HCMC – Three more patients receiving treatment at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases will be declared free of Covid-19 this afternoon, May 18, taking the country’s total number of recoveries to 263, according to the hospital.

Two of them are linked to the Ha Loi Hamlet coronavirus cluster; they are the 257th case, a 15-year-old female student, and the 264th case, a 24-year-old woman. The third recovered case is a 22-year-old female resident of Bac Giang Province, confirmed as the 270th case, the local media reported. The three are no longer presenting symptoms of cough, fever or shortness of breath. After being discharged from the hospital, they will continue to be quarantined for another 14 days.