Two Vietnamese patients recovered and were released from the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases in Hà Nội on May 21. — Photo courtesy of the hospital

HÀ NỘI — Two Vietnamese patients are the country’s latest COVID-19 cases to recover at the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases in Hà Nội on Thursday.

The recovered patients have brought the country’s total patients being given the all-clear to 266, making up 82 per cent of total COVID-19 confirmed patients in Việt Nam. The recovered patients in full are:

Patient 188, female, 44, living in Chương Mỹ District, Hà Nội, is a canteen worker of Trường Sinh Service Company at the Bạch Mai General Hospital. This woman tested positive again after being given the all-clear on April 16. She was admitted to the hospital on April 18. She had two tests and both came back negative for SARS-CoV-2 on May 15 and 18.

Patient 261, female, 60, is a vendor at the Hạ market in Hạ Lôi village in Mê Linh District, Hà Nội. She was admitted to the hospital on April 12. She also had two tests and all tests were negative for SARS-CoV-2 on May 15 and 19.

Currently, the two patients have no fever, no cough, no breathing difficulties and are in a stable condition. They will continue to be isolated and monitored at the hospital for the next 14 days.

As of Thursday morning, the Ministry of Health reported no new COVID-19 community transmission cases in Việt Nam over the past 35 days. The total patients who have had the novel coronavirus stands at 324 and no deaths have been reported. — VNS