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Some new COVID-19 patients initially test negative

Some of the 41 new COVID-19 patients who are being treated at hospitals across Vietnam have turned up negative for the SARS-CoV-2 after the first test.
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Hanoi (VNA) – Some of the 41 new COVID-19 patients who are being treated athospitals across Vietnam have turned up negative for the SARS-CoV-2 after thefirst test.

Theyinclude a Vietnamese at the general hospital of the northern province of NinhBinh whose first test was conducted on March 14. He now shows no symptoms ofthe disease like cough and fever.

Initialtesting results of two foreigners at the Da Nang Hospital in the central cityof Da Nang and a British woman at the National Hospital of Tropical DiseasesNo. 2 in Hanoi’s outskirts district of Dong Anh were also negative.

Currently,the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases is providing treatment for 15COVID-19 patients, most of them now in stable health conditions while theconditions of two others, a 69-year-old British citizen and a 64-year-oldVietnamese, are worsening.

Vietnamhas confirmed 57 COVID-19 cases so far, 16 of them discharged from hospitalafter their complete recovery./.
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