Five additional COVID-19 patients receive all-clear
VOV.VN - A further five novel coronavirus (COVID-19) patients who had been treated in the central city of Da Nang and the northern province of Nam Dinh were declared to be free of the SARS-CoV-2 virus on the morning of September 3.
Three of the patients, all of whom reside in Da Nang, were discharged from the Da Nang Hospital for Lung Diseases after getting the all-clear from health experts. Of them is a 19-year-old student from the Da Nang University of Technology who had been receiving treatment for 37 days after suffering from a prolonged fever.
It is believed that the young man contracted COVID-19 during a visit to his grandmother at Da Nang Hospital, later being admitted to the Da Nang Hospital for Lung Diseases on July 27 after testing positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Along with the three cases in Da Nang, two imported cases from Russia were announced to have made a full recovery from COVID-19 at a general hospital in the northern province of Nam Dinh.
Each of the cases are now in a stable health condition and have tested negative for COVID-19 at least three times.
They will now undergo a period of home quarantine for a further 14 days in line with regulations put forward by the Health Ministry.
At present the nation has recorded 1,046 infections and 35 COVID-19 related deaths.