Doctors treat patients in a hospital in central Quang Nam province (Photo courtesy of doctor Luong Quoc Chinh)two-month-old baby girl is among 11 new COVID-19 cases announced on August 16 evening, bringing the national
total to 962.
Eight
of the new patients are in
central Da Nang city, one in the
capital city of Hanoi and two who came on repatriation flights into the country.
The
National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control also announced
that nine more people have been given the all-clear, bringing the total number
of recoveries to 456.
The
baby who has tested positive lives in the same house in Cam Le in Da Nang as another person who had
previously contracted the virus.
The
patient in the capital city is a 30-year-man who lives in Thanh Xuan district.
He had visited Da Nang from July
20-22 and began to suffer a fever on August 3.
Initial
tests results were negative but on August
15 a second sample was taken and he tested positive for
SARS-CoV-2.
The
two imported cases are both Vietnamese citizens repatriated from Japan.
As many as 107,642 people are currently quarantined at
hospitals, concentrated quarantine facilities and their
homes.
So
far, 24 people have lost their lives due to COVID-19-related complications./.
Source: VietnamPlus
