Health & Education

The newly-identified cases drove the infection in Hanoi to 53 and Ho Chi Minh City to 41.

UDIC has mobilized its human and material resources to work three shifts per day to soon put the hospital into operation.

Currently, Bach Mai Hospital has provided hand sanitizers at positions which are at high risk of exposure such as elevators, doors, among others.

All the seven patients confirmed on Wednesday are Vietnamese.

Six out of 11 the newly-detected cases are from Ho Chi Minh City.

Vietnam has not used chloroquine to treat Covid-19, neither has the health ministry recommended the drug to prevent the disease.

A doctor in Hanoi who is responsible for treating Covid-19 patients is among the infected cases today.

The doctor at the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases in Hanoi has participated in the fight against the pandemic since the end of January.

Nearly half of the newly-detected cases are students coming from Europe.

Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi city still carries out medical examination and emergency as usual.

A health official affirms that there’s no secondary transmission at Bach Mai Hospital so far.

The man, identified as “patient 18”, was allowed to go home after having tested negative for the coronavirus three times.

The new cases announced on March 19 have lifted the toll of infections in the country to 85, including 16 cured and discharged from hospital by February 26.

More than two million pupils in the city from kindergarten to university will have two more weeks off.

Four new cases today were found in Hanoi, putting the city at the top in Vietnam with 20 infected people.

The Ministry of Health has built plans to treat more than 3,000 Covid-19 patients.

Vietnam's doctors will keep consulting and providing daily professional support for the treatment of the two patients in serious conditions.

Of the 61 active cases, 18 are foreigners, including 13 Britons.

Hanoi now has 12 cases positive with the virus, the largest number of infections in Vietnam.

Among the 53 positive cases so far, 17 are foreign citizens and 36 Vietnamese.