The latest death was Patient No.577, a 73-year-old woman living in Lien Chieu district. She had a history of end-stage chronic kidney failure, heart failure and high blood pressure.

She died at Hoa Vang district’s medical center due to septic shock, multi-organ failure and pneumonia related to the novel coronavirus.

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Doctors treat COVID-19 patients in a hospital in Central Quang Nam province (Photo: Vietnam+)

Vietnam had no new cases of COVID-19 to report on the same day’s morning, leaving the national count at 1,014 as of 6am, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

The tally included 672 locally-transmitted cases, with 532 ones recorded since July 25.

By now 563 patients have been given the all-clear.

Among the patients under treatment across the country, 40 have tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 once, 49 negative twice and 41 negative three times.

A total of 77,380 people who had close contacts with patients or came from pandemic-affected areas are being quarantined.

Source: VNA