Medical staff conduct COVID-19 testing in a lab. (Photo: Ministry of Health)Hanoi (VNA) – The are urgently setting
up two temporary hospitals to provide care for COVID-19 patients in the
northern provinces of Bac Ninh and Bac Giang, which are the two provinces
affected the worst by the current COVID-19 resurgence in Vietnam.
The two facilities, one located on the ground of the
Political Officers College’s No.2 campus in city and the other at
Regiment 831 of the Bac Giang Military Command in Viet Yen district, are
scheduled to begin receive patients from 5pm on May 19.
Each has 300 beds and close to 120 medical workers. Their
capacity can be raised to 500 beds if required.
A COVID-19 checkpoint is set up between Bac Ninh city and Bac Giang’s Viet Yen district. (Photo: VNA)According to the Ministry of National Defence’s General
Department of Logistics, the hospitals are designed to offer emergency care and
treatment for COVID-19 patients in a bid to help the two provinces swiftly keep
the coronavirus at bay.
In a meeting with the ministry’s steering committee for
COVID-19 prevention and control on May 16, Minister of National Defence Phan
Van Giang said his ministry will deploy more officers and vehicles to support
pandemic-hit localities in fighting the fourth wave.
Meanwhile, the National Institute of Hygiene and
Epidemiology on May 19 announced that B.1.617.2 – the Indian variant of
coronavirus – has been found in 29 samples collected in Vietnam. They include
10 in Hanoi, five in the Vietnam National Cancer Hospital’s Tan Trieu facility,
nine in Bac Giang, two in Bac Ninh, two in Vinh Phuc and one in Hai Phong.
The UK’s B.1.17 variant, meanwhile, were detected in two
samples collected in Hai Duong./.
Source: VietnamPlus
