Covid-19 News Hanoi today March 16: Adding 26,220 new Covid-19 cases, 657 severe F0 are being treated

The group of new Covid-19 patients resides in 522 communes, wards and towns in 30/30 districts, towns.

The localities that recorded the largest number of F0 during the day: Hai Ba Trung (1,702); Hoang Mai (1,694); Ha Dong (1,584); Cau Giay (1,437); Long Bien (1,408); Ba Dinh (1,386);…

Some communes/wards with high number of infections today: Yen Hoa (Cau Giay); Vinh Phuc (Ba Dinh); Dai Kim (Hoang Mai); Phu Dien (Northern Tu Liem); Khuong Trung (Thanh Xuan); Phuong Canh (Nam Tu Liem);…

Thus, from the beginning of the fourth outbreak (from April 29) to now, Hanoi has recorded a total of 892,319 Covid-19 cases, leading the country, a large gap with the second place. Ho Chi Minh City (more than 570,000 cases). Particularly from the time of applying “safe and flexible adaptation to the Covid-19 epidemic” (from October 11, 2021), the whole city has added 888,281 new F0s.

The districts with the largest number of cumulative cases (from the beginning of 2021 to March 16, 2022) are: Hoang Mai (59,036), Dong Anh (58,739), Nam Tu Liem (48,562), Long Bien (48,030). ), Bac Tu Liem (47,329),…

According to the update of the Department of Medical Examination and Treatment, the Ministry of Health, by the end of March 15, Hanoi had 3,546 Covid-19 cases being treated at hospitals, of which 2,465 F0 were moderate, 657 cases are severe and critical.

Although the number of infections in Hanoi continues to increase rapidly, the number of severe and critical F0 being treated at hospitals in the area tends to decrease.

Talking to VietNamNet, Ha Dong General Hospital (medical facilities on the 2nd and 3rd floors) information, the F0 treatment situation at the hospital is not too stressful when in recent days, the number of F0 hospitalized has slowed down. , the rate of severe and critical cases decreased. The hospital is tasked with 400 beds. However, currently the number of beds in use is only about 2/3, not yet at full capacity. “At the peak, we used up 400 beds for F0 treatment, in recent days the number of severe F0 has decreased,” a hospital representative shared.

A representative of Thanh Nhan Hospital, a medical facility on the 3rd floor in Hanoi, also said that severe and critical F0 cases at the hospital are on a downward trend. At its peak, the unit treated about 200 severe cases. Currently, the number of severe cases is only about 130 F0 out of a total of 200 Covid-19 patients being treated and cared for here. The hospital representative said that, although the number of Covid-19 cases in Hanoi increased sharply, because the people were covered with the Covid-19 vaccine, the number of serious and critical patients decreased.

With the central medical facilities, the representative of the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases informed that the total number of patients being treated at the unit is still about 570-580 cases, not much different from the previous period. However, the number of severe cases requiring hospitalization tends to decrease. “In the past, the number of patients applying to the hospital was quite large, but we did not have enough beds to accept them all, only as much as we could. And now there are enough beds to accept the majority of the transfer requests,” the representative said.

At another last-line medical facility, the Hospital for the Treatment of Covid-19 Patients (under the Hanoi Medical University Hospital), the hospital’s leader said that, about a week ago, the number of Covid-19 patients Treatment burden at the unit is tending to “stall”. Currently, there are about 130-150 severe F0 being cared for and treated by doctors.

Nguyen Lien