They were all elderly people and suffering from underlying health conditions.
The 103rd death is a 74-year-old man from Ho Chi Minh City’s District 4 who was suffering from liver cancer. He tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 on June 17 and was treated in Can Gio before being transferred to HCM City’s Trung Vuong Hospital where he died on July 3.
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Three more COVID-19 patients have died, raising the total number of fatalities to 105. (Photo for illustration) |
Cause of death was recorded as pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection with serious complications, progressive respiratory failure, multi-organ failure in patients with liver cancer, cirrhosis caused by hepatitis C, heart failure, hypertension and type-2 diabetes.
The 104th death is a 72-year-old woman from Thanh Khe district in the central city of Da Nang.
She had closed contact with many confirmed COVID-19 cases in her family. She tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 on June 18 and was taken to Da Nang Lung Hospital.
She died on July 7 with cause of the death noted as severe pneumonia due to COVID-19 complications, progressive respiratory failure, multiple organ failure, septic shock, hypovolemic shock due to severe gastrointestinal bleeding and invasive candidiasis in patients with type 2 diabetes, obesity, and heart failure.
The 105th death is a 67-year-old woman from Viet Yen district in the northern province of Bac Giang. She suffered from hypertension for many years and diabetes for a year.
She tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 on June 3 and was taken to Bac Giang Lung Hospital for ARDS pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2 in patients with hypertension and diabetes.
On June 13, she was transferred to the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases. She died there in the evening of July 5. Cause of the death was recorded as septic shock, multiple organ failure, ARDS pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2 in patients with diabetes and hypertension.
The total number of people who have died since the fourth outbreak of coronavirus began at the end of April now stands at 70.
Source: VNA