A 66-year-old COVID-19 patient in Cam Le district, the central city of Da Nang died on August 10, raising the death toll to 14 since the pandemic broke out in Vietnam.
Hanoi (VNA) – A 66-year-old COVID-19 patient in Cam Le district, the central city ofDa Nang died on August 10, raising the death toll to 14 since the pandemicbroke out in Vietnam.
According to DeputyHealth Minister Nguyen Truong Son, who is also head of the special team in responseto COVID-19 in Da Nang, the man had end-stage chronic renal failure and hisheart had stopped beating for many times.
He had been undertreatment at Da Nang Hospital from July 6-27, and tested positive for thecoronavirus on July 26.
The patient wastransferred to the COVID-19 quarantine and treatment centre of Hue CentralHospital in central Thua Thien-Hue province on July 28, where he was diagnosed withcoronavirus infection and severe pneumonia, with end-stage chronic renalfailure.
He died in themorning of August 10.
Vietnamrecorded six more COVID-19 cases on August 10 afternoon, bringing the nationaltally to 847, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19Prevention and Control. Of the newpatients, aged 8 - 65, oneis in the central province of Quang Nam, four in the central city of Da Nang,and one imported case in Ho Chi Minh City. According to the committee’s treatment subcommittee, four more patients were reported to fully recover onAugust 10, lifting the total recoveries to 399.
Among the remaining active patients, nine have testednegative for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 once and 36 others at least twice. A total of 182,267 people who had close contact withCOVID-19 patients or entering Vietnam from pandemic-hit regions arebeing quarantined nationwide, including 5,139 at hospitals, 28,408 at otherconcentrated quarantine facilities, and 148,720 at their homes./.
Two more COVID-19 patients died early August 10, raising the country’s total death toll to 13, said Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son later the same day.
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