Personnel of the Hanoi Military High Command’s military school carry out medical work for quarantined citizens. (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam’s COVID-19 death toll
rose to 23 after a 75-year-old man in the central city of Da Nang died, the Health
Ministry’s special task force for in Da Nang
said on August 15.
The patient had also suffered from chronic kidney failure,
hypertension, type-2 diabetes, and heart failure.
He died at the Hoa Vang medical centre and was
diagnosed with pneumonia caused by COVID-19 complications, severe respiratory
failure, septic shock, in a patient with chronic renal failure, hypertension,
and type-2 diabetes.
The National Steering Committee for COVID-19
Prevention and Control on August 15 afternoon reported 20 new cases of
, bringing the national tally to 950.
Among the new cases, four are in the central province
of Quang Nam, 11 in Da Nang, one in the northern province of Hai Duong, and
four in Ho Chi Minh City.
Patient 950 in Hai Duong is a 15-year-old boy who had
close contact with Patient 906.
The four patients in HCM City flew from the US to Tan
Son Nhat International Airport on August 4, and were quarantined upon arrival.
Of the total infections confirmed in Vietnam so far, 333
were imported and quarantined upon entry, and 477 are linked to the outbreak in
as from July 25.
As many as 437 patients have made full recovery.
Some 115,860 who had close contact with COVID-19
patients or came from pandemic-hit areas are under quarantine nationwide./.
Source: VietnamPlus
