Vietnam’s total COVID-19 cases increase to 265

Among the ,
two live in , Hanoi’s . There are now 12
people with coronavirus connected to the village.
The 263rd patient is
a female, 45, living in Ha Loi village. She showed signs of fever, sore throat
and cough on March 25. Her sample was taken for testing on April 11.

A 24-year-old girl in the same village is the 264th patient. Her sample was
taken on April 11 as part of a large scale test carried out for local
residents after a number of cases were discovered in the village.

The two patients are being treated at the National Hospital for Tropical Disease
No.2 in Hanoi’s Dong Anh district.

More than 11,000 residents have been locked down inside the village. More than
6,800 of them have tested for SARS-CoV-2 and are waiting for the results.

The 265th
patient, 26, lives in the central province of Ha Tinh. He returned to Vietnam
from Thailand on March 23 via the Cha Lo border gate in the neighbouring
province of Quang Binh.

He was taken to a
quarantine centre in Ha Tinh province right after returning to Vietnam. His
sample tested positive for the virus on April 12. He is being
treated at a local hospital in Ha Tinh.

According to the Sub-Committee of Treatment of the
National Steering Committee for Prevention and Control, one more
COVID-19 patient recovered and was discharged from the Bac Lieu General
Hospital on April 13, lifting the country’s total number of recoveries to 145.

The
recovered is patient number 155, female, 21, Vietnamese nationality. She was
admitted to the hospital on March 23./.