(VOVWORLD) -Australia’s 9News reported on Sunday that a British pilot who was Vietnam's most critical COVID-19 patient was discharged from a hospital and will return home to Scotland.
9News said the 42-year-old man, identified by the official Vietnam News Agency as Stephen Cameron, was taken by ambulance from Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City to the city's airport. He was scheduled to take a flight to Hanoi, Vietnam's capital, where he will depart on a flight to London, with a stop in Frankfurt. He is scheduled to land in London on Sunday morning (local time). Mr. Cameron was Vietnam's last patient in an ICU, and his recovery means the country still has not had any COVID-19 deaths.
Canada’s cbc.ca webpage runs an article entitled “Virus-free UK pilot, symbol of Vietnam's pandemic success, to return home.” It said “The case of Stephen Cameron, a pilot for national carrier Vietnam Airlines, became a sensation in Vietnam, where a combination of targeted testing and an aggressive quarantine program has kept its coronavirus tally to an impressively low 370 cases, and zero deaths.”
Cameron's illness and the highly publicized efforts of Vietnam's doctors to save him became a symbol in Vietnam of the country's successful fight against the virus, according to cbc.ca.