Two more COVID-19 cases take national count to 1,016

The new cases raised the national count to 1,016, including 674 community infections. There are 534 cases linked to outbreaks in Da Nang since July 25.

On the same day, five more people infected with the novel coronavirus were discharged from hospitals. By now 568 patients have been given the all-clear.

Among the patients under treatment across the country, 39 have tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 once, 49 negative twice and 28 negative three times.

A total of 77,380 people who had close contacts with patients or came from pandemic-affected areas are being quarantined.

Another COVID-19 patient died on August 23, raising the death toll in Vietnam to 27, according to the Ministry of Health’s anti-COVID-19 task force in the central city of Da Nang.

The latest death was Patient No.577, a 73-year-old woman living in Lien Chieu district. She had a history of end-stage chronic kidney failure, heart failure and high blood pressure.

She died at Hoa Vang district’s medical centre due to septic shock, multi-organ failure and pneumonia related to the novel coronavirus.