Twelve people were new Covid-19 patients, raising the nation’s tally to 558 Saturday morning, the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control reported.
All of twelve new cases are linked country coronavirus hotpot of Da Nang, taking Vietnam’s cases of community transmission in the last fews days to 116.
Vietnam reported two deaths from Covid-19 on Friday, they are a 70-year-old man and patient #437 61-year-old man and #428, who with multiple underlying health issues. These are the first two deaths of anyone who contracted the disease in the country. The Health & Life newspaper, which run by Ministry of Health reported.
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The Health Ministry said patients had died of “myocardial infarction caused by chronic diseases of hypertension, heart failure, end-stage of chronic renal failure and complications of respiratory failure due to heart failure and Covid-19.”
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Of the 558 Covid-19 cases recorded so far, 373 have recovered. More than 53,000 people are in quarantine across the country.
The pandemic has infected more than 17.5 million people worldwide with recorded deaths crossing 677,000.
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Source: Vietnam Insider