HANOI, May 23 (Vietnam News/ANN): Vietnam recorded its 42nd Covid-19 related death on Saturday (May 22) evening.
The deceased patient was a 72-year-old woman who was admitted to the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases’ Dong Anh branch in Hanoi on April 30, with a six-year history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, with a diagnosis of severe pneumonia and hypertension.
On May 4, the patient tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.
She was transferred to the hospital’s department of emergency and intensive care. According to the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control, the woman had a number of underlying medical conditions.
She became Covid patient 3,022. Doctors consulted on May 16 and May 18 and determined the patient's condition was very serious, with a high risk of death.
She was treated with mechanical ventilation, dialysis, broad-spectrum antibiotics, antivirals and anticoagulants. However, the patient responded poorly to treatment, continued to have a fever and suffered multi-organ failure.
The cause of death was recorded as severe pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2, hypertension and multi-organ failure by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
A total of seven fatalities have been recorded since the resurgence of the pandemic in late April.
Meanwhile, Vietnam reported 33 new Covid-19 cases from 6 p.m. local time Saturday to 6am Sunday, including 31 locally transmitted and two imported, raising the total confirmed cases in the country to 5,119, according to its Ministry of Health.
Among the community cases, 29 were detected in the northern Bac Ninh province and two others in the northern Ninh Binh province.
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