Six new cases, one more COVID-19-related death reported

Disinfecting a restaurant related to three patients in Hai Duong (Source: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – The National Steering Committee for COVID-19
Prevention and Control reported and one more disease-related
death on August 14 morning.

Among the six new cases, three are from the
northern province of Hai Duong, who all came into contact with the 867th
patient.

Three patients are from central Quang Nam province.
All of them are relatives of the 722nd patient.

There have now been a total of 911 people
testing positive for the coronavirus since the first case was detected back in
January.

A further four people have recovered from
the virus, taking the total number of patients successfully treated to 425.

Meanwhile, a 61-year-old woman in central Da
Nang city’s Hoa Vang district became the 21st fatality related to the
SARS-CoV-2.

She had a number of underlying medical
conditions including type-2 diabetes, hypertension and obesity.

On July 10, she was admitted to Da Nang
Hospital. After being discharged from hospital a week later, she then began
showing signs of fever, complained of tiredness and had difficulty breathing.
She came back to hospital on July 21.

On July 31 after testing positive for the
virus she was quarantined at the Hoa Vang District Medical Centre. Her
condition worsened and she was placed on a ventilator to help her breath before
being transferred to the Da Nang Lung Hospital.

On August 12, she developed septic shock,
acute liver failure, acute kidney damage, a severe drop in blood pressure and
irreversible vasomotor disorder. She was pronounced dead at 10pm.

The cause of death has been recorded as
pneumonia caused by COVID-19 complications, severe respiratory failure, septic
shock with multi-organ damage, hypertension and obesity./.