For each meal, officers and soldiers (CBCS) of the Provincial Military Command and the 3rd Division had to plan to prepare thousands of meals. “Our job is to cook nutritious and delicious dishes to help doctors, staff, health workers and patients have good health to defeat the epidemic” – Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Duc Hanh, Political Department, The provincial Customs Department shared. In order to have delicious, nutritious and regularly renewed meals, Hanh and his teammates have to discuss carefully with the Department of Nutrition, Provincial Rehabilitation Hospital to create a weekly menu. Officers and soldiers of the Provincial Military Command and the 3rd Division prepare meals to serve patients treated at the Rehabilitation Hospital. From the beginning of May until now, most of the staffs have participated in the fight against Covid with different tasks and roles. In agencies and units, they make plans, make training programs, and perform political tasks. Here again, the brothers became foster brothers. Rarely can they show their talents, each person has to work with knives and chopping boards to process together, then arrange a beautiful meal. Every day, with a little more experience, more delicious and diverse meals, we are also happy to receive positive feedback from staff, doctors and patients. To operate 2 field kitchens to serve thousands of meals for staff and doctors treating Covid-19 at the following locations: Primary Rehabilitation Hospital 1, Grassroots Rehabilitation Hospital 2 (at the Ngo Gia Tu College), Lung Hospital, No. 2 Infectious Field Hospital (Ministry of Defense), Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Duc Hanh promptly advised to equip 3 industrial rice cabinets with large capacity, able to cook 70 kg of rice/pot/time (each time cook for about 2 hours); mobilized nearly 100 CBCS to support. At the rate of 80,000 VND/person/day, the logistics force calculates and divides it according to the ratio of 2/4/4 (16,000 VND for breakfast, 32 thousand VND for lunch and dinner each). From early in the morning, the kitchen at the Oncology Hospital 2 at the Vietnam – Korea Vocational College of Technology was on fire. At the end of May 2021, the field hospital was quickly installed, the kitchen infrastructure was also cleaned and tidy by CBCS. On June 2, thousands of meals were prepared by the brothers. Major Nguyen Thanh Tung, Regiment 831 (Ministry of the Provincial People’s Army), Deputy Director of the Field Hospital said: Thanks to the support of the 3rd Division, the field kitchen here has 32 comrades, in addition there are 4 Chefs of large restaurants volunteer to assist. Tung just finished his words, lunch on June 12 includes: Hot roast meat, fried shrimp with onions, fried beans, fried eggs, roasted peanuts, boiled spinach, and sweet potato soup are beautifully presented. Lunch box, food, soup, dessert are packed separately, every food is neat. For seriously ill patients, young children, pregnant women, the kitchen based on registration needs to prepare porridge, nutritional powder, pho, vermicelli, bread and milk… even ready vegetarian meals. for dieters. Every job is proud For each staff member of the Ministry of Public Security of the province and the 3rd Division, participating in logistics services for field hospitals to treat Covid-19 patients is a special task but also extremely proud. Soldier Nguyen Khac Thu, 3rd Division said: “When the unit had information, I and many other comrades volunteered to the epidemic center in Bac Giang. We are involved in the construction, installation and now logistics of the field hospital. I am very proud of my small contribution together with the unit and Bac Giang people to soon fight the epidemic.” At the invitation of Major Nguyen Thanh Tung and Major Do Hong Vu, Logistics Department (Provincial Ministry of Customs), with the spirit of volunteering, Mr. Ha Van Tuan, chef of a large restaurant in Nham Bien town (Yen Yen). Dung) and three other chefs, ready to put aside personal work, volunteered to pack a backpack to a field hospital located at the Vietnam-Korea Vocational College of Technology. Tuan said: “As a professional, we also hope to cook delicious meals to serve patients, staff, and doctors. They can eat well to have the health to work.” Thanks to your dedication, from the beginning of June until now, the meals of the staff, doctors and patients here are always delicious. Senior Lieutenant Colonel Vu Van Hung, Deputy Director of Logistics, Ministry of Public Security of the province said: “In order to ensure the quality of meals at field hospitals and isolation areas in the province, the provincial Department of Customs has established a working group of officers. sets of rooms and departments; regularly inspect and supervise the organization of cooking force, ensuring logistics. We require kitchens to import food from reputable establishments with clear origins; Build a varied and nutritious menu on a weekly basis. Especially, the processing stage ensures a one-way process, is carefully packed and preserved before being transferred to the patient and stored.” Thanks to the methodical, orderly and orderly implementation, most of the field kitchens are operated by CBCS. Provincial Customs Department and Division 3 maintain regular maintenance, highly appreciated by the Provincial Food Safety and Hygiene Department. Post, photo: Tuyet Mai

Map of epidemiological information is established. Look at the map to avoid “hot spots” CovidMaps is an interactive map that helps people locate and look up epidemiological information visually on the map. It helps viewers take proactive precautions when moving near high-risk areas. The map is also a useful communication channel to help authorities promptly notify people of important information when accessing the map. CovidMaps also help professional agencies easily grasp the epidemic situation and detect epidemic hotspots. Le Yen Thanh, General Director of Phenikaa Maas Technology Joint Stock Company – the Covidmaps construction unit, said that the unit built itself using bMap map technology. The CovidMaps epidemiological map is currently being deployed in 9 outbreak localities: Da Nang, Hai Duong, Quang Ninh, Gia Lai, Bac Giang, Vinh Phuc, Phu Yen, Thai Nguyen and Lang Son. In these localities, people only need to access http: Covidmaps. (name of province and city).gov.vn for all epidemiological information related to Covid-19 in your locality. This is an effective tool for people to prevent the spread of the disease, easy to use on smartphones, and can be accessed by anyone. Le Yen Thanh said that when the Covid-19 epidemic broke out, many questions were raised and many problems solved. How to know that you have entered the epidemic area is the key to solving the next steps such as self-isolation, monitoring for signs of virus infection. In fact, the epidemiological information, the travel history of Covid-19 cases is inherently complicated. The updated data to the people is specific and regular (every 2 days), but it is still fragmentary, thus causing many difficulties in memorizing and finding the passing locations of the F0s. Tracing the journey, timely blockade, isolation at the right time is the key to cutting off the chain of infection of the virus. “Covid-19 map” on the application platform BusMap – city buses. The Covid map displays as a regular map with dots showing the locations of susceptible areas. This feature allows users to directly, easily and quickly identify places with a high risk of infection, thereby having an appropriate direction of movement, avoiding entering the epidemic area. The interface design of each map is quite easy to follow. The “stop” sign is the quarantine points, the house-shaped icon is the concentrated isolation facilities, the yellow dot icon is the patient’s home area, the + sign is a hospital and medical facility, the X sign is blockade and medical isolation areas. Each icon corresponds to the corresponding number detailed in real time. In addition, there are the number of F0 patients for the day, the number of Covid patients with updated data, and the phone number of the epidemic in the upper corner of the screen. Effective tool for epidemic prevention Mr. Le Yen Thanh said, when typing a specific address on the map, if that address is in a blockade or medical isolation area, there will be a red warning, with a specific blockade address. Patient housing areas are also highlighted in red. The map currently provides information including: Centralized isolation point, blockade area, patient’s home area, where the patient has been, where the patient has been for more than 14 days. Not stopping at a map just to see, the Covid map also recognizes whether the user’s location is coincident with an area at risk of infection. This helps users know the level of safety of their location and have an appropriate adjustment plan. Currently this feature is being widely introduced to BusMap users. During the process of being put into use, the application will actively receive feedback to improve this feature to provide the best value for people,” said CEO Le Yen Thanh. According to Mr. Le Yen Thanh, applying the epidemiological digital map to management, people can grasp epidemiological information in time, do not move to hot spots, helping to limit the spread in the community. Regarding the security of personal information, the specific information of the infected case such as address, full name is obscured. This is just the information that has been released publicly from the local epidemic prevention and control steering committee. When this data is available, the new data entry operator system is put in, because it is an official source of information, so it completely complies with the provisions of the law on personal confidentiality for infected cases. With the launch of the Covid-19 epidemiological information mapping software on May 24, Lang Son is the 9th province in the country to provide a Covid-19 epidemiological map tool to help the community monitor visually. epidemiological information of local cases through the Internet. As the first locality in the country to apply digital maps in the prevention of the Covid-19 epidemic in the area, Mr. Nguyen Van Quoc, Director of the Information Center for Public Services in Da Nang said: Translation information map Covid-19 epidemiology was built in August 2020 – when the first outbreak of the epidemic broke out in Da Nang and has been continuously improved since then. The data is constantly updated from reputable sources, combining both automatic and manual entry. Manual data entry is performed in cases where the addresses are not clearly identified. The biggest goal of this digital map is to help people have the most intuitive and accurate view of the Covid-19 panorama in Da Nang without having to search for individual bulletins. Le Yen Thanh said that localities in need will be free to transfer the application platform to serve the prevention of the Covid-19 epidemic.

