The workers arrive at the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases’ Campus No.2 outside Hanoi’s downtown area (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – All 20 COVID-19 patients returning from are
now in good health, said deputy director of the National Hospital for Tropical
Diseases Nguyen Trung Cap on August 3.
According to him, all 219 Vietnamese workers who returned to Vietnam from
on July 29 have been tested and only 20 of them positive
for the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, he said.
The
Vietnamese workers had been stranded in the African country, with initial
information asserting that nearly half of them already confirmed positive for
SARS-CoV-2.
Cap explained that many of the workers were confirmed to be suffering from
in Equatorial Guinea but had tested negative now possibly because
they had recovered from the disease.
However, health care workers are still cautious and strictly deploying disease
preventive measures to avoid risks of cross-infection, he said.
He added that all nine critical patients in the group, including six patients
with lung damage and three with malaria, had seen their conditions improve.
“We have been closely monitoring such complicated cases as we foresee risks if
we ignore other diseases that the COVID-19 patients also have,” Cap said,
adding that so far, there were no serious complications.
The
219 workers, the flight crew of eight and four health care workers who escorted
the repatriation flight were taken into quarantine at the Kim Chung branch
of the right after their arrival in Hanoi’s
Noi Bai International Airport.
Earlier, all patients at the hospital were moved to the hospital’s campus in
downtown Hanoi to make room for, and to be safe from a large
number of coronavirus carrying returnees./.
Source: VietnamPlus
