Teenage girl from border province positive for SARS-CoV-2
A teenage girl from the H’Mong ethnic minority group was confirmed positive for SARS-CoV-2 on April 16 morning, taking the total number of cases in Vietnam to 268, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
Guards in Ha Giang province on duty around the clock at the border between Vietnam and China to detect possible COVID-19 infections. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA)– A teenage girl from the H’Mong ethnic minority group was confirmed positivefor SARS-CoV-2 on April 16 morning, taking the total number of cases in Vietnamto 268, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Preventionand Control.
The 16-year-old girl livesin a remote hamlet near the border with China, in Dong Van district, thenorthern mountainous province of Ha Giang.
She has threebrothers who all work across the border in China.
On April 7,the girl displayed symptoms of fever, cough and breathing difficulties, and wasquarantined at the Dong Van district General Hospital. She tested positive for SARS-CoV-2that causes the COVID-19 pandemic.
Of the 268COVID-19 cases in Vietnam, 160 arrived from abroad and the remainder wereinfected with the virus from patients inside the country.
As many as171 have made full recovery, while the others are being treated at hospitals atdifferent levels.
Twenty-threepatients have tested negative for the virus once and 10 tested negative twice.
There are68,049 people currently in quarantine nationwide./.
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Despite the ongoing global circulation and unpredictable developments of SARS-CoV-2, the World Health Organisation (WHO) hasn’t issued new warnings about COVID-19, said the Ministry of Health.
Guards in Ha Giang province on duty around the clock at the border between Vietnam and China to detect possible COVID-19 infections. (Photo: VNA) 
