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Vietnam confirmed its 37th Covid-19 death Monday as a 34-year-old man, who got infected with the new coronavirus when staying at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi.
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The Ministry of Health confirmed that he has died of severe pneumonia due to Covid-19, brain injury, and meningitis.
“Patient 3055” got infected with the new coronavirus when staying at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi.
Residing in northern Bac Ninh Province, he was sent to the hospital on April 24 following a traffic accident that caused him brain injury.
He was announced a Covid-19 patient on May 6 as the hospital became a Covid-19 hotspot itself and was put under lockdown on May 5.
The Ministry of Health confirmed that he has died of severe pneumonia due to Covid-19, brain injury, and meningitis.
He has made the 37th Covid-19 death in Vietnam, following the 36th death recorded last Saturday – an 89-year-old woman from Bac Ninh.
Last few days, Vietnam records 36th coronavirus fatality, a 89-year-old woman in Bac Ninh, the current biggest hotspot. She also suffered fr high blood pressure & diabetes. This is the 1st death fr the renewed outbreak. The last fatality was reported last September.
Vietnam’s previously recorded 35 coronavirus deaths were all associated with a Covid-19 outbreak in Da Nang in July and August last year.
Many of them were elderly patients with underlying conditions like diabetes or kidney failure.
Monday morning the country confirmed 37 new local Covid-19 cases linked to previously confirmed patients. The new cases are reported in four northern provinces of Bac Giang, Bac Ninh, Vinh Phuc and Tuyen Quang.
Of them, 22 cases in Bac Giang are related to the clusters at three industrial parks Quang Chau, Van Trung, and Dinh Tram in Viet Yen District while 11 cases in Bac Ninh and three cases in Vinh Phuc are people who have come into close contact with previously confirmed Covid-19 patients.
The case in Tuyen Quang is a woman that has had contact with an infected worker at a company in Bac Giang’s Quang Chau Industrial Park.
The nation has been coping with a new Covid-19 wave that broke out on April 27 and has so far seen 1,177 cases in 27 cities and provinces.
Among the patients, 336 are in Bac Giang and 252 are in Bac Ninh, according to VNExpress.
