At a quarantine area (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam recorded 40 COVID-19 infections,
all s, during the past six hours to 12:00 pm on May 28,
according to the .
The ministry said among the new cases, 23 were
reported in Bac Giang province, 13 in Bac Ninh, and one each in Hai Duong, Hung
Yen, Ha Nam and Hanoi.
The number of locally-transmitted
and imported cases stood at 4,904, and 1,492, respectively.
Meanwhile, 43 patients were given the all-clear in the morning of May 28,
raising the number of recoveries to 2,896.
Among active patients undergoing treatment, 112 have tested negative to
coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 once, 41 twice, and 70 thrice.
One more fatality from was confirmed the same day, pushing the total
deaths related to the disease to 47.
The dead was a 22-year-old female patient who was diagnosed with bone marrow
failure in March this year, and has been treated at the National
Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion.
The patient was transferred to the second facility of
the National Hospital
for Tropical Diseases in Kim Chung commune in Hanoi’s outlying
district of Dong
Anh on April 29. She tested
positive to coronavirus and received treatment for the disease
from May 5.
The patient was in septic shock and died at 21:48 on May 27.
Also on May 28 morning, a
ceremony was held at the Health Ministry to receive 40 remote
temperature monitors worth a combined 1 million USD presented by the Government
of the Republic of Korea./.
Source: VietnamPlus
