COVID-19 epidemic today: Cases decrease sharply, proposed amendments to regulations to declare the end of the epidemic

Regarding the COVID-19 epidemic situation today , the Ministry of Health said that from 4:00 p.m. on September 23 to 4:00 p.m. on September 24, the whole country recorded 6 cases, the lowest in more than 2 weeks.

Dịch COVID-19 hôm nay: Ca mắc giảm sâu, đề xuất sửa quy định để công bố hết dịch - Ảnh 1.

COVID-19 pandemic chart

Since the beginning of the pandemic, Vietnam has had 11,623,577 infections, ranking 13th out of 231 countries and territories. The total number of cured cases is 10,640,760. The number of deaths due to COVID-19 in Vietnam to date is 43,206, accounting for 0.4% of the total number of infections.

During the day, 4 more patients were announced to be cured. The whole country had 2 more serious patients requiring oxygen, an increase compared to the previous day.

To date, our country has administered more than 266.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine. Vietnam is one of the countries with the highest COVID-19 vaccination coverage rate in the world . The rate of basic vaccination for people aged 12 and over is approximately 100%.

Dịch COVID-19 hôm nay: Ca mắc giảm sâu, đề xuất sửa quy định để công bố hết dịch - Ảnh 2.

The number of deaths from COVID-19 is much lower than that of group B infectious diseases, the Ministry of Health said.

The Ministry of Health has just submitted to the Prime Minister a draft Decision of the Prime Minister amending the appendix regulating the average incubation period and the period of time when no new cases of infectious diseases are detected as a basis for declaring the end of an infectious disease epidemic.

In the draft proposal to amend the appendix regulating the average incubation period and the time without detecting new cases of COVID-19, the Ministry of Health proposed reducing the average incubation period to 4 days and the time without detecting new cases to 8 days.

The Ministry of Health determined that COVID-19 no longer meets the criteria for a group A infectious disease. Specifically, from the beginning of the year to August 31, 97,628 cases were recorded, with an average of about 12,000 cases recorded per month; the average number of cases per month decreased 12 times compared to 2021 (about 144,000 cases/month) and decreased 68 times compared to 2022 (about 816,000 cases/month).

The mortality rate due to COVID-19 decreased from 1.86% in 2021 to 0.1% in 2022 and is currently 0.02% in 2023 (as of the end of August 2023), equivalent to or lower than the mortality rate of some common group B infectious diseases recorded in Vietnam in the past 5 years such as: dengue fever, malaria, diphtheria, whooping cough. In addition, the causative agent of COVID-19 has been clearly identified as the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

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