A student returning from Daegu, the RoK, who is the 18th COVID-19 case in Vietnam, is declared cured and allowed to go home on March 20 (Photo: VNA)patient, the in detection order in Vietnam, was declared
cured and allowed to go home on March 20.
He was the first case detected in the northern
province of and had been receiving treatment at the provincial
General Hospital from March 7.
Deputy Director of the hospital Chu Thi
Giang said the patient underwent five tests for the virus during the duration
of treatment, with the first two returning positive. The rest were taken
between March 14 and 18 and came back negative.
The male patient, born in Thai Binh
province, was a student returning from Daegu, among the hardest hit areas of
the COVID-19 epidemic in the Republic of Korea. He was sent to a concentrated
quarantine facility on March 4 and admitted to hospital three days later after testing
positive for the virus.
To date, 17 out of Vietnam’s 85 confirmed
COVID-19 cases have fully recovered and been discharged from hospital./.
Source: VietnamPlus
