Five patients were discharged in HCMC and 16 in Hanoi on Tuesday after recovering from Covid-19, taking the tally of current cases down to 98.
Three men in HCMC, dubbed patients 124, 127 and 158, had been admitted to the Cu Chi Field Hospital after being or working at the Buddha Bar & Grill, a major outbreak site in Saigon, or having contact with an infected person.
“Patient 124” and “Patient 128” are Brazilians, respectively 52 and 45, living in District 2. The former visited the bar on March 14 and was diagnosed with the disease on March 24, and the latter contracted it from him and was diagnosed on March 27.
“Patient 127,” 23, of Tan Phu District, worked as a waiter at the bar and tested positive also on March 24.
The other two discharged in HCMC, Patients 92 and 143, had contracted the disease outside Vietnam.
The former is a 21-year-old man from Da Lat who came from France through Qatar on March 17 and tested positive on March 21.
The fifth person is a 58-year-old South African woman living in Tan Phu District in HCMC, who flew in from the U.S. through Taiwan on March 21 and was diagnosed on March 26.
Vietnam has had 265 Covid-19 cases so far but no deaths.
The pandemic has claimed close to 120,000 lives and spread to 210 countries and territories.
Source: Vnexpress
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