The three optimistic cases had been detected over the weekend in Ho Chi Minh City and confirmed as omicron late on Tuesday, the Tien Phong Newspaper reported, citing well being authorities.
The Southeast Asian nation had beforehand detected greater than 70 cases of the extremely transmissible variant amongst quarantined folks getting into Vietnam from abroad.
“The community needs to raise their vigilance against omicron, not gathering at crowded places and getting fully vaccinated,” the Ministry of Health stated in a press release final week.
Overall, Vietnam has recorded greater than two million COVID-19 infections and practically 36,000 deaths.
More than 74% of the nation’s inhabitants of 98 million have acquired at the least two vaccine pictures, in response to the well being ministry.
Vietnam has additionally launched a booster vaccination drive, with authorities pledging that each one adults ought to get the further vaccine shot by the finish of March.
