Four patients who contracted COVID-19 in the latest outbreak hitting Vietnam have recovered from the disease and were discharged from the Da Nang Lung Hospital on August 10.
The four patients (holding papers) are discharged from the Da Nang Lung Hospital on August 10 (Photo: VNA)
Da Nang (VNA) - Fourpatients who contracted COVID-19 in the latest outbreak hitting Vietnam haverecovered from the disease and were discharged from the Da Nang Lung Hospital onAugust 10.
The hospital’s director Le Thanh Phuc said the femalepatients had tested negative for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causesCOVID-19, four times.
They were sent home and will be quarantined andmonitored for a further 14 days by health workers, he said, noting that threeof them reside in central Da Nang city while the other is in nearby Quang Ngaiprovince.
Two of the patients are health workers at the DaNang Hospital, which was a hotspot in the new COVID-19 outbreak, and tested positiveon July 27. The two others cared for relatives at the hospital and testedpositive two days later.
There were 257 COVID-19 patients undergoingtreatment in Da Nang as of 8am on August 10, and many have tested negative forSARS-CoV-2 between one and four times, according to the municipal Department ofHealth.
The COVID-19 tally in Vietnam currently standsat 841, including 384 cases related to Da Nang in the new outbreak that startedon July 25, with 399 recoveries and 13 fatalities./.
Vietnam reported no new COVID-19 cases between 6 pm on August 9 and 6 am on August 10, keeping the national count at 841, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
Two more COVID-19 patients died early August 10, raising the country’s total death toll to 13, said Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son later the same day.
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The four patients (holding papers) are discharged from the Da Nang Lung Hospital on August 10 (Photo: VNA) 
