First nCoV patient discharged in Vietnam
(VOVWORLD) - The General Hospital of Thanh Hoa province has successfully cured a 25-year-old female patient who tested positive for the coronavirus after ten days of isolation and follow-up treatment. The patient, the first virus carrier in Thanh Hoa province, was discharged from the hospital on Monday.
 The patient is cured from the corona virus and discharged from Thanh Hoa General Hospital on February 3, 2020. (Photo: nld.vn) |
After Ho Chi Minh City, Thanh Hoa is the second locality in Vietnam to successfully treat patients infected with the coronavirus. Currently, the province has four patients who remain quarantined pending test results, three of whom are in health recovery.
Meanwhile, two Chinese nationals confirmed as Vietnam's first cases of novel coronavirus infection are recovering at the Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City.
The number of deaths in China from the newly identified virus, which emerged in Wuhan city in December, had risen to 361 as of Sunday. The flu-like virus has been declared a global emergency and spread to about two dozen other countries and regions, with the first death outside of China reported on Sunday, that of a 44-year-old Chinese man who died in the Philippines after travelling from Wuhan.