Giving health checkups to foreign experts and workers before quarantine (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Five months after the
first were reported in Vietnam, the number of confirmed
cases in the country reached 349 as of June 23 morning, with no new cases
reported overnight.
According to the National Steering Committee for
Prevention and Control, Vietnam entered its 68th consecutive day
without any .
No fatalities have been recorded and 328
patients, or 94 percent of the total, have been given the all-clear. Among
the 349 so far, 209 were imported and quarantined upon arrival.
A total of 7,157 people are under medical
monitoring or quarantine, of whom 124 are quarantined at hospitals, 6,159 at
medical stations and 874 at home.
Among 21 active patients, three have tested negative for the coronavirus once
and three others at least twice.
The country has been hailed by many leading
organisations and media across the world for its success in responding to the
COVID-19 pandemic, although it shares a long border with China where
the virus was first detected.
From the experience gained during the SARS
outbreak in 2003, Vietnam has been proactive in treating COVID-19 patients,
with the key method creating a well-ventilated environment, not using
air conditioning and regularly disinfecting.
Vietnam’s health workers are said to have been
making miracles, especially with what they have done with the 91st patient
– a British pilot named Stephen Cameron, the most severe COVID-19 case so far
in the country./.
Source: VietnamPlus
