Measuring body temperature in Nam Dinh province (Source: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The announced on April 14 morning that no
new cases of coronavirus had been detected overnight, with the total number of
infections nationwide remaining at 265.
To date, 146 patients, or 55 percent, have been given the
.
The latest patient to leave hospital is a 74-year-old man
from the UK who came to Vietnam with his wife last month. She also tested
positive for the virus.
On March 27 while being treated at the National Hospital of
Tropical Diseases, he suffered severe respiratory failure and was sent to the
intensive care unit where he was put on a ventilator.
Doctors fought for a week as the man’s health deteriorated
rapidly. By April 5, he started to respond to treatment and began breathing
without oxygen therapy.
Both further tests for the virus taken on April 8 and 10 produced negative results.
The couple left Vietnam for the UK early on April 14 on a
flight arranged by the British Government exclusively for British citizens.
Among the 265 cases, 160 returned from abroad, making up
60.4 percent of total, and 105 got the virus in the community, or 39.6
percent.
The total number of people who came or returned to Vietnam
from pandemic-affected countries and territories and have been quarantined is 75,291. Of these,
713 are quarantined in hospitals, 15,564 are in quarantine centres and 59,014
at their homes./.
Source: VietnamPlus