Ho Chi Minh City continues to record many Covid-19 cases. Specifically, 2 cases of Covid-19 were isolated immediately after entering An Giang; 76 cases were recorded domestically in Ho Chi Minh City (46), Bac Giang (20), Bac Ninh (7), Nghe An (3); in which 71 cases were detected in isolation or blockade areas. Case BN12901-BN12903 was recorded in Nghe An province in the blockade area. The test result was positive for SARS-CoV-2. Case BN12904-BN12910 recorded in Bac Ninh province: 5 cases are F1 cases, 1 case is related to Van Duong outbreak, 1 case is related to Dai Phuc outbreak. The test result was positive for SARS-CoV-2. Cases BN12911-BN12914, BN12917-BN12932 were recorded in Bac Giang province in an isolated area and a blockade area, related to workers working in industrial zones. The test result was positive for SARS-CoV-2. Case BN12933-BN12978 recorded in HCMC: 41 cases are isolated F1 cases, 5 cases are under epidemiological investigation. The test result was positive for SARS-CoV-2. As of 6 a.m. on June 20, Vietnam had a total of 11,289 domestic Covid-19 cases and 1,689 imported cases. The number of new cases from April 27 to now: 9,719 cases, of which 2,280 patients have been declared cured. There are 22 provinces (Yen Bai, Quang Ngai, Quang Ninh, Quang Nam, Quang Tri, Thua Thien Hue, Tuyen Quang, Son La, Ninh Binh, Thanh Hoa, Thai Nguyen, Hung Yen, Hai Phong, Tay Ninh, Gia Lai, Bac Lieu, Dien Bien, Dak Lak, Dong Thap, Tra Vinh, Thai Binh, Vinh Phuc) has not recorded any new cases in the community for 14 days.

Accordingly, female patient HTH (37 years old) was admitted to Bac Giang Lung Hospital on May 26, receiving oxygen, but her disease progress was not good. By May 28, the patient was given HFNC (high-flow oxygen therapy through a nasal cannula). On 2-6, the patient was intubated, mechanical ventilation, dialysis, antibiotics. Treating severe Covid-19 patients in Bac Giang At 8 pm on June 14, the patient was transferred to the ICU Center and continued to receive mechanical ventilation, dialysis, and vasopressor use. However, the development of heart failure was very severe, requiring high-dose vasopressors, bilateral diffuse lung damage, and did not respond to optimal medical treatment. On the afternoon of June 15, the patient was assigned to conduct ECMO placement. As the person who directly treats the patient, Dr. Nguyen Tan Hung – Deputy Head of the Department of Intensive Care and Anti-Poison (Danang Hospital), Head of the Da Nang Medical Delegation in Bac Giang Hospital – said that after placing ECMO, vasopressors were discontinued and the blood oxygenation index improved. However, the prognosis for this 37-year-old female patient with Covid-19 is still severe because of damage to both her heart and lungs. Previously, on June 12, at this center, ECMO was also placed for NTT patients (67 years old). The patient tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, then was admitted to Bac Giang Lung Hospital for treatment from June 3 with shortness of breath, cough, SpO2 85%, mechanical ventilation and dialysis. Medical facilities are having 117 Covid-19 patients with severe prognosis On June 12, the patient was transferred to the ICU in a very serious condition, unresponsive to the ventilator, so he was intubated, mechanically ventilated, but the patient’s lungs were badly damaged and spread to both sides. The patient was placed by the team of Danang Hospital and medical staff within the same day. According to Dr. Hung, the patient is now awake, still dependent on ECMO, and his lungs are on an improving trend. It is known that as of the afternoon of June 15, there are 60 patients at the 101-bed ICU Intensive Care Center. In which, the good news is that more than 25 patients have been successfully weaned from HFNC; Eight patients tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 for the first time and two patients had a negative test for SARS-CoV-2 for the second time. According to the Treatment Sub-Committee, the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control, so far, there are 117 Covid-19 patients with severe prognosis in health facilities nationwide, 52 cases with very severe prognosis, and 6 cases with severe prognosis. case is at risk of death. There are 13 cases of ECMO intervention in the whole country, especially in Ho Chi Minh City, there are 4 serious and critical cases requiring ECMO intervention. Assoc. Prof-Dr. Luong Ngoc Khue, Director of the Department of Medical Examination and Treatment Administration, has sent an official dispatch to the Department of Health of Ho Chi Minh City on actively strengthening the management and treatment of Covid-19 cases and daily case reports. . To ensure the best management, care and treatment for patients, the Treatment Subcommittee (National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control), directs medical examination and treatment facilities to focus as much as possible. all resources to prioritize management, treatment and comprehensive care for Covid-19 cases. Line up treatment of cases in accordance with the patient’s condition, closely monitor the progress of each case, organize inter-disciplinary and inter-institutional consultations, consult with the Professional Council of the Ministry of Health through the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Manage and operate online to support the diagnosis and treatment of Covid-19, the Ministry of Health (when needed) to plan the best treatment for patients.

