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Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam recorded no new in the past 12 hours, remaining
at 270, but five people who had previously been given the all-clear were
.
According to the April 25 morning report from the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and
Control, Vietnam has reported zero deaths from so far.
Among the five positive again,
patient No.188 was discharged from Ha Nam General Hospital on April 16 after
her results came back negative twice. She was put in quarantine for two weeks,
during which she was monitored by the Hanoi Centre of Disease Control,
re-tested frequently at the National Hospital for Tropical Disease in Hanoi and
the results came back positive on April 21.
Patients No.52 and No.149 were
declared recovered by Hospital No.2 in the northern province of Quang Ninh on
April 16 and remained in quarantine there for another two weeks. On April 21,
the hospital conducted tests for the two patients and their results returned
positive.
Patient No.137 was declared recovered from the National Hospital for Tropical
Disease in Hanoi on April 7 after testing results came back negative three
times on three consecutive days (April 3-5).
During the two-week quarantine, she exhibited no clinical symptoms of the
disease and all testing results on April 7, April 16 and April 19 came back
negative. The CT scan of the patient’s lung did not show any signs of damage
and the patient was allowed to be returned home on April 22 after her two weeks
in hospital quarantine ends.
On April 23, the Central Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in Hanoi
confirmed that the tests results came back positive again, and the patient was
brought back to the hospital.
Another relapse case was in the southern province of Binh Thuan. Patient No.36
was confirmed to be free of the virus on April 10 after testing negative three
times. During the following two-week quarantine at a medical facility in the
province, the patient’s test results came back negative twice before a third
test on the final day of the quarantine showed positive results.
The patient is being quarantined for further medical monitoring.
On April 24 evening, two new
cases were detected, both students returning home from Japan. They were
immediately quarantined and are currently being treated for the virus.
As many as 54,966 people are
currently in quarantine and have their health status monitored across the
country./.
Source: VietnamPlus
