Twenty-three more Covid-19 patients in Da Nang were discharged from hospital on Friday afternoon after three – five consecutive negative results at least 24 hours apart as per the Health Ministry’s guidelines

The recovered people were discharged from the Hoa Vang Field Hospital on Friday afternoon

In details, three were discharged from the Da Nang Lung Hospital and the remainder were released from  the Hoa Vang Field Hospital.

They were given the all-clear after they had made a full recovery from the life-threatening disease as they no longer suffer from such symptoms as fever, cough and shortness of breath.

To be fully eligible for the hospital discharge, the covered people must show no sign of respiratory symptoms, having a normal temperature and improved acute exudative lesions on chest CT images.

Upon their hospital discharges, the close monitoring of these recovered people will be put in place during their 14-day self-quarantine period at their places of residence as per guidelines from Vietnamese Ministry of Health.

Statistics released by the Da Nang Department of Health show that Hoa Vang Field Hospital and the Lung Hospital have recorded a total of 187 recoveries till date after Da Nang braced for a second wave of Covid-19 infections in late July.

Currently, the remaining 160 patients are still being treated in these two hospitals, of whom some are receiving dialysis treatment, whist a few remain in emergency resuscitation.

In related news, a woman recovered from Covid-19 in Da Nang who tested positive again on Monday, 14 days after leaving the Hoa Vang Field Hospital, returned negative for the virus on Friday afternoon. 

This was the first case of coronavirus reinfection to have been detected in Da Nang after the second wave of Covid-19 infections hit the city late last month, but she is very unlikely to spread the infection to others, local health officials said.

All of the three relatives of this patient have all tested negative for the virus.

According to the freshly-made assessments by the Da Nang Centre for Disease Control (CDC), the patient still needs at least two other negative tests to be qualified for leaving the hospital, and she will then be self-isolated at home for two weeks.

By PHAN CHUNG – Translated by A.T