Fit and healthy young people must not become complacent over COVID-19, according to the deputy director of the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases.
Vietnam recorded 58 new cases of COVID-19 over the past six hours to 6 p.m on May 21, including one imported case who had been quarantined upon their arrival, the Ministry of Health said.
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Hanoi (VNA) - The
banking sector and 4 million doses of COVID-19
vaccines from
Vingroup at a ceremony on May 21.
Addressing the ceremony, Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said that under the
direction of the Politburo, the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat, the
Government, the Prime Minister, the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention
and Control, and the Ministry of Health, and with the involvement of the entire
political system, Vietnam has brought three outbreaks under control and is
gradually controlling a fourth.
As part of efforts to access COVID-19 vaccines, the Ministry of Health has
Vietnam records 39th coronavirus death
By Chi Le May 20, 2021 | 02:58 pm GMT+7
Medical workers operate at a quarantine ward for Covid-19 patients at Hanoi s National Hospital for Tropical Diseases, March 24, 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Ngoc Thanh.
An 81-year-old Covid patient has died in Hanoi, becoming Vietnam s 39th coronavirus death and fourth in the ongoing outbreak.
His cause of death was determined to be Covid-19, septic shock, blood sepsis, cirrhosis and diabetes, among others, the Health Ministry said Thursday afternoon.
The man was admitted to the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases for blood sepsis on May 3. He tested positive for the coronavirus on May 11, and was sent to the ICU to be put on ventilators and ECMO.