Dressed in white, Mr. Kumar sat in the courtyard of the crematorium with other monks. Of the 26 pyre, only one is in operation. Another body is on its way there. “It’s comfortable now. Every 3-4 days, a body with Covid-19 will come here. We have time to breathe, eat and sleep,” he said The Hindu . To this day, he still cannot imagine what he had to go through two months ago. Unforgettable days Walking around the crematorium, Mr. Kumar pointed to an empty lot. Here, the staff of the crematorium had to erect 9 more cremation pylons. On another site, 5 pyre were built. Now, this area is just a black coal-stained void, with a few bricks left. Mr. Kumar pointed to the land that used to be the cremation pyre of Covid-19 victims. Photo: The Hindu. Taking a step further, Mr. Kumar pointed to another field. “This used to be a children’s cemetery. However, when the number of deaths peaked, we had to turn this into a crematorium and build 72 more cremation pylons. We even had to break down a wall to move the wood in,” he recalls. For about 10 days in April, more than 20 staff at the crematorium, including monks, sanitation workers and helpers, worked 24 hours a day. They even have to cremate their bodies in the middle of the night, which is against Hindu beliefs. “People leave dead bodies at the door without telling us. In addition, many families asked us to send back the video of the cremation ceremony,” Mr. Kumar recalled. “My mother used to make me go home and sleep for a few hours. I chanted sutras even in my sleep, according to family accounts,” he recalls. “Now I can sleep well.” Mr. Kumar has a 6-month-old baby girl. He did not dare to hold his child for the past month and a half due to fear of contracting Covid-19. At home, he ate and slept in a separate corner, trying to stay away from family members. “We didn’t wear protective gear because it was too hot. Can’t breathe… We just use masks and gloves,” he said. Now, the situation is less tense. When India’s vaccination campaign kicked off, all crematorium staff were vaccinated. This is a priority object due to the need to handle the body of a person who died due to Covid-19. “We once cremated a 6-month-old boy, who died from Covid-19, while the father of the baby wept bitterly. I will never forget this scene,” Mr. Kumar said. The Covid-19 pandemic has caused pain to hundreds of thousands of Indian families. Photo: BBC. Return to normal state At Lok Nayak Hospital, two large tents used to be used as waiting rooms for patients in front of the emergency ward. To date, they have been removed. No more patients on oxygen outside the hospital. There is no longer a long line of ambulances with the sound of the patient’s family crying and begging the hospital to accept it. Mr. Abhay, a community volunteer, reminisces about the shifts at the peak of the epidemic. “I don’t want to remember,” he said. At the Punjabi Bagh crematorium, the trees used to die because new pyrements were erected next to them. Now the green sprout is back. “I got used to this scene from last year, so I wasn’t affected much,” said monk Pankaj Sharma. However, for inexperienced monks and staff, seeing a mass of bodies leaves a psychological impact. “There were days when we didn’t have time to eat,” said Deepanshu, a 23-year-old employee. “A working day starts at 6:30. We help the victim’s family. Many were crying, scared, and didn’t know where to go or what to do. We only get to rest after 9-10pm.” Contrary to Seemapuri crematorium staff, Deepanshu and colleagues have not been vaccinated against Covid-19. “When the vaccination campaign started, government officials called us to get information. They asked us to go to a nearby hospital. However, when they arrived at the hospital, they said we were not on the list,” one staff member told The Hindu. During the peak of the epidemic, Indian crematoriums operated day and night. Photo: Reuters. “We are near the bodies of Covid-19 and many Covid-19 patients. We deserve an injection,” Deepanshu asserted. Currently, only 1-2 bodies infected with Covid-19 are brought to this crematorium every day. Most of the pyre are not working. “The situation here is not as bad as other crematoriums. People still have to wait, but with a much shorter time,” said monk Pankaj Sharma.

HTH female patient, with a healthy history, no underlying disease, was found to have Covid-19 on May 26, transferred to Bac Giang Lung Hospital for treatment, had to breathe oxygen but her shortness of breath did not improve. . 2 days later, the patient was transferred to non-invasive mechanical ventilation. On June 2, she continued to be intubated, mechanically ventilated, dialysis osiris, and used antibiotics. Dr. Hung and colleagues intervened ECMO for patients at the 101-bed ICU Center in Bac Giang Due to her worsening condition, on the evening of June 14, Ms. H. was transferred to the largest Intensive Care Center (ICU) in the North with 101 beds located at Bac Giang Mental Hospital for mechanical ventilation, dialysis, and use. vasopressor drugs. However, the development of right heart failure was very severe, requiring high-dose vasopressors, bilateral diffuse lung damage, and did not respond to optimal medical treatment. Therefore, at 4 pm on June 15, the patient was assigned to place ECMO (artificial cardiopulmonary support). Dr. Hung said that after placing ECMO, the patient stopped taking vasopressors and improved the blood oxygenation index. However, the prognosis remains severe due to damage to both the heart and lungs. In this case, it will be necessary to continue to closely monitor each indicator. Earlier on June 12, also at the 101-bed ICU Center, doctors of Da Nang Hospital coordinated ECMO intervention for a 67-year-old female patient NTT., 67 years old. This case also had a history of being perfectly healthy. The patient tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, then was admitted to Bac Giang Lung Hospital for treatment from June 3 in a state of shortness of breath, cough, and blood oxygen reduced to 85%. enter and filter blood. At 12 o’clock on June 12, the patient was transferred to the 101-bed ICU Center in a very serious condition, intubated, and mechanically ventilated, but the patient’s lungs were severely damaged and diffused on both sides, so ECMO intervention was indicated. . With this case, up to now, according to Dr. Hung, the patient is awake, still dependent on ECMO, and the lungs are tending to improve. So far, the country has had 37 critical patients, of which 13 had to undergo ECMO intervention, of which the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases and Tropical Diseases Ho Chi Minh City had 4 cases each. Thuy Hanh

On May 28, the patient was given high-flow oxygen (HFNC). On June 2, the patient was intubated with mechanical ventilation, osiris dialysis, and used antibiotics. At 8pm on June 14, the patient was transferred to the Intensive Care Center (ICU, 101 beds, the largest in the North) and continued to receive mechanical ventilation, dialysis, and vasopressors. However, the patient’s condition developed very severe heart failure, had to take high-dose vasopressors, had bilateral diffuse lung damage, and did not respond to optimal medical treatment. At 4 pm on 15/6, the patient was assigned to place ECMO. Experts from the Intensive Care Center in Bac Giang are still making efforts to treat patients with COVID-19. According to Dr. Nguyen Tan Hung, deputy head of the Department of Intensive Care and Anti-toxicity, Da Nang Hospital, Head of the Da Nang Medical Delegation at Bac Giang Hospital, after placing ECMO, the patient improved the blood oxygenation index. However, the prognosis is still severe because of both heart and lung damage. Previously, experts from the Intensive Care Center also booked ECMO for NTT patient, 67 years old, in Bac Giang. The patient tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, then was admitted to Bac Giang Lung Hospital for treatment from June 3 with shortness of breath, cough, SpO2 85%, HFNC breathing and dialysis. According to Dr. Hung, currently, the patient is awake but still dependent on ECMO, the lungs are tending to improve. As of the afternoon of June 15, the Intensive Care Center in Bac Giang is treating 60 patients. In which, 25 patients were successfully weaned from HFNC, 8 patients tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 for the first time and 2 patients tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 for the second time.

Plastic surgery was born for the purpose of creating beauty and curing low self-esteem for those who are unlucky. Anyone who comes to this method wants to become more beautiful and perfect than the old version. However, on social networks, there are often many cases of broken “cutlery” that make many people panic. Some common “call for help” phenomenon is a deviated, crooked or retracted nose after rhinoplasty plastic surgery. In some cases, the bridge of the nose is lowered, the tip of the nose is swollen and even punctured, and the filler material comes out. Or worse, it’s nasal necrosis. As for the cases of eyelid surgery, the error that even an amateur can identify is the condition of the eye on the left side of the eye. Some are even more “horrible” than being unable to close their eyelids. The patient himself suffered a lot of pain and suffering to go online to ask for help and correct the mistake, but the doctor receiving the repair also received a lot of pressure. Because repairing is always more difficult than creating. Join TS.BS. Nguyen Duy Huan is currently working at the Department of Plastic Surgery, Vietnam Cuba Hospital to better understand the “correction” of this patient. How is plastic surgery nose and eyes damaged, doctor? Rhinoplasty and eye surgery, which side has more damage and why? It is often said that once the parts are cut, it is difficult to grow back. For example, cutting eyes or opening corners of eyes, once damaged, can it still be fixed? Women now no longer follow the fashion of opening the corners of their eyes, but opening the tails of their eyes. Can you tell me more about this cosmetic therapy? Repairing a damaged nose due to lifting and a nose with birth defects, cleft palate, is the dissection and repair technique the same? What’s the hardest nose job you’ve ever seen? People often think that doctors are people with “nerves of steel”, each incision or suture is very definitive. So, have you ever encountered such difficult cases, did the doctor feel pressured? What advice do doctors have for women? Before making the decision to have plastic surgery, you should choose a doctor who has real expertise: a minimum of 18 months’ license but the longer the better. Besides, you should also rely on the successful surgery of that doctor through pictures (long-term follow-up), friend referrals or real images you meet in life. The doctor must advise you from the beginning, directly operate and clearly explain the possible risks and the results in the most realistic way. Performing a simple rhinoplasty, many doctors can do it, but not many doctors can fix the crooked nose and birth defects. Therefore, you should not believe too much in advertising.

