Additional 14 COVID-19 patients declared fully recovered

Fourteen COVID-19 patients recovered and were released from two treatment facilities in the southern provinces of Bac Lieu and Dong Thap on June 1 afternoon.

A COVID-19 patient at Sa Dec General Hospital, Dong Thap Province, declared as recovered on June 1 afternoon. (Photo: suckhoedoisong.vn)
A COVID-19 patient at Sa Dec General Hospital, Dong Thap Province, declared as recovered on June 1 afternoon. (Photo: suckhoedoisong.vn)

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The newly recovered patients have brought the country’s total cases being given the all-clear to 293, making up 89.3% of total COVID-19 confirmed cases in Vietnam, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control’s Sub-committee for Treatment.

They are all Vietnamese nationals, including a 3-month-old baby known as Patient 274. The boy was admitted to the hospital on May 7. During treatment, the patient had five tests and all tests were negative for SARS-CoV-2 from May 25 to 28.

All of them were all imported cases, discovered to have contracted the virus as they returned from the UAE on a specially-arranged repatriation flight that landed in the southern province of Can Tho on May 3.

They were immediately quarantined upon arrival and posed no risks of community transmission.

Currently, the patients have no fever, no cough, no shortness of breath and are in a stable condition. They will continue to be quarantined and monitored for the next 14 days.

As of 6 pm on June 1, Vietnam reported no COVID-19 cases, making it the 46th days straight without community transmission.

The total number of COVID-19 confirmed cases in the country remains at 328, with zero fatalities.

The remaining 35 COVID-19 patients are being treated at centrally- and provincially-run hospitals. All of them are in stable condition.

Seven patients tested negative for the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 once, and 12 others tested negative for the virus twice or more.

At present, 7,256 people having close contact with patients or entering from pandemic-hit areas are being quarantined, including 23 at hospitals, 6,301 at concentrated quarantine establishments and 932 at home and place of residence.