Four patients in Da Nang recover from COVID-19

The four patients (holding papers) are discharged from the Da Nang Lung Hospital on August 10 (Photo: VNA)

Da Nang (VNA) – Four
patients who contracted COVID-19 in the latest outbreak hitting Vietnam have
recovered from the disease and were discharged from the on
August 10.

The hospital’s director Le Thanh Phuc said the female
patients had tested negative for the , which causes
COVID-19, four times.

They were sent home and will be quarantined and
monitored for a further 14 days by health workers, he said, noting that three
of them reside in central Da Nang city while the other is in nearby Quang Ngai
province.

Two of the patients are health workers at the Da
Nang Hospital, which was a hotspot in the new COVID-19 outbreak, and tested positive
on July 27. The two others cared for relatives at the hospital and tested
positive two days later.

There were 257 patients undergoing
treatment in Da Nang as of 8am on August 10, and many have tested negative for
SARS-CoV-2 between one and four times, according to the municipal Department of
Health.

The COVID-19 tally in Vietnam currently stands
at 841, including 384 cases related to Da Nang in the new outbreak that started
on July 25, with 399 recoveries and 13 fatalities./.