The bus took mother and daughter, pregnant woman T, back to her hometown. This woman is patient 3,961 (named HTKT, 20 years old; from Luc Ngan district, Bac Giang province), who was transferred to the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases 2 from May 17 when she was 35 weeks pregnant. . After a period of follow-up and treatment, on the morning of June 9, the pregnant woman with HTKT went into labor when the pregnancy turned 38. The hospital’s team successfully delivered the baby T, welcomed a baby girl born. healthy with a weight of 2.2kg. Currently, this woman has been treated for 14 days and has tested negative 3 times. In addition, the daughter of the F1 dependent mother has also been isolated for 7 days and has tested negative 3 times. Therefore, both mother and child are eligible for hospital discharge as prescribed. After returning to the locality, the mother and daughter will continue to isolate and monitor their health at home. Ms. Nguyen Thi Phuong Dung, nurse at the Pediatrics Department (National Hospital for Tropical Diseases) – who directly takes care of pregnant women, said: “Since the birth of mother T’s daughter, me and another colleague have been I was assigned to take care of the child. Thief, he was very obedient. In the last two days, he ate and slept during the day, but at night he was disturbed. Therefore, we had to take turns holding him. However, he ate. drink well and have stable health. To this day, I’m much stronger …”. To ensure the safety of mother and child, the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases arranged a bus and sent a nurse to take the mother and daughter back to her hometown. In addition to the above two cases, on June 15, there were 4 other patients being treated for Covid-19 at the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases 2, who had 2 or more negative tests, were discharged and returned to their places of residence. stay at home and continue to isolate and monitor for 14 days. Step 1: Visit https://www.bluezone.gov.vn or download directly at App Store or CH Play. Step 2: Once downloaded, the application will ask for permission to use Bluetooth to record contact with other Bluezone installed users. If Bluetooth is not open, drag the status bar and turn on Bluetooth; or go to Settings, select Bluetooth and turn it on. Step 3: Once the installation is done, click Scan Around. If someone near you less than 2m has used Bluezone, the application will automatically identify these users and put them in the contact list.

Previously, on May 17, the patient was transferred for treatment at the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases after testing positive for SARS-CoV-2. At that time, T. was pregnant at 35 weeks. On June 9, the patient successfully gave birth to a baby girl weighing 2.2 kg at 38 weeks of gestation. After giving birth, the woman was transferred to the Hepatitis Department for further Covid-19 treatment. After giving birth, the baby was cared for and nurtured by 2 nurses from the Pediatric Department to avoid infection from the mother. After 14 days of treatment, T. had 3 times tested negative for SARS-CoV-2. T.’s daughter is in the F1 category, has been isolated for 7 days and has also tested negative 3 times. Therefore, both mother and child are eligible to be discharged from the hospital according to regulations. After returning to the locality, they will continue to isolate and monitor their health at home. To ensure the safety of mother and child, the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases arranged a car and sent a nurse to take them home after nearly a month away from home. The daughter of pregnant woman T. is taken care of by medical staff in a separate area to avoid contracting the virus from her mother. Photo: BVCC. Pediatrician nurse Nguyen Thi Phuong Dung, who directly took care of the baby, said: “Since the baby was born, me and a colleague have been assigned to take care of the baby. Thief, the baby is very good. The last two days. Here, during the day, he eats and sleeps, but at night he is disturbed. That’s why we have to take turns holding him. However, he eats well and is in stable health. To this day, he is hard. cable a lot”. In addition to the above 2 cases, on June 15, 4 other patients being treated for Covid-19 at the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases had 2 or more negative times. They were also discharged from the hospital and returned to their place of residence, continuing to isolate and monitor for 14 days at home.

As life expectancy increases, it means that we will have to live with many chronic health problems such as cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, etc. and must take drugs to control these conditions. However, when the disease is stable or in good progress, some drugs will be considered to be discontinued to minimize “multi-drug” and adverse interactions. The scientists found that, among more than 29,000 adults aged 65 and older, who stopped taking cholesterol-lowering medications (while maintaining other medications), had an increased risk of having a cardiovascular emergency. and death. “The results of this study suggest that cutting back on statins may not be the optimal way,” said lead author Federico Rea, of the University of Milan. The patients in the study were taking a statin (such as lipitor) along with blood thinners, blood pressure medications, and diabetes medications from October 1, 2013 to January 31, 2015, and were followed up until January 31, 2015. ends June 30, 2018. Compared with those who continued to take statins, patients who stopped taking them were 24% more likely to need hospital care for heart failure, 14% more likely to have certain other heart conditions, and more likely to die. mortality from any cause is higher than 15%. They were also 12% more likely to need emergency treatment. Because the benefits of statins outweigh the risks in terms of cardiovascular protection, physicians should carefully consider discontinuing their use in elderly patients, the researchers said. Often doctors and patients want to cut off certain medications in the elderly, to avoid having to take multiple medications at once, reduce drug burden, and limit drug interactions… However, this is not always the case. is a safe choice. When deciding to discontinue medication, the physician should carefully consider the evidence based on it. Dr. Benjamin Hirsh, Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital said. The American Heart Association recommends starting statins before age 75 for patients who need it, and continuing it in patients over 75 years of age who can tolerate it. This study further reinforces the benefit of continued statin treatment in older adults, even among those taking multiple other medications. Dr. Gregg Fonarow, University of California said. Jade ( According to Drugs 6/2021 )

According to information from the largest intensive care center in the North, female patient HTH (37 years old) admitted to Bac Giang Lung Hospital on May 26 received oxygen, but her disease progress was not good. On May 28, the patient was given HFNC breathing. On June 2, the patient was intubated with mechanical ventilation, osiris dialysis, and used antibiotics. At 20:00 on June 14, the patient was transferred to the 101-bed ICU Intensive Care Center and continued to receive mechanical ventilation, dialysis, and vasopressor use. However, the state of right heart failure is very severe, must use high-dose vasopressors, diffuse bilateral lung damage, does not respond to optimal medical treatment. Therefore, at 4 pm on June 15, the patient was assigned to conduct ECMO placement. As the person who directly treats the patient, Doctor Nguyen Tan Hung – Deputy Head of the Intensive Care and Anti-Poison Department (Da Nang Hospital) – Head of the Da Nang Medical Delegation at Bac Giang Hospital said: “After placing ECMO , the patient was able to stop vasopressors and improve the blood oxygenation index. However, the prognosis remains severe because of damage to both the heart and lungs. Previously, on June 12, at the 101-bed ICU Intensive Care Center, ECMO was also placed for NTT patients (67 years old). The patient tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, then was admitted to Bac Giang Lung Hospital for treatment from June 3 with shortness of breath, cough, SpO2 85%, HFNC breathing and dialysis. At 12 o’clock on June 12, the patient was transferred to the 101-bed ICU Center in a very serious condition, unresponsive to HFNC, so he was intubated, mechanically ventilated, but the patient’s lungs were severely damaged and diffused. On both sides, P/F is lower than 60. The patient was ordered by the team of Danang Hospital and friends to place an ECMO on 12/6. With this case, up to now, according to Dr. Nguyen Tan Hung: “The patient is awake, still dependent on ECMO, the lungs are tending to improve, wish all the best for the patient”. It is known that as of the afternoon of June 15, there are 60 patients at the 101-bed ICU Intensive Care Center. In which, the good news is that more than 25 patients have been successfully weaned from HFNC; Eight patients tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 for the first time and two patients had a negative test for SARS-CoV-2 for the second time.

