Health workers take samples for testing in Ha Loi village of Me Linh commune, Hanoi’s Me Linh district (Photo: VNA)47-year-old woman in Hanoi is the latest person testing positive for the novel
SARS-CoV-2, raising the total number of COVID-19 cases in Vietnam
to 258, the (MoH) said on April 11 evening.
The new patient resides in Ha
Loi village, Me Linh commune, Me Linh district. She is the mother of the 257th
patient who is being treated at the National Hospital for Tropical
Diseases No.2 in Hanoi’s Dong Anh district.
So far, 144 COVID-19 cases in Vietnam have made a full recovery.
At present, more than 72,500 people are quarantined at hospitals, their homes
and other places across the country.
Meanwhile, Bach Mai Hospital
in the capital, a hot spot for infection in recent weeks, will remove
quarantine barriers at the stroke of midnight following a decision of Chairman
of the Dong Da district People’s Committee Vo Nguyen Phong.
For the past two weeks, staff and patients have been locked down inside the
medical facility after a number of people connected to the hospital tested
positive.
But now regulations set by the MoH have been met, and the hospital will remove
quarantine restrictions. It will continue to conduct preventive and control
measures to stop any further spread of the virus./.
Source: VietnamPlus
