Seven days without infecting the nCoV community



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On the morning of September 10, the Ministry of Health did not register any more positive cases of nCoV. The total number of infections is 1,059, marking the seventh day without community infection.

During the last 24 hours, 5 new infections were added, 21 people recovered. The total number of infections in the country rose to 1,059, the total number was 890. The number of deaths from Covid-19 was 35, with three deaths after three to four negative tests.

So far, there have been a total of 691 cases of infection in the country, of which the number of cases related to Da Nang since July 25 was 551. The last seven days have not been infected with community nCoV.

Of the patients undergoing treatment, 16 had tested negative for nCoV once, 13 were negative a second time, and 21 were negative a third time.

Currently 5 patients have a very severe prognosis, a prognosis of death.

The total number of people who have been in close contact and entered from the quarantine area is more than 36,000. In which, the isolation concentrated in the hospital to more than 600; more than 15,000 concentrated in isolation, the rest at home and accommodation.

In the meeting of the National Steering Committee against Covid-19 pm, the experts emphasized that living together safely with epidemics should open the door to receive experts and investors in the service of economic development. Therefore, rapid test (antigen detection) at border gates, airports, hospitals, events that gather people … screening, detection of the first cases of infection, not disappeared, to go out to the community, enter the hospital, it is extremely important.

Many experts point out that the Ministry of Health plans to test the entrances at international airports by reopening some routes with Germany, Japan, Korea, Thailand, India …

Acting Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said he would order companies to organize nCoV tests at the airport, as some countries experience.

Currently, domestic companies have produced two types of antibody test kits using the machine and they do not need to use the machine, with high sensitivity and specificity for Covid-19 patients after 7 days. In addition, Vietnam can also produce antigen detection test kits made by Realtime-PCR method, with high precision, early detection of people infected with nCoV, but with long implementation time, high skill requirements and regulations. process.

Companies are urgently researching and producing low-cost antigen test kits that can use existing machines and equipment, with a shorter implementation time but with sensitivity and specificity. equivalent to or better than the current real-time PCR method.

More than 27.7 million people are registered with Covid-19 worldwide and more than 900,000 die. The United States and Brazil are the two countries with the highest number of infections and deaths.

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