A 53-year-old woman with mutiple pre-existing medical conditions was logged the 53rd death from coronavirus-related complications in Vietnam, the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control announced on Saturday. 

The woman, who hailed from Son La Province, was admitted to Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi after experiencing recurrent fever and limb numbness about two and a half months ago.

After seven days in treatment, the symptoms of the patient persisted, while her limbs gradually weakened. 

She was transferred to the Dong Anh District branch of the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi over nerve root compression on April 1. 

Here, she was diagnosed with prolonged fever, Klebsiella, and nerve root compression, pneumonia, invasive fungal infection, and was put under monitoring for systemic lupus and a herniated disc.

The patient underwent positive treatment and received outside-the-body life support, blood filtration, broad-spectrum antibiotics, corticosteroid, and intensive care.

She was weaned off the outside-the-body life support after one month of positive treatment, but she tested positive for the novel coronavirus on May 5, exhibiting symptoms of fever, respiratory distress, acidosis, as well as septic shock and organ failure. 

She was put on the outside-the-body life support and in intensive care once again, but saw no signs of recovery. 

The patient was deemed a grave case by experts from the Ministry of Health and eventually died on Friday.

Vietnam has registered 8,580 patients, including 3,310 recoveries and 53 deaths, since the COVID-19 pandemic first hit the country on January 23, 2020, according to the Ministry of Health’s data.

Since April 27, when the pandemic’s fourth wave and the worst so far began in Vietnam, 5,460 patients have been documented across the Southeast Asian country.

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