Vice Minister of Health Trinh Quan Huan said on October 7 that the supervision and detection of cases of A/H1N1 influenza infection will not be deployed on a large scale but focus on the hardest-hit areas.
Huan made the remark at a gathering in Hanoi of the National Steering Board on Flu Prevention in Humans, indicating that efforts to monitor the possibility of virus variants as well as cases of resistance to anti-influenza medicine are currently the top priority.
According to the Central Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Vietnam now has three more medical establishments which are qualified to test for the virus, bringing the country’s total to 17.
Vietnam confirmed 55 more cases positive for the super-flu on October 7, raising the total number in the country to 9,707 with 20 deaths.
Of the total, 8,745 patients have been released from hospital after treatment. The remaining are under quarantine and being treated. All are in stable condition./.
Huan made the remark at a gathering in Hanoi of the National Steering Board on Flu Prevention in Humans, indicating that efforts to monitor the possibility of virus variants as well as cases of resistance to anti-influenza medicine are currently the top priority.
According to the Central Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Vietnam now has three more medical establishments which are qualified to test for the virus, bringing the country’s total to 17.
Vietnam confirmed 55 more cases positive for the super-flu on October 7, raising the total number in the country to 9,707 with 20 deaths.
Of the total, 8,745 patients have been released from hospital after treatment. The remaining are under quarantine and being treated. All are in stable condition./.
