15 COVID-19 patients in Quang Ninh declared recovered

The quarantine area at a hospital designated for COVID-19 treatment in Ha Long city, province (Photo: VNA)

Quang Ninh (VNA) – A COVID-19 treatment hospital in the northern province of
Quang Ninh on February 18 gave the all-clear to three patients who tested
negative for the three times.

Hospital No. 2, which
was set up within the Quang Ninh Lung Hospital, is treating 25 COVID-19
patients, of whom 10 have tested negative twice.

Between February
14 and 17, the Vietnam-Sweden Hospital in Uong Bi city also confirmed the
recovery of 12 patients who all tested negative three times and are
now under home quarantine for 14 days.

The test results
for six other patients at the hospital have been negative twice.

As of January
28, Quang Ninh had recorded 60 COVID-19 cases, with two transferred to the
National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi’s Dong Anh district.

The total of
COVID-19 cases in Vietnam stood at 2,329 as of the morning of February 18,
including 1,430 community infections, the National Steering Committee for
COVID-19 Prevention and Control reported.

Some 144,070
people who had close contact with confirmed COVID-19 patients or entered
Vietnam from pandemic-hit regions are under quarantine nationwide.

Since January
27, when the pandemic broke out in northern localities, 737 new cases of community
transmission have been detected./.