Health authorities reported youngest Covid-19 related death in Vietnam as cases keep surging

Doctors in full protective suits at Kim Chung facility of the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Dong Anh District in Hanoi, - Vietnam News/ANN

HANOI, May 28 (Vietnam News/ANN): Health authorities on Friday confirmed the death from Covid-19 of a 22-year-old woman from the northern province of Phú Thọ, the youngest victim in the fourth wave of infections and the 47th since the pandemic began earlier last year.

The woman was diagnosed with a bone marrow disorder in March 2021, and she had been receiving treatment at the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion in Hanoi.