Infection

Two staff of the microbiology division have been infected with the virus, and one of them is the wife of an IT staff of the Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases who had been confirmed as a COVID-19 case. Hearing that her husband tested positive on June 12, the wife immediately made health declaration and underwent a COVID-19 test,with the result coming back positive. The hospital moved to test all staff of the microbiology division and another positive test was recorded. Earlier, the Hospital for Tropical Diseases documented the first COVID-19 case on June 12 and it has confirmed 53 cases during the past 24 hours. The hospital has been locked down for contact tracing, quarantine and chemical disinfection. HCM City, Vietnam’s third largest coronavirus hotspot, has logged nearly 800 positive cases since the virus resurged in late April. The latest outbreak has been brought under control, according to the local administration. Several cases have however been detected in the community and the source of infection remains unknown. …

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Illustrative photo (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam domestically recorded 57 more COVID-19 infections over the past 12 hours to 6:00am on May 25, according to the Health Ministry. The cases comprised 45 in Bac Giang, two in Bac Ninh, four in Hanoi, four in Lang Son, and two in Ha Nam. The new infections brought the national tally to 5,461, including 3,975 domestically-transmitted cases. The number of new patients posted since on April 27 when the latest wave of outbreaks hit the country amounted to 2,405. Vietnam’s total number of recoveries from the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 reached 2,794. The death toll stood at 44. Among active patients, 70 tested negative to coronavirus once, 41 twice, and 69 thrice. The entire nation saw 165,935 people under quarantine and health monitoring across hospitals, residencies and other facilities. Since April 29, 890,454 COVID-19 tests have been conducted./. VNA …

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Number of Covid-19 patients at HCMC Hospital for Tropical Diseases rises to 53 The Saigon Times Employees of the HCMC Hospital of Tropical Diseases come to the hospital for quarantine. As many as 53 employees of the hospital have tested positive for Covid-19 – PHOTO: TNO HCMC – The HCMC Hospital for Tropical Diseases today completed testing 887 employees, using the real-time RT-PCR method, and 53 of them tested positive for Covid-19, including 22 cases reported yesterday. All the 53 cases have got two shots of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine and 52 of them reported no symptoms of Covid-19. The 53 cases are employees of the IT, administrative, general planning, personnel organization and pharmacy departments. They are being treated at the hospital’s departments of infection control A and D. Three days ago, the hospital tested its employees who have directly contacted Covid-19 patients treated at the hospital and all of them tested negative. According to an investigation jointly conducted by the hospital and the HCMC Center for Disease Control, the sources of infection of the cases may come from outside the hospital. The hospital has also tested 88 critical patients treated for tetanus, encephalitis, HIV/AIDS and chronic liver diseases at the hospital and the result of all of them was negative. The HCMC Hospital for Tropical Diseases is treating 94 coronavirus patients, 35 of whom are in critical condition. This morning, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son came to the hospital to direct the fight against the pandemic. Accordingly, the hospital will stop receiving new Covid-19 patients for a week. The municipal Department of Health will assign other Covid-19 treatment hospitals in the city to admit Covid-19 patients. The treatment of critical patients will be supported by Cho Ray Hospital. On the same day, two employees of Gia Dinh Hospital’s Microbiology Department were also found to be infected with Covid-19, with one being …

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