Immunity in a person who has had COVID-19 lasts up to 13 months after infection. A study at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (USA) also emphasizes the effect of vaccination after COVID-19 infection, because some patients under observation have very low antibody levels. In a study by Rockefeller University scientists (USA) who followed 63 people with COVID-19 in the spring of 2020. They found that antibodies are produced by recording B lymphocytes memory becomes more effective in neutralizing SARS-CoV-2. In addition, the researchers also found that “vaccination boosts immunity naturally developed by these people during infection, to the point where they can be protected against new variants appear”. Therefore, once infected with the virus and vaccinated against COVID-19, immunity will be created especially strong. Rosemary ( Femme Actuelle June 2021 )

According to information from the Center for Intensive Care, female patient HTH (37 years old) was admitted to Bac Giang Lung Hospital on May 26 and given oxygen, but her disease progress was not good. On May 28, the patient was given HFNC (High Flow Oxygen Therapy through the Nasal Catheter). On June 2, the patient was intubated with mechanical ventilation, osiris dialysis, and used antibiotics. Severe COVID-19 patients placed ECMO at the largest Intensive Care Center in the North. At 8 pm on June 14, the patient was transferred to the Intensive Care Center and continued to receive mechanical ventilation, dialysis, and vasopressor use. However, the state of right heart failure is very severe, must use high-dose vasopressors, diffuse bilateral lung damage, does not respond to optimal medical treatment. Therefore, at 4 pm on June 15, the patient was assigned to conduct ECMO placement. As the person who directly treats the patient, Dr. Nguyen Tan Hung – Deputy Head of the Department of Intensive Care and Anti-Poison (Danang Hospital), Head of the Da Nang Medical Delegation at Bac Giang Hospital said: “After placing ECMO, The patient was able to stop the vasopressors and improve the blood oxygenation index. However, the prognosis remains severe because of damage to both the heart and lungs. Previously, on June 12, at the Intensive Care Center, ECMO was placed for NTT patient (67 years old). The patient tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, then was admitted to Bac Giang Lung Hospital for treatment from June 3 with shortness of breath, cough, SpO2 85%, HFNC breathing and dialysis. At 12 o’clock on June 12, the patient was transferred to the 101-bed Intensive Care Center in a very serious condition, unresponsive to HFNC, so he was intubated, mechanically ventilated, but the patient’s lungs were severely damaged. spread on both sides. The patient was placed on ECMO right on 12/6. With this case, up to now, according to Dr. Nguyen Tan Hung: “The patient is awake, still dependent on ECMO, the lungs are tending to improve. Wishing all the best to the patient.” As of the afternoon of June 15, there were 60 patients at the 101-bed ICU Intensive Care Center. In which, the good news is that more than 25 patients have been successfully weaned from HFNC; Eight patients tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 for the first time and two patients tested negative for the second time.

Notably, patient 11000 received 2 injections, patient 11001 received 1 dose of COVID-19 vaccine in Cambodia. Case 10833 (born in 1985, living in Di An district, Binh Duong province) works as a worker at a company in Kampot province, Cambodia. From May 15 to 27, this person will be isolated at the company’s dormitory. Two negative COVID-19 test results. Measure body temperature of people entering the border. Photo TM Ảnh On June 11, this person completed entry procedures to Vietnam at Moc Bai International Border Gate and was taken to concentrated isolation at Bau Don Secondary School. On June 14, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) of Tay Ninh province confirmed the positive result for SARS-CoV-2. Case 11000 (born in 1976, living in Thoi Hau A ward, Hong Ngu city, Dong Thap province), lives in an area near Ho Luong market, Cambodia. On June 12, the patient returned to Moc Bai International Border Gate to complete entry procedures into Vietnam, and was taken to a concentrated isolation area at Phuoc Thanh Secondary School, Phuoc Thanh Commune, Go Dau District. On June 14, test results confirmed positive for SARS-CoV-2. Case 11001 (born in 1988, address in My Thanh commune, Tan Tru district, Long An province), worked as a mason for a construction project in Phnom Penh city, Cambodia. On June 14, the patient returned to Moc Bai International Border Gate, completed entry procedures into Vietnam and was taken to isolation at the Ben Cau District Medical Center. Today, the CDC of Tay Ninh province confirmed that the patient was positive for SARS-CoV-2. Currently, all 3 patients are being monitored and treated at Ben Cau District Medical Center. The provincial health sector has identified 94 close contact cases, isolated in concentrated isolation areas at Phuoc Thanh Secondary School and Bau Don Secondary School. As of the evening of June 15, the whole province of Tay Ninh recorded all 69 cases of COVID 19. In which, there was 1 case of community transmission, 68 imported cases. There were 36/69 patients cured and discharged from the hospital and there were no deaths.

“Every time I see a patient facing life and death, I am ready to donate blood,” midwife Hoang Thi Hang confided. “In that situation everyone would do the same” In the many times of blood donation to save lives, the time she rode a motorbike 45km 6 years ago to give emergency care to a bleeding pregnant woman with Ms. Hoang Thi Hang (Medical Center of Nguyen Binh district, Cao Bang province) she still remembers it clearly. That day, when I received a call from the Chairman of the SOS blood donation club in Cao Bang province, it was already 10:00 at night. It was a woman with bleeding that the blood store of the provincial general hospital ran out of blood type. “By natural reflex, I got up and drove 45 km from my home to the provincial hospital to donate blood for the sick. I myself did not think about what I would encounter on the way,” – Ms. Hoang Thi Hang recounts his story. Also in another time, when Hang was on a business trip in Thach An district, Cao Bang, on the way back, she received information that there was a patient in need of emergency blood and the blood group coincided with her blood group B. Forgetting the fatigue of the business trip, Hang drove down to the hospital to donate blood. At that time, she only thought about how to walk as quickly as possible so that the patient could hope to be saved. “Every time I see a patient facing life and death, I am ready to donate blood, just hoping that my blood will help them through the crisis,” midwife Hoang Thi Hang shared. Working at the Medical Center, when a patient needs blood, she is ready to respond. I don’t think it’s a big job, but in a situation where people can save lives, everyone will do the same! Ms. Hoang Thi Hang in a blood donation session Right from 2004 when she entered Cao Bang Medical School, Ms. Hoang Thi Hang was taught by teachers about voluntary blood donation. When she went to clinical practice at the Provincial Hospital and witnessed with her own eyes many acute blood loss patients being saved from those volunteer blood drops, she was even more eager to participate in this noble work. Not only is she a blood donation volunteer, she is also a recipient of such emergency blood units. “I myself used to be a patient who donated blood due to hemorrhage during childbirth. As a person who was saved by blood drops of volunteers, I understand more than anything the meaning of this act. As an officer Working in the medical industry, interacting with many patients standing on the border of life and death, I understand the importance of every drop of blood given,” Hang shared. Build a mobile blood store For Ms. Hang, voluntary blood donation is a noble gesture, not only saving the lives of patients but also giving blood donors a joy and happiness because they have done a very noble thing. : “A drop of blood gives, a life stays”. On average, she donates blood 2-3 times a year. As a volunteer, Ms. Hang has participated in many voluntary blood donation activities in Cao Bang province such as the Pink Spring Festival, Red Sunday; Red Journey Army Association and support blood donation points in 11 districts and cities. Besides voluntary blood donation, Hang and her Voluntary Blood Donor Club participate in blood donation campaigns, especially many times of emergency blood donation. The number of volunteers’ blood donations reached over 500 registrations and about 400 blood units were collected. Among the volunteers who were mobilized by her to donate blood were relatives, relatives, friends, colleagues, neighbors… Now, they themselves have become mobile “blood warehouses” that are always ready. response” whenever the patient needs it. They are not only volunteers but also propagandists, spreading good deeds to the community, so that every day the number of blood donors increases, the number of anemic patients decreases… Volunteering to become a “living blood bank” for patients, midwife Hang has shown a noble gesture, expressing the dedication, conscience and responsibility of medical staff. In 2021, Hoang Thi Hang is in the list of 100 typical blood donors honored nationwide.

