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 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.
The 16-year-old girl lives
in a remote hamlet near the border with China, in Dong Van district, the
northern mountainous province of .
She has three
brothers who all work across the border in China.
On April 7,
the girl displayed symptoms of fever, cough and breathing difficulties, and was
quarantined at the Dong Van district General Hospital. She tested positive for SARS-CoV-2
that causes the COVID-19 pandemic.
Of the 268
cases in Vietnam, 160 arrived from abroad and the remainder were
infected with the virus from patients inside the country.
As many as
171 have made full recovery, while the others are being treated at hospitals at
different levels.
Twenty-three
patients have tested negative for the virus once and 10 tested negative twice.
There are
68,049 people currently in quarantine nationwide./.
Source: VietnamPlus
