Vietnam’s Covid-19 count rises to 262 Monday morning with two new cases at Hanoi’s Ha Loi Village, which is under a lockdown.
For now, the number of active cases in the country stay at 118 after 144 patients have been discharged from hospitals.
The two new patients brings the total cases recorded at Ha Loi Village in Me Linh District to 10. All are now under treatment.
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“Patient 261” is a 60-year-old woman who works as a vendor at the Ha market in the village’s Hoi hamlet. Her sample was taken on April 11 following a mass testing conducted for all villagers, and the result came back as positive the next day.
“Patient 262” is a 26-year-old man living in the Cho hamlet and working at the factory of Samsung in the northern province of Bac Ninh. He came into close contact with his uncle, “Patient 254” on March 27 and started to have Covid-19 symptoms of cough and fever three days later. His test later confirmed him as positive.
The uncle is a 51-year-old man who is also a resident in Ha Loi and a neighbor of “Patient 243,” the first in the village to be confirmed infected. He is undergoing hemodialysis at the Hanoi Kidney Hospital and has been quarantined there for Covid-19 treatment.
The two latest patients are undergoing treatment at the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases in Hanoi’s Dong Anh District, according to the Ministry of Health.
Ha Loi Village with nearly 11,000 people has been put under a lockdown since April 7 after three villagers contracted Covid-19.
The village has emerged as the second biggest hotspot in the city after Bach Mai Hospital, with 45 cases related. The hospital was free from a two-week lockdown on Sunday.
Hanoi has taken the lead in the number of Covid-19 cases in Vietnam, with 125 recorded so far, of whom 58 have been discharged. HCMC takes the second spot with 54 cases and 40 have been discharged.
Globally, the Covid-19’s death toll has jumped to more than 114,000 as it attacked 210 countries and territories.
Reporting by Minh Nga @ VNExpress
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