Cu Chi Covid-19 Treatment Hospital has received 192 patients/500 beds for Covid-19 treatment. The fact that Cu Chi Covid-19 Treatment Hospital is on-site dialysis for 5 Covid-19 patients is a very good thing, acknowledging the outstanding efforts of the medical staff working here, when before Meanwhile, Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases has not been able to do this. In addition, Cu Chi Covid-19 Treatment Hospital can also perform emergency surgical interventions, gastrointestinal endoscopic interventions, obstetric interventions, etc. on Covid-19 patients without having to be transferred to other hospitals. city’s specialist hospital. This helps the health sector in Ho Chi Minh City not be passive in receiving severe Covid-19 patients, especially when it has to blockade the City Hospital for Tropical Diseases as in the past days. As for the 500-bed Covid-19 treatment unit, “split into two” from Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital, as of June 15, it has received 10 Covid-19 patients for treatment. Trung Vuong Hospital is ready to take part in receiving and treating Covid-19 patients, with a scale of 1,000 beds. Thus, the health sector of Ho Chi Minh City has realized the goal of deploying 2,500 beds to treat Covid-19 patients at 8 hospitals, including: Cu Chi field hospital (300 beds), Hospital Covid-19 treatment in Can Gio (600 beds), City Hospital for Tropical Diseases (400 beds), Cu Chi Covid-19 Treatment Hospital (500 beds), Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital (500 beds), Hospital City Children’s Hospital (100 beds), Children’s Hospital 2 (60 beds), Cho Ray Hospital (40 beds). The health sector of Ho Chi Minh City is ready to implement a plan to increase the total number of beds for treating Covid-19 patients to 3,500 beds, when Trung Vuong Hospital comes in, with 1,000 treatment beds. Another good news is that from June 16, Tan Phu District Hospital will reopen, after 15 days of temporary blockade due to 4 emergency drivers infected with Covid-19 from the outbreak of the Ehome 3 apartment complex. Binh Tan District). During medical isolation to prevent and control the Covid-19 epidemic, medical staff who were in close contact with Covid-19 cases were taken to quarantine according to regulations. Isolation staff at the hospital and at home all adhere to isolation regulations, are periodically tested for Covid-19 with all negative results. According to the Board of Directors of Tan Phu District Hospital, the hospital has arranged to arrange personnel and start up equipment to be ready for operation again on June 16, 2021.

Measure body temperature of people on entry. On June 15, Tay Ninh province recorded 3 more cases of COVID-19 who were imported from Cambodia. In which, 2 cases were injected with 1-2 doses of COVID-19 vaccine by the Cambodian side. Case 10833 (SN 1985, living in Di An district, Binh Duong province) works as a worker at a company in Kampot province, Cambodia. From May 15 to 27, this patient was isolated at the company’s dormitory; negative test results for COVID-19 twice. On June 11, Patient 10833 completed immigration procedures to Vietnam at Moc Bai International Border Gate and was taken to concentrated isolation at Bau Don Secondary School. On June 14, CDC Tay Ninh confirmed positive results for SARS-CoV-2. Case 11000 (SN 1976, lived in Thoi Hau A ward, Hong Ngu city, Dong Thap province), lived in an area near Ho Luong market, in the Kingdom of Cambodia. On June 12, the patient returned to Moc Bai International Border Gate to complete entry procedures into Vietnam and was taken to a concentrated isolation area at Phuoc Thanh Secondary School, Phuoc Thanh Commune, Go Dau District. On June 14, CDC Tay Ninh confirmed positive results for SARS-CoV-2. Case 11001 (SN 1988, address in My Thanh commune, Tan Tru district, Long An province), worked as a mason for a construction project in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. On June 14, the patient returned to Moc Bai International Border Gate, completed entry procedures into Vietnam and was taken to isolation at Ben Cau District Medical Center. On June 15, the Tay Ninh CDC confirmed that the patient was positive for SARS-CoV-2. Currently, all 3 patients are being monitored and treated at Ben Cau District Medical Center. The health sector has identified 94 close contacts, isolated in concentrated isolation areas at Phuoc Thanh Secondary School and Bau Don Secondary School. In these 3 patients, patient 11000 received 2 doses of COVID-19 vaccine in Cambodia and patient 11001 also received 1 dose of the vaccine from Cambodia. As of tonight (June 15), Tay Ninh province recorded all 69 cases of COVID-19, including 1 case of community transmission, 68 imported cases. There were 36/69 patients cured and discharged from the hospital and no one died.

– Patients with vitiligo are stable for at least 1 year (meaning you have no new lesions or old lesions within 1 year). – No Kobner phenomenon: no vitiligo lesions appear in the trauma area. – No history of keloids due to trauma. Doctors will take skin from the hip or front thigh in the ratio of 1/5 (if the lesion is extensive, this ratio can be 1/10). This piece of skin is put into the solution, through the stages, the epidermal cells will be separated, nourished, and then grafted into the skin with vitiligo. The transplanted cells will be fixed with gauze and removed within a week. Each patient takes about 2-4 hours to complete all procedures depending on the area of ​​​​the lesion. “Usually vitiligo patients only need a transplant once, but patients can also transplant more than once to increase efficiency. Time to achieve the effect is usually after 1-2 months, maximum after 6-12 months” – BS. Sharing mind. To achieve high therapeutic effect, it can be combined with light therapy. After treatment, the patient can function and work normally. Currently, the National Hospital of Dermatology is the leading specialist address that has successfully applied autologous epidermal cell transplantation without culture to treat vitiligo and other hypopigmentation disorders. Vitiligo is a color disorder, manifested as white, non-itchy, non-scaly, well-defined spots that can appear at any age and greatly affect the psychology of patients.
• The disease occurs in all skin types, all ages and equally in men and women.
• Vitiligo is considered an autoimmune disease with an underlying genetic predisposition in most cases.
• Vitiligo is not caused by lack of medical care.
• Personal behavior or mental state can play an important role in disease control.
• Vitiligo is not contagious, it is not contagious, but infectious agents may play an indirect role in the onset in some cases.
• Vitiligo is not related to an inappropriate diet, but the right diet can help treat and control the disease.
• Vitiligo does not appear to be directly related to pollution, but the environment plays an important role in disease progression.

• The role of genetic factors is not clear yet.
• Appropriate medical and/or surgical therapies can adequately treat more than 75% of affected subjects.
• Be optimistic to control disease! Currently, there are many studies being conducted all over the world to find a treatment for vitiligo.

