Vietnam confirms 222 Covid-19 patients
Four new Covid-19 infection cases have just been announced, raising the total number of patients in Vietnam to 222 as of Thursday morning.
A doctor takes care of a Covid-19 patient at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi
According to the Ministry of Health, three of the new patients are Vietnamese people who have just returned to Hanoi from abroad and the last one is related to the Hanoi-based Bach Mai Hospital.
One patient is a 20-year-old man who returned from France on March 17. He showed virus infection symptoms on March 22.
The other patient is a 24-year-old student in Canada. He transited in Taiwan and arrived in Hanoi on March 24. He showed Covid-19 symptoms on March 30 and tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.
One more patient is a 28-year-old woman who arrived in Hanoi from the US on March 20. She also tested positive for the virus on March 30.
All the above three patients have been quarantined since their entry and then moved to the Hanoi-based National Hospital for Tropical Diseases for treatment.
The last case is a 59-year-old woman who came to visit a patient at the Bach Mai Hospital on March 16. She then heard about dozens of Covid-19 patients reported at this hospital and came to the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases for check up and tested positive for virus.
The Ministry of Heath said that there are now 4,600 virus suspected cases in the country while 79,537 others are being quarantined.
As of April 2, 64 patients have recovered while 97 others have tested negative for the virus at least once.
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