Da Nang People’s Committee Chairman Huynh Duc Tho has given a nod to spend about 19.7 billion VND from the city budget on buying medical equipment in order to help health facilities across the city prompt good infection control of the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).

In detail, the new medical equipment consists of an extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) system, 10 ventilators, 10 patient monitoring devices, 30 electric syringes, 2 portable ventilators, 30 infusion machines, 10 feeding machines, and a mobile X-ray machine.

Dr Nguyen Tien Hong, Deputy Director of the municipal Department of Health, has said that Da Nang General Hospital was providing treatment to 28 suspected cases of having the coronavirus. They are16 Vietnamese people, and 12 foreigners, mainly from China and Malaysia. Currently, the health conditions of the patients have stabilised.

From 13 January until now, a total of 52 suspected cases with fever have been recorded in the city. Of them, 24 people have been discharged from hospital and they are recovering well physically after being quarantined for coronavirus at the Da Nang General Hospital.

In addition, 21 local residents who have returned to the city from their trips abroad, not from China’s Wuhan, have been checked and monitored their health condition in the locality.

By PHAN CHUNG - Translated by MAI DUNG