The Ministry of Health’s Covid-19 prevention bulletin on May 17 said there were 2,043 new cases, a slight increase from the previous day. Today, 853 cases have recovered, and 75 patients are currently on oxygen.
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| Strictly wear masks to prevent Covid-19 infection at medical examination places. (Source: GĐ&XH) |
Covid-19 epidemic situation in Vietnam
Since the beginning of the epidemic, Vietnam has had 11,596,662 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 117,193 infections per 1 million people).
Covid-19 treatment situation
1. Number of patients recovered:
- Patients announced to be cured on the day: 853 cases
- Total number of cured cases: 10,633,704 cases
2. The number of patients on oxygen is 75 cases, including:
- Oxygen breathing through mask: 65 cases
- High flow oxygen HFNC: 6 cases
- Non-invasive ventilation: 1 case
- Invasive mechanical ventilation: 3 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 16, 875 doses of Covid-19 vaccine were injected. Thus, the total number of doses of vaccine injected is 266,341,032 doses, of which:
+ Number of doses for people aged 18 and over is 223,694,570 doses: 1st dose is 70,908,855 doses; 2nd dose is 68,453,263 doses; Supplementary dose is 14,343,935 doses; 1st booster dose is 52,123,045 doses; 2nd booster dose is 17,865,472 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 18,680,919 doses: 10,221,541 doses for dose 1; 8,459,378 doses for dose 2.
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