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Military set up two COVID-19 treatment hospitals in Bac Giang, Bac Ninh

The military are urgently setting up two temporary hospitals to provide care for COVID-19 patients in the northern provinces of Bac Ninh and Bac Giang, which are the two provinces affected the worst by the current COVID-19 resurgence in Vietnam, on May 19 afternoon.
Military set up two COVID-19 treatment hospitals in Bac Giang, Bac Ninh ảnh 1Medical staff conduct COVID-19 testing in a lab. (Photo: Ministry of Health)
Hanoi (VNA) – The military are urgently settingup two temporary hospitals to provide care for COVID-19 patients in thenorthern provinces of Bac Ninh and Bac Giang, which are the two provincesaffected the worst by the current COVID-19 resurgence in Vietnam.

The two facilities, one located on the ground of thePolitical Officers College’s No.2 campus in Bac Ninh city and the other atRegiment 831 of the Bac Giang Military Command in Viet Yen district, arescheduled to begin receive patients from 5pm on May 19.

Each has 300 beds and close to 120 medical workers. Theircapacity can be raised to 500 beds if required.

Military set up two COVID-19 treatment hospitals in Bac Giang, Bac Ninh ảnh 2A COVID-19 checkpoint is set up between Bac Ninh city and Bac Giang's Viet Yen district. (Photo: VNA)
According to the Ministry of National Defence’s GeneralDepartment of Logistics, the hospitals are designed to offer emergency care andtreatment for COVID-19 patients in a bid to help the two provinces swiftly keepthe coronavirus at bay.

In a meeting with the ministry’s steering committee forCOVID-19 prevention and control on May 16, Minister of National Defence PhanVan Giang said his ministry will deploy more officers and vehicles to supportpandemic-hit localities in fighting the fourth COVID-19 wave.

Meanwhile, the National Institute of Hygiene andEpidemiology on May 19 announced that B.1.617.2 – the Indian variant ofcoronavirus – has been found in 29 samples collected in Vietnam. They include10 in Hanoi, five in the Vietnam National Cancer Hospital’s Tan Trieu facility,nine in Bac Giang, two in Bac Ninh, two in Vinh Phuc and one in Hai Phong.

The UK’s B.1.17 variant, meanwhile, were detected in twosamples collected in Hai Duong./.
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