Samples taken for quick testing (Photo: VNA)reported no new COVID-19 infection
cases on April 18 evening, keeping the total number at 268 over the past 60
hours.
As of April 18, up to 201 out of 268 COVID-19
patients, or three quarters, across the country have fully recovered, reported
the Treatment Subcommittee under the National Steering Committee for
Prevention and Control.
Three more people,
including a man from the UK and a married couple from Brazil, were given the
all-clear on April 18 after treatment at hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City.
One of them is a
34-year-old British man who after initially testing positive had a number of
subsequent tests during treatment at the Can Gio COVID-19 Treatment Hospital
which all came back negative.
The couple from
Brazil, a 45-year-old woman and her 49-year-old husband, had been treated at
the Cu Chi COVID-19 Treatment Hospital in HCM City.
All three patients
will have to undergo quarantine for the next 14 days and their health will be monitored.
Among 67 patients
currently in hospital with the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, 14 have recorded
one negative test, and five have twice tested negative, according to the subcommittee.
There are 62,998
people currently in quarantine nationwide. Among these, 279 people are quarantined
at hospitals, 11,338 others are kept at concentrated quarantine sites and
51,381 are self-quarantined at home./.
Source: VietnamPlus
