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Da Nang (VNA) – Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Truong Son said on August 5 that the current goal is to step up anti-body testing to discover COVID-19 infection cases in the community. Son said the health sector is carrying out Real-time – PRC and anti-body tests. The central city of Da Nang has raised its testing capacity to 8,000-10,000 samples per day. While the Da Nang Centre for Disease Control and Prevention is tracing down patients in the community, the Health Ministry sent a team of experts from the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology to the city to help with quarantine and tracing of suspect cases, he said. After the Da Nang Hospital, Da Nang C Hospital and the Ho Chi Minh City Orthopedics and Rehabilitation Hospital are sterilised, Son said they will be assessed based on the ministry’s safety criteria for COVID-19 prevention and control, including building a process to classify patients, and closely controlling patients with respiratory … [Read more...] about Deputy Health Minister: anti-body testing to discover infections

In a dispatch issued in April, the ministry was in favour of the extension of sailors’ health certificates for between three and four months, on the basis of the documents proving their health conditions and confirmation on their current conditions by the health officials aboard. … [Read more...] about Sailors’ health certificates extended in pandemic time

Infections in Da Nang have spread rapidly among several hospitals in the city. Cases linked to Da Nang have also been reported in its neighbor Quang Nam Province, Hanoi, HCMC, the northern provinces of Lang Son, Bac Giang, Thai Binh and Ha Nam, the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, the central province of Quang Ngai and the southern province of Dong Nai. … [Read more...] about Da Nang native pays for skipping health declaration procedure

Health care workers in protective gear collect samples for Covid-19 testing from citizens in an isolation facility. Vietnam’s Covid-19 outbreak is expected to peak in the next 10 days – PHOTO: VNA HCMC – Local residents should take numerous precautions against Covid-19 as the number of infections will rise further and the outbreak is expected to reach its peak in the next 10 days, said Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son. … [Read more...] about Vietnam’s Covid-19 outbreak could peak in next 10 days: health official

The ninth death of a 67-year-old woman from in the Central Province of Quang Nam’s Duy Xuyen District is also connected to the coronavirus hot spot in Da Nang. She had a number of underlying medical conditions including a history of renal failure, lupus and type 2 diabetes. … [Read more...] about Additional Covid-19 patient dies of renal failure complication