The sisters said to me: We can do everything to share with you, only we can’t rush in to treat patients together.” . Just hearing that, we felt so grateful. In the past 41 days with over 50 critically ill and critical patients, our ICU has never been so “epic”. Patients spread from area 1 to zone 2, a total of 50 ICU beds. Something is missing, the ICU has it. We live and work with a number of “assets” of up to many billions of dong: High-function ventilators up to more than 50 “em”, ECMO to nearly a dozen staging, Prismaflex to nearly 20 “em”; The artificial kidney machine also reached nearly 20 “em”. We go to bed also worry about the machine… scratch the paint. About 41 days, the ICU alone consumed 150 Oxiris filters, 50 sets of M100s, 10 sets of ECMO and 2000 bags of Prismazon. Thought I saw… terrible! *** So more than a month has passed, time flies. Today, the ICU house is as crowded as a festival, busy and chaotic. There are joys, but many sorrows. This is probably the most memorable time of our lives. Colleague love, comradeship, love, humanity are all here. The pressures and hardships we have never dared to complain or complain about, because I know that our hardships are just a small corner in the fierceness of the COVID-19 pandemic. We here only know how to do our best, wholeheartedly to save the critical COVID-19 cases. And, in the past 1 month, over about 4,000 new cases of this fourth outbreak, many of which are severe, fast-paced, and critical. Many patients are very sick, but have escaped death spectacularly. Tracheostomy for COVID-19 patients at the ICU bed. One thing I am sure of is that my female colleagues have shed tears at least once in the past 41 days. Because they are not the same person, they are also weak and weak. They have an average weight of less than 50kg, a height of less than 1.6m, but their strength is extraordinary and their love is intense. They love their job, love people, love all of this life. They fight with love for their profession, with their duties and responsibilities as doctors. They have overcome many hardships and challenges, although everyone faces the risk of infection and the work intensity is terrible. I love those girls, the golden girls in the COVID-19 village. Small but strong, weak but indomitable. The pandemic is so fierce, we are just a small corner in this pandemic. Do not dare to be pompous. But everything we experienced is very difficult to describe in words. Female friends can burst into tears. Who can bear to think of a baby crying all night because of thirst for milk, when a loved one has to be separated without a date to return, this tear cannot be swallowed. Who can be at ease when the whole family goes to fight the epidemic, leaving a sick and lonely mother in a 12m2 motel. And who can rest easy when both parents rush to the front line, leaving the child bewildered all night. We have chosen to sacrifice many things to contribute a part to the great cause. And male medics behave their way. They ran down to the yard, screaming like a man out of control. What is he shouting, you know? “50 patients! 50 patients! Fight to the end! Fight to the end!” (50 patients related to COVID-19 have died, by noon on June 15, the number of patients who died was 61). God, I felt my eyes go away, and I wanted to hug him and cry. That is the person who always volunteered to bury the ill COVID-19 patients, who had no loved ones by their side at the time of death. Please adhere to 5K and cherish precious vaccines Life is inherently impermanent, leaves fall to the roots. Those unfortunate people, they died without family, but we, the doctors, the nurses were always with them, holding their hands throughout the battle. With a mortality rate of less than 3%. If forced to choose to meet the amount of that 3%. I firmly believe those people, people who have reached an age that is rare, who have tasted all the bitterness of life, who have struggled with cancer. They will be willing to accept the departure. to leave the lushness of life to flourish. Giving life to a 25-week-old baby, giving up the happiness of a couple’s love to a 27-year-old boy, giving up the dedication to science of doctors, or simply giving up smiles to children… They know that we have put our heart and soul into pulling them out of the gate! They knew that we had spent the last 41 days up all night beside them, they knew that the doctor’s eyes were wilted from lack of sleep. Today is the 41st day, I don’t know how many long days and nights will be left, we have to fight the epidemic and win against COVID-19. No one is allowed to fall. We want people to adhere to the 5K, to appreciate the precious doses of vaccines. Get vaccinated if you can, and support the Vaccine Foundation if you can afford it. Let’s join hands to fight the pandemic and spread love. Me and my friends are proud to be soldiers in white at the heart of this storm… Nurse Nguyen Thi Thuong ( Chief Nurse, Intensive Care Unit, Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases )

Assoc. Dr. Luong Cong Thuc, Deputy Director of Military Medical Hospital 103, Director of Infectious Field Hospital No. 2. “Fighting the Covid epidemic is considered by us as a task to fight in peacetime,” Assoc. Dr. Luong Cong Thuc, Deputy Director of Military Medical Hospital 103, Director of the No. 2 Infectious Field Hospital confirmed so. His words are like an oath, a declaration of war against the Covid enemy right in the middle of the “fire pan” in Bac Giang right now. At 8:00 am on June 3, the second online consultation of the day by Dr. Thuc and his colleagues. The working atmosphere is urgent and serious, all computers, 4G-enabled smartphones, and the Internet system of 14 doctors and nurses are ready to connect with a stable connection. Every day, the Board of Directors (Board of Directors) of the Hospital (closed in the outer circle) based on the situation of organizing scheduled or ad-hoc online consultations with the staff, medical staff, and doctors who are directly treating patients. (ring in). Thanks to the application of information technology, all images and sounds about the treatment situation for Covid-19 patients from areas at the No. 2 Infectious Field Hospital are transmitted to the operating area. Without any walkie-talkie, the hospital’s doctors and nurses can still fully grasp the information, see the images clearly, and hear each sound in a realistic and multi-dimensional way. This solution has been implemented from May 23 to now. On the television screen connected to the Internet with the Board of Directors’ room, on the other side, Major, specialist I Le Tien Dung, Head of Emergency Department, quickly reported on the condition of patient N.D. .T (86 years old). Using a smartphone, Dr. Dung directed the rotation of machines and equipment so that the Board of Directors understood important indicators. The unit’s doctors participated in online consultations to discuss treatment regimens for Covid-19 patients. X-ray film of patient T in the electronic medical record is enlarged. Both sides of the “front line” can easily exchange information and analyze health conditions, thereby giving treatment plans, drugs to use, and methods of care. All data of a paper medical record is converted into an electronic medical record. Perhaps in the midst of the intense battle with the Covid epidemic, electronic medical records and online consultations are considered the “ultimate weapon” of the doctors here. Doctor Dinh Cong Pho – who writes software, designs and realizes electronic medical records from the idea of ​​Dr. La Quang Ho. The specific characteristics of the hospital treating Covid patients is that it is divided into separate areas: the treatment area for severe patients; treatment area for moderate and mild patients; The stabilization zone is for patients who have tested negative for the first time, preparing for discharge from the hospital, these areas are difficult to connect with each other. Therefore, using traditional paper medical records and face-to-face consultations is not suitable, treating doctors and nurses cannot move freely from one area to another while still having to know the patient’s condition. 24 hours. Major, Master La Quang Ho, Deputy Director of Infectious Field Hospital No. 2 proposed the initiative to implement electronic medical records. He and Lieutenant, Doctor Dinh Cong Pho, Head of Infection Control Department, No. 2 Infectious Field Hospital discussed and designed to bring the application of electronic medical records and online consultation into reality. The electronic medical record is designed on the open source Kobotoolbox. This is an online tool for data collection and management, making scientific research activities easier and more accurate. Doctor Pho shared: “The electronic medical record is designed on the open source Kobotoolbox. We use this medical record along with online consultations and briefings with Zoom software to discuss the patient’s treatment regimen. This solution best conveys information by both headphones and eyes (especially X-ray films of the patient’s lungs), promoting effective treatment of patients in specific conditions.” The battle is still long After many outbreaks in Bac Giang, the Covid-19 epidemic had complicated developments, the Ministry of Defense directed the establishment of the Infectious Field Hospital No. 2 – Military Medical Hospital 103/Military Medical Academy in China. Group 831 (which is stationed in Tan Yen district, Bac Giang province) to promptly collect and treat patients. In just 2 short days, more than 120 officers and doctors of units such as: Military Medical Hospital 103 (Military Medical Academy), Air Force Medical Hospital (Air Defense – Air Force) ), the Military Institute of Traditional Medicine arranged and installed the hospital with the goal of speed and decisive victory. Patient N.Đ.T. is cared for and treated with enthusiasm by the doctors and nurses of the No. 2 Infectious Field Hospital. On the evening of May 21, the hospital completed its facilities, arranged departments, rooms, and the hospital received 42 patients. That number increased rapidly. Up to now, the unit is collecting and treating 324 patients, most of them are female, the youngest patient is 6 months old, the oldest patient is 87 years old. Immediately after admission, all patients were carried out biochemical tests, chest X-rays, investigations, and recorded background disease history. According to Dr. Luong Cong Thuc, the application of information technology in medical examination and data management by electronic medical records and consultation via the Internet is really effective in the battle against the Covid-19 enemy. Through treatment, the majority of patients improved, symptoms decreased, clinical manifestations were closely monitored by doctors and nurses. For patients with more severe symptoms, the unit promptly moved to the treatment area for severe patients at Bac Giang Provincial General Hospital. The first 4 patients were discharged. Thanks to this solution, on June 2, 4 patients were discharged from the hospital. As one of these four patients, Ms. LTN (Luc Ngan) said emotionally: “Today I am very happy to be discharged from the hospital. I would like to sincerely thank the doctors and nurses for taking care of us and treating us.” In addition, many other patients have made good progress like the VMH sisters… Post, photo: Tuyet Mai

