Some new COVID-19 patients initially test negative

Illustrative image (Source: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Some of the 41 new COVID-19 patients who are being treated at
hospitals across Vietnam have turned up negative for the after the
first test.

They
include a Vietnamese at the general hospital of the northern province of Ninh
Binh whose first test was conducted on March 14. He now shows no symptoms of
the disease like cough and fever.

Initial
testing results of two foreigners at the in the central city
of Da Nang and a British woman at the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases
No. 2 in Hanoi’s outskirts district of Dong Anh were also negative.

Currently,
the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases is providing treatment for 15
COVID-19 patients, most of them now in stable health conditions while the
conditions of two others, a 69-year-old British citizen and a 64-year-old
Vietnamese, are worsening.

Vietnam
has confirmed 57 cases so far, 16 of them discharged from hospital
after their complete recovery./.