The latest patient, a 24-year-old man, returned to Vietnam on June 16 from Kuwait after transiting in Qatar. Upon his arrival at the Tan Son Nhat international airport in Ho Chi Minh City, he was immediately quarantined.
With his first test on the day being positive for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the COVID-19, the man is now being quarantined and treated in the HCM City hospital for tropical diseases.
As of 6 am on June 17, Vietnam marked 62 consecutive days without community transmission. Of the 335 cases recorded in the country so far, 195 were imported and quarantined upon arrival.
A total of 325 patients, or 97% of all cases, have recovered and zero deaths have been reported. Four of the remaining 10 patients have tested negative for the coronavirus at least twice.
Some 7,250 people who had close contact with patients or came from pandemic-hit areas are now under quarantine across Vietnam.
Regarding the British pilot, known as Vietnam’s 91st COVID-19 patient, he is now able to stand and is undergoing physical therapy with the support of medical workers, according to Ho Chi Minh City’s Cho Ray Hospital.
He has been disconnected from extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for 13 days and come off the ventilator for three days. The patient is in a stable condition and is able to talk. Doctors said he still needed time to regain use of his leg muscles.
The 91st patient has been treated at hospitals for 89 days. He was moved from the Hospital of Tropical Diseases to the Intensive Care Unit of Cho Ray Hospital on May 22 with severely damaged lungs. He was the most critical COVID-19 patient in Vietnam and tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 at least six times.
