Dr Nguyen Tien Hong, Deputy Director of the Da Nang Department of Health, confirmed on Friday that no new suspected cases of coronavirus have been reported in the city so far.

Suspected patients being kept in quarantine at the Lung Hospital

On Friday morning, the 2 remaining suspected patients in the city who had been tested negative for the deadly virus, were discharged from the city-based Lung Hospital.

Since 14 January, a total of 155 suspected cases, including 33 foreigners, have been kept in quarantine and closely monitored their health conditions at the Da Nang General, Lung and Maternity and Paediatrics hospitals.

To date, the throat swabs and blood serum samples of 116 suspected cases with high fever in the city have been sent to the Nha Trang Pasteur Institute to test for the virus, and all have been confirmed negative.

By PHAN CHUNG - Translated by MAI DUNG