All COVID-19 patients returning from Equatorial Guinea show health improvements
All 20 COVID-19 patients returning from Equatorial Guinea are now in good health, said deputy director of the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases Nguyen Trung Cap on August 3.
The workers arrive at the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases' Campus No.2 outside Hanoi's downtown area (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – All 20 COVID-19 patients returning from Equatorial Guinea arenow in good health, said deputy director of the National Hospital for TropicalDiseases Nguyen Trung Cap on August 3.
According to him, all 219 Vietnamese workers who returned to Vietnam fromEquatorial Guinea on July 29 have been tested and only 20 of them positivefor the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, he said.
TheVietnamese workers had been stranded in the African country, with initialinformation asserting that nearly half of them already confirmed positive forSARS-CoV-2.
Cap explained that many of the workers were confirmed to be suffering fromCOVID-19 in Equatorial Guinea but had tested negative now possibly becausethey had recovered from the disease.
However, health care workers are still cautious and strictly deploying diseasepreventive measures to avoid risks of cross-infection, he said.
He added that all nine critical patients in the group, including six patientswith lung damage and three with malaria, had seen their conditions improve.
“We have been closely monitoring such complicated cases as we foresee risks ifwe ignore other diseases that the COVID-19 patients also have,” Cap said,adding that so far, there were no serious complications.
The219 workers, the flight crew of eight and four health care workers who escortedthe repatriation flight were taken into quarantine at the Kim Chung branchof the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases right after their arrival in Hanoi’sNoi Bai International Airport.
Earlier, all patients at the hospital were moved to the hospital's campus indowntown Hanoi to make room for, and to be safe from a largenumber of coronavirus carrying returnees./.
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The workers arrive at the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases' Campus No.2 outside Hanoi's downtown area (Photo: VNA) 
