A 27-year-old Vietnamese man has recovered from the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) following his treatment in the northern province of Ninh Binh.
N.V.T. was discharged from the Ninh Binh Province General Hospital on Friday morning after he had tested negative for the novel coronavirus for three times.
All of the tests were conducted by the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, according to provincial health director Vu Manh Duong.
T., who hails from the northern province of Thai Binh, returned to Vietnam from Daegu City, South Korea’s COVID-19 epicenter, in late February and tested positive for the virus, becoming Vietnam’s patient No. 18.
T. and other passengers on his flight were quarantined in Ninh Binh immediately after arriving, pursuant to a requirement for anyone returning from COVID-19-hit areas in South Korea.
This is the first and only recovery so far out of 69 cases confirmed in Vietnam since March 6 – the country’s ‘second batch’ of patients.
Ten other patients among this batch have tested negative for the virus for the first time since receiving treatment.
However, a 64-year-old Hanoi woman infected with the virus is now in bad health and undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), a form of life support.
The novel coronavirus, which first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019, has infected over 245,800 people and killed more than 10,000 globally as of Friday afternoon, according to Ministry of Health statistics.
Vietnam’s COVID-19 tally has soared to 85, with 17 having fully recovered and been discharged from the hospital, including patient No. 18.
No death from COVID-19 has been reported in the country so far.
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