Vietnam says 37 patients tested negative with coronavirus

As of Thursday evening, 37 patients, who were put under treatments at 21 medical facilities nationwide, also gave negative test results with the virus.

The patients include 27 patients having first negative result, 2 patients with second negative result, 4 patients with third negative result, and other 4 patients having  fourth negative result.

Among the patients who tested negative four times are three patients in Da Nang who have declared to recover and are set to be discharged on Friday morning.

Two of the patients who tested negative three times in a row are a 70-year-old British woman infected with the virus while touring Lao Cai, home to the northern highlands resort town of Sa Pa, and 26-year-old Nguyen Hong Nhung, a Hanoi woman who was confirmed infected four days after she returned from London, VnExpress says. 

Among 27 active cases that tested negative for the first time was a 61-year-old man in Hanoi who boarded Vietnam Airlines flight VN54 from London to Hanoi on March 2 along with Nhung, and a 55 year-old man living in Saigon’s District 8, returning from a crowded Islamic religious event in Malaysia.

Regarding the health conditions of 3 patients who were in critical condition, one received ECMO intervention. The remaining 2 patients were oxygenated, ministry said.

So far, 4 Vietnamese medical workers including 2 from Bach Mai Hospital and 2 from the Central Tropical Diseases Hospital were infected with COVID-19 from patients.

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