All COVID-19 patients in Vietnam progress positively

Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son (Source: CPV)

Some patients have had symptoms of pneumonia but the situation was under control. The Hanoi-based National Hospital for Tropical Diseases said they were treating 11 patients and all are in good condition. They haven't had any worsening case and no one has to use invasive ventilation methods. The 17th patient has not had a fever for the last three days.

On the same day, the Ministry of Health also announced that five more people had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, taking the total number of COVID-19 cases in Vietnam so far to 44.

The new patients are among the 56 people whose samples were sent to the Nha Trang Pasteur Institute in the central province of Khanh Hoa on March 12th, as they had close contact with COVID-19 patients detected in central Binh Thuan province on March 10th and 11th, reported VNA.

Among the five new cases, a two-year-old girl, a 59-year-old man and a 28-year-old man, all live in Binh Thuan’s Phan Thiet city, had close contact with the 34th patient - a 51-year-old Vietnamese woman who tested positive on March 10th.

The two others are a 47-year-old woman in Phan Thiet city, who had close contact with the 38th patient, and a 13-year-old boy in Ham Thuan Bac district, Binh Thuan province, who had contact with the 37th patient.

Of the 44 cases reported in Vietnam so far, 16 had made complete recovery./.