Last COVID-19 patient in Hai Duong discharged from hospital

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Hai Duong's last COVID-19 patient in treatment, given the all-clear on Friday morning, boarded the ambulance to go home. Photo: VNA/VNS/Manh Tu

The patient, whose name’s initials were given as P.T.C., born in 1959 and living in Binh Han ward of Hai Duong city, was admitted to the province’s second field hospital for COVID-19 treatment on February 25, during the coronavirus outbreak in the province starting on January 27.

After the field hospitals were dismantled following a dwindling number of patients, she was moved to the tropical diseases hospital on March 28.

She has got three consecutive negative virus tests (on April 11, 14, and 16).

The patient still needs to self-isolate at home for a further 21 days under the monitoring of local authorities and will receive further COVID-19 testing as per the health ministry’s guidelines.

Nguyen The Anh, vice director of the hospital, said that given her age (62) and diabetes type 2 as an underlying condition, her treatment period, 51 days in total, was significantly longer than average.

Hai Duong CDC said there is no longer any active COVID-19 cases in the province as Hai Duong and Vietnam as a whole passed 22 days without community infections on Friday.

All direct contacts (F1) to the confirmed positive cases or contacts of F1 cases (F2) have completed their mandatory quarantine period.

Since the community outbreak started, the province has collected 746,104 samples for SARS-CoV-2 testing.

Hai Duong was the epicentre of Vietnam’s third wave of infections starting on January 27, recording 726 cases out of the country’s 910 cases in 13 provinces and cities during that time.

VNS