Virus-stricken British pilot in Vietnam may be discharged from hospital soon

The British pilot poses with doctors at Ho Chi Minh City's Chợ Rẫy Hospital, holding up a scarf his friends sent to him on Tuesday afternoon. - Photo courtesy of Chợ Rẫy Hospital

HANOI (Reuters): A British pilot in Vietnam stricken with Covid-19 who at one point seemed close to death has almost fully recovered and is in a position to be discharged from hospital, a Vietnamese medical official said on Wednesday (June 17).

The case of Stephen Cameron has attracted national attention in Vietnam, where a combination of targeted testing and aggressive quarantine has kept its coronavirus tally to an impressively low 335 cases, and zero deaths.