative twice. She was put in quarantine for two weeks,during which she was monitored by the Hanoi Centre of Disease Control,re-tested frequently at the National Hospital for Tropical Disease in Hanoi andthe results came back positive on April 21.

Patients No.52 and No.149 weredeclared recovered by Hospital No.2 in the northern province of Quang Ninh onApril 16 and remained in quarantine there for another two weeks. On April 21,the hospital conducted tests for the two patients and their results returnedpositive.

Patient No.137 was declared recovered from the National Hospital for TropicalDisease in Hanoi on April 7 after testing results came back negative threetimes on three consecutive days (April 3-5).

During the two-week quarantine, she exhibited no clinical symptoms of thedisease and all testing results on April 7, April 16 and April 19 came backnegative. The CT scan of the patient’s lung did not show any signs of damageand the patient was allowed to be returned home on April 22 after her two weeksin hospital quarantine ends.

On April 23, the Central Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in Hanoiconfirmed that the tests results came back positive again, and the patient wasbrought back to the hospital.

Another relapse case was in the southern province of Binh Thuan. Patient No.36was confirmed to be free of the virus on April 10 after testing negative threetimes. During the following two-week quarantine at a medical facility in theprovince, the patient’s test results came back negative twice before a thirdtest on the final day of the quarantine showed positive results.

The patient is being quarantined for further medical monitoring.

On April 24 evening, two newcases were detected, both students returning home from Japan. They wereimmediately quarantined and are currently being treated for the virus.

As many as 54,966 people arecurrently in quarantine and have their health status monitored across thecountry./.