Saturday, May 15, 2021, 15:56 GMT+7
Vietnam’s National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control confirmed the 36th COVID-19 death on Saturday, which was recorded in northern Bac Ninh Province.
The 89-year-old woman, recognized as patient No. 3,839, died of underlying health conditions, according to the committee.
She lived in Bac Ninh’s Thuan Thanh District and was a direct contact of patient No. 3,521, who had been quarantined previously.
The test result on Thursday showed that the woman was positive for the novel coronavirus.
She was admitted to the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi on the same day, where she was diagnosed with severe pneumonia due to COVID-19, progressive respiratory failure with a history of type-2 diabetes, hypertension for many years, and lumbar vertebral collapse - for which she had undergone a surgery on April 6.
Sunday, March 14, 2021, 10:08 GMT+7
A health worker receives a shot of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine in Vietnam. Photo: Tuoi Tre
While 26 percent of recipients of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine in Vietnam have exhibited mild to severe local reactions, a health official reassured the reaction rates observed so far are “equivalent” to those in other types of inoculation.
COVID-19 vaccination in Vietnam began on Monday, and by Friday about 5,300 people in 12 provinces and cities had received their first jab of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Among them, 26 percent exhibited local reactions, according to the country’s Preventive Medicine Department (PMD) vice-director Nguyen Minh Hang.
Sunday, February 21, 2021, 19:57 GMT+7
A medical worker handles test tube in Hai Duong Province, Vietnam. Photo: Tien Thang / Tuoi Tre
Vietnam’s National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control recorded 15 new cases of local transmission along with 90 recovered patients on Sunday.
Fourteen of the infections were direct contacts of infected patients while the other was detected in an isolated area, the committee said, noting that all had been quarantined before their diagnosis.
The committee also confirmed 90 recoveries the same day, all in Hai Duong Province, which is Vietnam’s current COVID-19 epicenter.
The pathogen re-emerged in the Southeast Asian nation on January 27 after it had spent almost two months detecting zero domestic infections, the health ministry said.