A supermarket in Thu Dau Mot city of Binh Duong province is sealed off on June 19 due to its connection with a COVID-19 patient (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The treatment section under the National Steering Committee for
COVID-19 Prevention and Control on June 20 announced two new deaths from
COVID-19-related complications, raising the pandemic death toll in the country to 66.
The
latest fatalities are men aged 53 and 80. Both of them were being treated for a
number of .
The 53-year-old, from the
northern province of Vinh Phuc, was being treated for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
since September 2020 and had undergone nine chemotherapy
sessions at the Tan Trieu facility of the in
Hanoi.
He tested positive for
COVID-19 while at the hospital and was transferred to the National Hospital for
Tropical Diseases in Hanoi where his conditions worsened resulted in his death
in the early morning of June 19.
His
cause of death is recorded as septic shock, pneumonia, COVID-19 in patients
with treatment-resistant non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, hypertension, and renal
failure.
The second patient, from the
northern city of Bac Ninh, also died on the same day. He had a history of
hypertension, kidney failure and asthma.
The 80-year-old man tested
positive for COVID-19 on May 25 and was moved from Bac Ninh Provincial
General Hospital to the .
The condition of his lungs
rapidly deteriorated and due to his advanced age and weak health, he did not
respond to treatment.
His cause of death has
been noted as multi-organ failure, pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2 in patients
with renal failure, hypertension, heart failure and bronchial asthma.
The two new deaths brought
the casualties in the fourth wave of infections (since late April) to
31./.
Source: VietnamPlus
