A doctor in a qurantine facility in Khanh Hoa is giving health check-up to people who are under quarantine (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam recorded no new COVID-19infections over the past 12 hours, keeping the total cases at 1,059 as of6:00am of September 10, according to the National Steering Committee forCOVID-19 Prevention and Control.
So far, Vietnam has 691 locally-transmitted cases, 551 ofwhom are related to Da Nang since the pandemic broke in the central city on July25.
As many as 890 patients have been fully recovered.Meanwhile, 169 patients are receiving treatment in health care facilities, 16of them have been tested negative with the virus once and 13 twice and 21others thrice.
Seven COVID-19 patients are on critical conditions with highrisk of death.
The country has so far reported 35 COVID-19 related deaths,the majority of the cases were the elderly with severe disease such as end-stage chronic kidney failure, cancer, sepsis and diabetes.
As many as 36,126 peoplenationwide who had close contact with patients or entered from pandemic-hitareas are under quarantine, 621 of them are in hospitals, 15,874 in otherestablishments and 19,631 at homes.
The Health Ministry has advisedthe community to safely adapt with the pandemic by applying preventivemeasures.
The ministry also urgedeach Vietnamese citizen to download Bluezone app athttps://www.bluezone.gov.vn to receive infection risk warnings./.
VNA
