Two more COVID-19 patients die in Vietnam
VOV.VN - Two elderly patients in Vietnam have died of COVID-19 and other underlying health conditions, raising the country’s total number of COVID-19 related deaths to 69.
One of the two patients, an 86-year-old woman of Bac Giang province, tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus on May 25.
She showed serious shortness of breath four days later and had since relied on mechanical ventilation and dialysis due to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a type of respiratory failure.
Despite intensive treatment, the patient died on June 20 of septic shock, ARDS, multi-organ failure, pneumonia and COVID-19.
The other female patient, 67 of Ho Chi Minh City, suffered from high blood pressure, and diabetes (type II).
She was diagnosed with the SARS-CoV-2 virus on June 16 and her health had since deteriorated with damaged lungs plus progressive respiratory failure and sepsis.
The patient died early on June 21.
These are the 33rd and 34th COVID-19 deaths Vietnam has recorded during the latest coronavirus outbreak and the 68th and 69th deaths since last year. .
