This morning, August 24, the Ministry of Health announced that there were no more cases of COVID-19, this was the fourth morning there were no new cases. Receipt has dropped dramatically.

Receive donated plasma from COVID-19 patients who are cured at the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases - Photo: The hospital provides

Accordingly, the Ministry of Health said that this morning, August 24, no new patients with COVID-19 were recorded, the whole country was stopping at 1,016 patients since the beginning of the epidemic season, of which there were 674 infections in the country, of which Particularly, the number of cases related to Danang from July 25 was 534 cases.

The morning of August 24 was the Wednesday morning with no new cases reported. As of days, the last 4 days are still scattered records of patients, but the number of newly detected cases has decreased many times compared to the previous weeks.

Up to August 24, there were 568 patients recovered from the disease, in addition 116 patients who had 1-3 negative test results, will soon be discharged in the next few days.

Of the 414 patients undergoing treatment, there were 19 cases in severe condition, accounting for 4.6%. Six of them had to breathe invasive machine, 2 had to use ECMO (artificial cardiopulmonary device), most of the critically ill patients were community-related infectious patients related to the Da Nang area.

The Ministry of Health also said that patient 888, who had surgery to treat stomach bleeding while having COVID-19 a few days ago, had a second surgery, followed up with no signs of bleeding. progressing well. Patient 582, another serious illness, has recovered and is about to be discharged from the hospital.

Particularly for patient 996, the case of COVID-19 based on cancer has poor immunological results, experts are consulting for Interferon infusion or plasma exchange from infected people who are cured and have resistance. can.

If the patient had plasma transplants, it would be among the first cases to be treated with cured plasma, within the scope of the ministerial study that has just started to kick off this August with the active support from people with COVID-19 who are cured.

Graphics: NGOC THANH

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