Vietnam marks 66 days with no local cases

NO new Covid-19 cases were reported in Vietnam over the weekend, making Sunday the 66th straight day without community transmission in the country, according to the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control.

The total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the country remained at 349 after the last seven cases who returned from Sweden and Poland were reported on Friday.

Of the confirmed cases, 209 were imported and quarantined after their arrival.

Up until Sunday, 327 Covid-19 patients in Vietnam, accounting for 93.7% of total cases, had been given the all-clear.

Of the 22 active cases, two patients tested negative for the coronavirus once and four other patients tested negative at least twice.

As many as 5,724 people were being quarantined across the country, with 95 at hospitals, 5,347 at designated facilities and 282 at their accommodations.

According to the committee’s Treatment Department, a British pilot, Patient 91, who is the most serious Covid-19 patient in Vietnam, could breathe by himself without support on Sunday morning.

He may be moved from the intensive care unit to the rehabilitation department soon.

The patient’s kidneys, heart, liver, and pancreas had also improved.

However, according to doctors at Ho Chi Minh City’s Cho Ray Hospital, where the patient has received treatment since May 22, he needed more time to make a full recovery, particularly in terms of his motor functions.