More than 1,900 new cases, 67 F0 are on oxygen, no deaths recorded

The Ministry of Health’s Covid-19 prevention bulletin on May 18 said there were 1,927 new Covid-19 cases, a slight decrease from the previous day. Today, 469 cases have recovered, and 67 are currently on oxygen.

Covid-19 ngày 18/5: Hơn 1.900 ca mắc mới,

Binh Duong province continues to accelerate Covid-19 vaccination. (Source: SK&DS)

Covid-19 epidemic situation in Vietnam

Since the beginning of the epidemic, Vietnam has had 11,598,589 infections, ranking 13th out of 231 countries and territories, while with the rate of infections per 1 million people, Vietnam ranks 120th out of 231 countries and territories (on average, there are 117,212 infections per 1 million people).

Covid-19 treatment situation

1. Number of patients recovered:

- Patients announced to be cured on the day: 469 cases

- Total number of cured cases: 10,634,173 cases

2. The number of patients on oxygen is 67 cases, including:

- Oxygen breathing through mask: 60 cases

- High flow oxygen HFNC: 3 cases

- Non-invasive ventilation: 2 cases

- Invasive mechanical ventilation: 2 cases

- ECMO: 0 cases

3. Number of deaths:

- 0 deaths recorded on the day.

- Average number of deaths recorded in the past 7 days: 0 cases.

- The total number of deaths due to Covid-19 in Vietnam to date is 43,201, accounting for 0.4% of the total number of infections.

- Total deaths ranked 26th out of 231 territories, deaths per 1 million people ranked 141st out of 231 countries and territories in the world. Compared to Asia, total deaths ranked 7th out of 50 (ranked 3rd in ASEAN), deaths per 1 million people ranked 29th out of 50 countries and territories in Asia (ranked 5th in ASEAN).

Covid-19 vaccination situation

On May 17, 1,827 doses of Covid-19 vaccine were injected. Thus, the total number of doses of vaccine injected is 266,343,456 doses, of which:

+ Number of doses for people aged 18 and over is 223,696,330 doses: 1st dose is 70,908,868 doses; 2nd dose is 68,453,313 doses; Supplementary dose is 14,343,935 doses; 1st booster dose is 52,124,096 doses; 2nd booster dose is 17,866,118 doses.

+ Number of injections for children from 12-17 years old is 23,965,543 doses: 1st dose is 9,130,889 doses; 2nd dose is 9,021,366 doses; 1st booster dose is 5,813,288 doses.

+ Number of doses for children aged 5-11 is 18,681,583 doses: 10,221,869 doses for dose 1; 8,459,714 doses for dose 2.

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