Category: Vietnam
Vietnam: Severe liver and brain damage in child after Covid-19 infection
A 13-year-old boy just recovered from Covid-19 suddenly returned to fever, red skin, red eyes, the doctor diagnosed multi-system inflammatory syndrome, brain damage. More...
China: Highest Covid case rate since March 2020
Domestically transmitted COVID-19 infections on the Chinese mainland have soared to more than 500 with 214 confirmed cases and 312 asymptomatic cases respectively, the highest since 2020. More...
Hong Kong: Link between Covid cases and deaths re-established *4 UPDATES*
Hong Kong may impose a hard lockdown that confines people to their homes, authorities signalled Monday 28th February 2022, with the city’s zero-COVID strategy in tatters and bodies piling up in hospitals. More...
Preprint: Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States
“At the country-level, there appears to be no discernable relationship between percentage of population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases in the last 7 days. More...
Delta vaccine breakthroughs in healthcare staff in Vietnam
Between 11th–25th June 2021, 69 healthcare workers were tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. More...
Vietnam: More than 6,000 Covid patients being treated at 107 medical facilities
“The pressure to treat Covid-19 patients is too large and too heavy”. More...
Vietnam: No new hybrid coronavirus strain detected in Vietnam says WHO
“There is no new hybrid variant in Vietnam at this moment based on WHO definition,” Kidong Park, the WHO representative in Vietnam, told Nikkei Asia on Wednesday. More...
Vietnam: 4,000 people from Bac Giang quarantined after coronavirus outbreak
Bac Giang province will move all 4,000 workers and people at the Covid-19 outbreak in Nui Hieu village, Quang Chau commune, Viet Yen district, to concentrated isolation. More...
Vietnam: Young coronavirus patients with no underlying health conditions have ‘white lungs after a few days of Covid-19 symptoms’
Deputy Director of the Medical Examination and Treatment Administration, Vietnamese Ministry of Health, assessed that young people without underlying diseases develop lung damage very quickly, just a few days after symptoms appear white on both sides of the lungs. More...
Vietnam: recombinant/hybrid coronavirus announced – B.1.617.2 Delta variant with Y144 mutation from B.1.1.7 Alpha variant
Vietnam has detected a coronavirus hybrid variant with characteristics from the existing B16172 Delta variant and B117 Alpha variant, the Ministry of Health announced Saturday. More...