At a quarantine area (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam recorded 40 COVID-19 infections,all locally-transmitted cases, during the past six hours to 12:00 pm on May 28,according to the Ministry of Health.
The ministry said among the new cases, 23 werereported in Bac Giang province, 13 in Bac Ninh, and one each in Hai Duong, HungYen, Ha Nam and Hanoi.
The number of locally-transmittedand imported cases stood at 4,904, and 1,492, respectively.
Meanwhile, 43 patients were given the all-clear in the morning of May 28,raising the number of recoveries to 2,896.
Among active patients undergoing treatment, 112 have tested negative tocoronavirus SARS-CoV-2 once, 41 twice, and 70 thrice.
One more fatality from COVID-19 was confirmed the same day, pushing the totaldeaths related to the disease to 47.
The dead was a 22-year-old female patient who was diagnosed with bone marrowfailure in March this year, and has been treated at the NationalInstitute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion.
The patient was transferred to the second facility ofthe National Hospitalfor Tropical Diseases in Kim Chung commune in Hanoi's outlyingdistrict of DongAnh on April 29. She testedpositive to coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and received treatment for the diseasefrom May 5.
The patient was in septic shock and died at 21:48 on May 27.
Also on May 28 morning, aceremony was held at the Health Ministry to receive 40 remotetemperature monitors worth a combined 1 million USD presented by the Governmentof the Republic of Korea./.
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