Three more patients who had been infected by the novel coronavirus (nCoV) were released from hospital on February 10 after recovering.
Three patients, two women and a man, pose for a photo with doctors before being discharged from hospital on February 10. Photo by nld
The three patients, two women aged 23 and 29 and a 30-year-old man, were among a group of eight workers who all got the deadly virus after returning from a training course in China's Wuhan City in mid January.
Director of the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Pham Ngoc Thach, confirmed that the three patients have recovered after two weeks of treatment with no more fever or coughs.
"Their two latest tests using RT-PCR technology taken on February 6 and 8 showed they were negative for the nCoV," the doctor said.
Earlier, three nCoV patients also got over the disease and were discharged from hospital after getting active treatment in Vietnam.
A 28-year-old Chinese patient who was admitted to HCM City-based Cho Ray Hospital on January 22 after being found infected by the nCoV, was discharged on February 4.
Also on February 4, a female Vietnamese receptionist at a hotel in the southern central province of Khanh Hoa’s Nha Trang City was also discharged from hospital after receiving treatment for the virus at a local hospital.
On February 3, a female Vietnamese patient who was infected by the virus was also discharged from Thanh Hoa General Hospital after undergoing 10 days of isolation in addition to follow-up treatment.
Vietnam confirmed the 14th nCoV infection case on February 9 according to the Ministry of Health.
The newly-detected patient, a 55-year-old woman, is a neighbour of the 23-year-old worker in Vinh Phuc Province who had also transmitted the virus to her mother, younger sister and aunt. She paid a visit to the infected worker’s home on January 28 during the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival. She is among those who had close contact with the confirmed patient and has been closely monitored since then by the provincial disease control centre. She showed symptoms of fever, headache and sniveling on February 4. She was then brought to a clinic in Binh Xuyen district, Vinh Phuc province, for quarantine, check-up and treatment.
Her sample was tested positive for the virus by the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology. She is now in stable health conditions at the local clinic.
By 11:00 on February 9, a total of 759 cases had samples tested in Vietnam and 14 of them positive for nCoV, including nine in Vinh Phuc province.