A 69-year-old man in the central Da Nang City succumbed to Covid-19 on Monday morning, becoming Vietnam’s 33rd coronavirus fatality.
The man was pronounced at the Da Nang Hospital for Lung Diseases due to severe pneumonia and respiratory failure caused by Covid-19, septic shock complications, multiple organ failure and heart attack.
He had several underlying conditions, including heart failure, kidney failure, atrial fibrillation and diabetes.
Vietnam only started recording Covid-19 deaths from July 31, with the victims aged between 28 and 93. Most fatalities suffered several underlying conditions like diabetes, heart failure and kidney failure.
The country has recorded 1,040 Covid-19 cases so far, 309 being active.
“Patient 1040,” a 55-year-old man in Da Nang, died just hours before his test results returned positive for the novel coronavirus on Friday and was thus not counted as a Covid-19 death. He had several underlying conditions, including diabetes and muscle weakness caused by the Guillain–Barré syndrome.
The country has recorded no new cases of the disease in the last 36 hours.
Reported by Chi Le, Le Nga, @Vnexpress
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Source: Vietnam Insider