Da Nang Lung Hospital where a COVID-19 patient died on Wednesday. VNA/VNS Photo

They all were suffering from underlying health conditions. The total number of people who have died since the fourth outbreak of coronavirus began at the end of April now stands at 70.

The 103rd death is a 74-year-old man from HCM City’s District 4 who was suffering from liver cancer. He tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 on June 17 and was treated in Can Gio before being transferred to HCM City’s Trung Vuong Hospital where he died on July 3. 

Cause of death was recorded as pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection with serious complications, progressive respiratory failure, multi-organ failure in patients with liver cancer, cirrhosis caused by hepatitis C, heart failure, hypertension and type-2 diabetes.

The 104th death is a 72-year-old woman from Thanh Khe District in the central city of Da Nang.

She had closed contact with many confirmed COVID-19 cases in her family. She tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 on June18 and was taken to Da Nang Lung Hospital.

She died on Wednesday with cause of the death was noted as severe pneumonia due to COVID-19 complications, progressive respiratory failure, multiple organ failure, septic shock, hypovolemic shock due to severe gastrointestinal bleeding and invasive candidiasis in patients with type 2 diabetes, obesity, heart failure.

The 105th death is a 67-year-old women from Viet Yen District in the northern province of Bac Giang. She suffered from hypertension for many years and diabetes for a year.

She tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 on June 3 and was taken to Bac Giang Lung Hospital for ARDS pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2 in patients with hypertension and diabetes.

On June 13, she was transferred to National Hospital for Tropical Diseases. She died there in the evening of July 5. Cause of the death was noted as septic shock, multiple organ failure, ARDS pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2 in patients with diabetes and hypertension.

Source: Vietnam News

Five COVID-19 related deaths reported, four without underlying conditions

The National Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control on Wednesday morning announced the deaths of five more COVID-19 patients, four of them are not suffering from underlying health issues in HCM City.