More than 650 new cases, 273 recoveries; experts say Covid-19 is still a specific disease

According to the Ministry of Health 's Covid-19 Prevention Bulletin, on May 30, 652 new cases were recorded, a slight decrease compared to yesterday; 273 patients recovered, the number of cases using oxygen increased to 63.

Hướng dẫn tiêm vaccine Covid-19 cho người dân. (Nguồn: Vietnam+)

The Ministry of Health proposes to include the Covid-19 vaccine in routine vaccination.

Since the beginning of the epidemic, Vietnam has had 11,611,376 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 117,342 infections per 1 million people).

Covid-19 treatment situation

1. Number of patients cured:

- Patients announced to be cured on the day: 273 cases

- Total number of cured cases: 10,637,927 cases

2. The number of patients on oxygen is 63, of which:

- Oxygen breathing through mask: 50 cases

- High flow oxygen ventilation HFNC: 7 cases

- Non-invasive ventilation: 3 cases

- 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 43,206, 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 29, 606 doses of Covid-19 vaccine were injected. Thus, the total number of vaccine doses injected was 266,408,987 doses, of which:

+ Number of injections for people aged 18 and over is 223,741,054 doses: 1st dose is 70,909,201 doses; 2nd dose is 68,455,683 doses; Supplementary dose is 14,344,121 doses; 1st booster dose is 52,133,593 doses; 2nd booster dose is 17,898,456 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 years old is 18,702,390 doses: 1st dose is 10,227,846 doses; 2nd dose is 8,474,544 doses.

* Speaking to reporters, Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Dac Phu, former Director of the Department of Preventive Medicine, senior advisor of the Vietnam Center for Public Health Emergency Response, said that the Covid-19 epidemic situation in our country is still under control, most new cases have mild symptoms or no symptoms, not overloading the health system.

Severe cases and deaths are mostly people with underlying diseases, the elderly, unvaccinated people, people with immunodeficiency...

These cases can become severe if infected with other infectious viruses such as flu, not just Covid-19 .

When the above subjects are infected with viral diseases, their immunity is reduced, making them susceptible to other diseases, leading to severe illness and death.

According to Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Dac Phu, Vietnam has implemented the Strategy of "adapting, being safe, being flexible, and effectively controlling the Covid-19 epidemic" after the Government issued Resolution 128/NQ-CP in October 2021.

Although we have not yet converted the Covid-19 epidemic from group A to group B, many activities have been carried out as in group B, which are opening up, not banning travel, tourism, organizing meetings, organizing events, not requiring mandatory testing, relaxing quarantine... to do business, ensure social security...

Regarding this issue, epidemiological experts said that the classification of infectious diseases is carried out according to the provisions of the Law on Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases, in which group A includes especially dangerous infectious diseases that can be transmitted very quickly, spread widely and have a high mortality rate or the causative agent is unknown; group B includes dangerous infectious diseases that can be transmitted quickly and can cause death.

According to the analysis of Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Dac Phu, we must clearly see that even if Covid-19 is classified in group B with other infectious diseases, Covid-19 must still be a specific disease because WHO has not announced the end of the Covid-19 pandemic.

At the same time, WHO still recommends that countries need to be cautious and move from emergency epidemic prevention and control to a sustainable, long-term epidemic control strategy.

Thus, regarding the policy and plan to prevent and fight the Covid-19 epidemic during this time, according to him, we need to closely monitor the epidemic situation to have appropriate and unsurprising responses, both controlling the epidemic in all situations but not being costly, protecting the health and interests of the people.

Special attention should be paid to monitoring activities, personal prevention, vaccination, communication, protection of vulnerable groups, etc.

The Ministry of Health is continuing to develop a sustainable response plan to the Covid-19 pandemic in the new situation, taking into account the emergence of new dangerous variants and widespread epidemics, etc.; Strengthening integrated surveillance of Covid-19 and other respiratory infections.

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