More deaths related to COVID-19 recorded
Two more people have died of COVID-19 related complications taking the total number of fatalities to 86.
Taking samples for SARS-CoV-2 testing (Photo: VNA)One is a woman, aged 81, from northern Bac Ninh province with a history of high blood pressure and the other is a 64-year-old man from northern Hung Yen who was being treated for cancer.
The woman is the grandmother of another patient. She developed shortness of breath and was admitted to Bac Ninh Provincial General Hospital with a diagnosis of severe pneumonia.
Her condition worsened and she was transferred to the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases. The woman did not respond to further treatment and died on July 2. Her cause of death has been recorded as pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2 and complications of progressive respiratory failure in patients with hypertension.
The man who died was receiving chemotherapy and radiation for throat cancer at K Hospital’s Tan Trieu facility. He developed a fever and tested positive for coronavirus on June 16.
He was transferred to the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases but died on July 2. His cause of death has been recorded as pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2, complications of bacteremia and septic shock in nasopharyngeal cancer patients./.
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