May 21: 979 new COVID-19 cases

According to the Ministry of Health's bulletin on the COVID-19 epidemic situation, on May 21, our country recorded 979 new cases; 148 patients were announced to be cured.

I. COVID-19 SITUATION IN VIETNAM

Since the beginning of the epidemic, Vietnam has had 11,602,738 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 117,254 infections per 1 million people).

II. TREATMENT SITUATION ON MAY 20

(Data reported daily by the Department of Health of provinces and cities on the COVID-19 Management System of the Department of Medical Examination and Treatment Management, Ministry of Health - cdc.kcb.vn)

1. Number of patients recovered:

- Patients announced to be cured on the day: 148 cases

- Total number of cured cases: 10,635,065 cases

2. The number of patients on oxygen is 44 cases, including:

- Oxygen breathing through mask: 40 cases

- High flow oxygen HFNC: 1 case

- Non-invasive ventilation: 1 case

- Invasive mechanical ventilation: 2 cases

- ECMO: 0 cases

3. Number of deaths:

- 1 death was recorded in Tay Ninh 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 43,203, 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).

III. VACCINATION SITUATION

On May 20, 168 doses of COVID-19 vaccine were administered. Thus, the total number of doses administered was 266,348,418, of which:

+ Number of injections for people aged 18 and over is 223,700,326 doses: 1st dose is 70,908,904 doses; 2nd dose is 68,453,447 doses; Supplementary dose is 14,343,935 doses; 1st booster dose is 52,126,542 doses; 2nd booster dose is 17,867,498 doses.

+ Number of doses for children aged 12-17 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 18,682,549 doses: 10,222,129 doses for dose 1; 8,460,420 doses for dose 2.

According to vtv.vn

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