A medical worker is being disinfected after taking samples for COVID-19 testing (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam
recorded 50 more COVID-19 infections, including two , during the
past six hours to 12:00 pm on June 2, lifting the national tally to 7,675, according
to the Ministry of Health.
The ministry said among the new cases detected
on June 2 morning, 35 were in Bac Giang province, 12 in Bac Ninh, and one in
central Da Nang city.
The number of locally-transmitted and imported
cases has so far stood at 6,166, and 1,509, respectively. Meanwhile, the total
of reported since April 27 when the fourth
hit the country amounted to 4,596.
The country counted a total of 3,043 of recoveries.
Among active patients undergoing treatment, 161
have tested negative to coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 once, 91 twice, and 79 thrice.
The Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Tropical
Diseases announced one more fatality from COVID-19 on June 2 morning, pushing the total deaths related to the
disease to 49.
The dead is a female patient who was diagnosed
with end-stage chronic kidney failure. The patient was treated at the hospital from May 25 after she tested positive to coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
The cause of death was determined to be severe infection, septic shock,
heart failure on the basis of hypertension and end-stage chronic
kidney failure.
According to HCM City’s Centre for Disease Control (CDC),
23 more people in the southern hub tested positive to the coronavirus, with 18
cases linked to the infection cluster at the “Hoi thanh truyen giao Phuc Hung” (Revival Ekklesia Mission).
The city had counted a total 497 COVID-19 infections
as of June 2 morning, including 267 those recovered from the disease.
As many as 277,841 samples for COVID-19 testing have
been collected in the city so far, the centre said. /.
Source: VietnamPlus
