Wednesday, February 10, 2021, 08:09 GMT+7
Health workers handle COVID-19 test tubes in Vietnam. Photo: Tran Chinh
Vietnam confirmed one domestic COVID-19 case on Wednesday morning, with the confirmation given only after the fourth test.
The 22-year-old patient was registered in northern Bac Giang Province, the Ministry of Health said.
He started to be quarantined on February 1, when his wife was recorded as patient 1,820.
He had tested negative for the coronavirus three times before his fourth test came back positive on Tuesday.
The patient is being isolated for treatment at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi.
The Ministry of Health announced 16 local infections on Tuesday.
Vietnam documented one locally-transmitted COVID-19 case in the northern province of Bac Giang in the past 12 hours as of 6 am on February 10, taking the national tally from the latest outbreak to 484 cases, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
Việt Nam on Tuesday afternoon recorded 16 new COVID-19 cases, including 13 community infections connected to known outbreaks, and three imported cases, pushing the country’s caseload to 2,069.
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08/02/2021 16:28 GMT+7
The Hanoi Centre for Disease Control this morning announced four new COVID-19 cases, including one woman who came into contact with a confirmed case nearly two weeks ago but withheld the information from contact tracers.
The Garden Hill apartment building, No.99 Tran Binh Street, Nam Tu Liem District, in lockdown after three cases of COVID-19 were recorded on Monday. Photo vov.vn
The 28-year-old woman, whose name was given as N.T.K.A, residing at the Garden Hill apartment building, No.99 Tran Binh Street, Nam Tu Liem District, reportedly came into contact with Patient No. 1,722 (connected to the outbreak at a military-run factory in Hanoi, confirmed positive on January 30) on January 26 at the gate of the building.
UK coronavirus variant may cause earlier lung damage among Vietnam patients
By Chi Le, Le Phuong February 4, 2021 | 02:29 pm GMT+7
A medical expert prepares to take samples from workers at a Covid-19 hotpsot in Hai Duong Province, northern Vietnam, January 28, 2021. Photo by VnExpress/The Quynh.
The U.K. coronavirus variant seems to be causing lung damage faster than previous strains, according to preliminary patient reports in northern Hai Duong Province.
Nguyen Trung Cap, deputy director of the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases, said most of the patients in Hai Duong did not have noticeable symptoms, making it difficult to determine the exact time of exposure. Cap and his colleagues were sent by the Ministry of Health to Hai Duong, Vietnam s biggest Covid-19 hotspot at present, to work at Chi Linh Town s Field Hospital 1, where 165 patients are being treated.