One relapsed COVID-19 patient reported on April 30

Workers at HCM City-based Pasteur Institute conduct SARS-CoV-2 testing. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA)
– A COVID-19 patient who had been previously given has tested
positive for the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 again, the reported on April 30 afternoon.

Patient 92 is a
student returning from France who had been declared to have recovered by the
in Ho Chi Minh City on April 14. After being discharged from hospital, he has
been under quarantine and medical monitoring at home.

However, his test
result turned positive on April 29. The student is being treated at the Cu Chi
hospital.

Also on April 30, the 268th patient, who was quarantined and treated
at the Dong Van General Hospital in the northern mountainous province of Ha
Giang, was declared to have fully recovered from the disease

The
patient, a H’Mong ethnic minority girl in Dong Van district’s Pho La commune,
was confirmed as Ha Giang’s first COVID-19 infection on April 16. She will be quarantined and
monitored for the next 14 days at the hospital.

Vietnam reported no new COVID-19 cases on April 30, marking 14 days in a row the country has recorded no infections in the
community.

Of the 270 confirmed patients, 130 are imported cases who were quarantined upon
their arrival, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19
Prevention and Control.

A total of 34,836 people who had close contact with confirmed patients or
coming from pandemic-hit regions have been quarantined across the country,
including 316 at hospitals, 6,700 at concentrated quarantine areas and 27,820
at home.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan
Phuc has agreed with the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention
and Control’s proposal to suspend the purchase of medicines under a scenario the country has 10,000
patients./.