Three more COVID-19 patients die

They were all elderly people and suffering from underlying health conditions.

The 103rd
death is a 74-year-old man from Ho Chi Minh City’s District 4 who was suffering
from liver cancer. He tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 on June 17 and was treated
in Can Gio before being transferred to HCM City’s Trung Vuon Hospital where he
died on July 3.

Cause of
death was recorded as pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection with serious
complications, progressive respiratory failure, multi-organ failure in patients
with liver cancer, cirrhosis caused by hepatitis C, heart failure, hypertension
and type-2 diabetes.

The 104th
death is a 72-year-old woman from Thanh Khe district in the central city of Da
Nang.

She had
closed contact with many confirmed COVID-19 cases in her family. She tested
positive for SARS-CoV-2 on June 18 and was taken to Da Nang Lung Hospital.

She died on July
7 with cause of the death noted as severe pneumonia due to COVID-19
complications, progressive respiratory failure, multiple organ failure, septic
shock, hypovolemic shock due to severe gastrointestinal bleeding and invasive
candidiasis in patients with type 2 diabetes, obesity, and heart failure.

The 105th
death is a 67-year-old woman from Viet Yen district in the northern province of
Bac Giang. She suffered from hypertension for many years and diabetes for a
year.

She tested
positive for SARS-CoV-2 on June 3 and was taken to Bac Giang Lung Hospital for
ARDS pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2 in patients with hypertension and diabetes.

On June 13,
she was transferred to the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases. She died
there in the evening of July 5. Cause of the death was recorded as septic
shock, multiple organ failure, ARDS pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2 in patients
with diabetes and hypertension.

The total number of people who have died since the fourth outbreak of
coronavirus began at the end of April now stands at 70./.