A COVID-19 patient is sent to the Gia Đình (Family) General Hospital in Đà Nẵng City. This is one of the first private medical facilities in the central city ready to cooperate with Đà Nẵng Hospital in the fight against COVID-19. — VNA/VNS Photo Văn Dũng

HÀ NỘI — Two more people connected to Đà Nẵng Hospital have tested positive for COVID-19.

One is a 33-year-old man from Duy Sơn Commune in Quảng Nam Province who is a patient at the hospital’s neurological surgery department.

The other is a man aged 37 who lives in Đại Hiệp Commune, also in Quảng Nam Province and has been taking care of a relative in the hospital's kidney department.

As of Wednesday morning, Việt Nam has seen 672 cases of COVID-19, of which 308 were imported and 224 related to Đà Nẵng City.

According to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, of the active cases nationwide, 18 patients have tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 once, and 13 at least twice.

A little more than 120,000 people are currently quarantined at hospitals, quarantine centres, and their homes.

In the past week, eight people have died of coronavirus-related complications. — VNS