Stretch yourself to treat patients with severe prognosis in the epidemic center of Bac Ninh Doctors at Bac Ninh Provincial General Hospital are treating 119 cases of Covid-19. Of these, 25 patients had a severe prognosis. As of the morning of June 9, doctors in Bac Ninh were treating 789 Covid-19 patients. In which, Bac Ninh Provincial General Hospital is the only facility to treat serious patients with 25 cases. 10:00 a.m. every day is the time when doctors and nurses at the hospital’s Covid-19 treatment area are busy in their work. In the severe cases being treated here, one patient had to use an invasive ventilator, 10 cases of high-flow oxygen and 14 cases of mask/glass oxygen. This patient is doing well, is able to respond to the doctor’s questions and perform some simple limb movements. For better health cases, doctors encourage patients to sit up and move on their own. The daily work of the medical staff is to administer prescription drugs to each patient, provide care, and report severe cases or unusual developments… Ms. Nguyen Thi Thao (ICU) is one of the doctors involved in treating Covid-19 patients from the first days. The female doctor did not remember how many days had passed since she was in the hospital. On stressful shifts, she worked 20 hours in a protective suit. The diet of each patient is monitored by the doctor every day. They can choose food such as rice, vermicelli, porridge… depending on their needs. At lunchtime, the nurse will deliver food to each room. Ms. Thao said that nutrition greatly affects the health and treatment of patients. “Many people skip meals, lose their appetite… we have to give them a lot of encouragement. Sometimes it’s even comforting or directly feeding them,” the female doctor said. The treatment rooms have a camera system installed, which is convenient for remote monitoring. At the same time, it helps to reduce the time of medical staff in contact with positive patients, limiting the risk of infection. 24 medical staff divided into 3 treatment cases taking turns. Including reinforcements from the provinces of Phu Tho, Thai Binh, Yen Bai… After finishing the shift, they changed into protective clothing, disinfected and then returned to the resort arranged right inside the campus of the company. hospital.

Robots deliver food and medicine to Covid-19 patients. Photo provided by Captain, Dr. Nguyen Dinh Quan. Two robots were assigned by the delegation: Lieutenant Colonel, Dr. Nguyen Anh Van, Vice President of Special Robotics and Mechatronics Department, Faculty of Aerospace and Captain, Dr. Nguyen Dinh Quan; Major, Master Hoang Van Tien installed and transferred it to the staff, doctors and nurses on duty here. This robot named Vibot weighs 60 kg, moves at 30 m/min, works for 12 hours continuously, after the battery runs out, it automatically searches for the charging station. Monitoring and control range 150 m (wireless) and expandable up to 500 m. Vibot can replace 3-5 medical staff (working inside – direct contact with patients) operating according to pre-loaded programs or direct instructions of users. Robot named Vibot was put into use on June 3. Photo: CTV Vibot can also build a path by itself according to the preloaded work area map or self-build, safely move in and out of the designated area to perform the task without any outside assistance. . Simultaneously detects and stops, bypasses fixed and movable obstacles to reach predefined locations. Currently, Captain, Dr. Nguyen Dinh Quan and Major and Master Hoang Van Tien are transferring technology to doctors and nurses at the treatment area for Covid-19 patients at Bac Giang Provincial General Hospital. It is known that in addition to reducing the risk of infection, the robot also creates conditions for medical staff to better focus their time and effort on serving, caring for and treating seriously ill patients. Snow Mai

Vehicles move on the street in Wellington, New Zealand. (Photo: THX/VNA) It is no coincidence that New Zealand consistently tops the rankings of both Bloomberg and Australia’s Lowy Institute for COVID-19 response. At the end of 2020, Bloomberg ranked New Zealand as the country with the best overall response in the world to the pandemic. In May 2021, the country in Oceania continued to hold the top spot in Bloomberg’s ranking, despite the rate vaccination against COVID-19 in New Zealand is still quite low, 4.8% of the population, while this index of Singapore, the second ranked country, is up to 29.9%. It is worth mentioning that from October 2020 to May 2021, only in April, New Zealand “gives” this top position to Singapore. Over the past three months, New Zealand has not recorded any more cases of infection in the community. Since the discovery of the first COVID-19 patient on February 28, 2020, this Pacific island nation has had a total of 2,681 cases, of which 17 are being treated, 26 have died and 2,638 who recovered. Life has almost returned to normal for the Kiwi Country’s 5 million people. Authorities lifted restrictions on people and economic activity in the country, but mostly closed borders to prevent the virus from entering the country. When assessing New Zealand as the world’s leader in COVID-19 response, experts agreed that the country had taken the most decisive, quick and effective measures to handle the pandemic, with the least impact. to economic and social activity. To achieve this, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s government, with the support of the people and business community, has adopted a strategy of “going ahead and going strong.” New Zealand’s anti-epidemic model is basically prevent the virus from entering foreign countries, purchase equipment to protect essential workers, strengthen testing, contact tracing, isolating cases and above all implementing blockade and social distancing society to cut off the chain of infection.The “secret” of this country can be summed up in six words: drastic-timely-synchronous. Immediately after the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the SARS-CoV-2 virus as a global health emergency, New Zealand on February 2, 2020 decided to ban the entry via air of foreign nationals. All passengers arriving from China, while New Zealand citizens and arrivals from other countries must self-isolate for 14 days. On March 25, when the number of cases in the country was about 200, New Zealand quickly declared a national emergency and Close the border Although the country’s economy is heavily dependent on tourism. Foreigners entering by air and sea must be tested and isolated at a designated facility. With this step, New Zealand has “locked” the door to the virus entering from abroad. The New Zealand government also urgently establishes a national system to directly register personal protective equipment to identify all equipment manufacturers capable of supporting the fight against the epidemic. Many domestic enterprises have responded and increased domestic production or cooperated with foreign companies to find sources to buy masks, hand sanitizer, face shields and medical gowns. The government is also promoting the establishment of a public-private joint venture to purchase test kits and reagents (chemicals for testing the SARS-CoV-2 virus) from various suppliers. While many countries are also looking to buy these medical items when supplies are scarce, New Zealand has achieved a higher test rate than developed countries like the US or South Korea at the same time, with about 2,200 tested per 100,000 population by mid-May 2020. For contact tracing, New Zealand using both “low technology” and high technology to identify and test all close contacts of COVID-19 patients for 14 days. The primary method of tracing is that officials ask each COVID-19 patient to identify their close contact. In addition, the “NZ COVID Tracer” smartphone application for tracing virus infections was deployed simultaneously. People wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in Auckland, New Zealand, February 14, 2021. (Photo: THX/VNA) New Zealand has stopped, not just mitigated, the spread of the disease in the community thanks to the rapid adoption of very strong measures. On March 25, 2020, just three days after confirming a domestic infection, authorities implemented a nationwide blockade measure. This is one of the countries applying the strictest blockade order in the world. Although New Zealanders have a high sense of self-discipline, the police still encourage citizens to report violators of epidemic prevention regulations. In just a few weeks, police received more than 336 reports of violations. New Zealand’s disease chart in the first wave of infections last year has demonstrated the effectiveness of anti-epidemic measures. The number of new cases per day began to decrease significantly from 89 cases / day on April 5 to only 9 cases / day two weeks later. On April 27, the government began easing the blockade order, although it still imposed some distancing measures. On May 13, New Zealand did not record any new cases, so on June 8, the government completely lifted the blockade order. During the outbreaks of re-emergence in Auckland city in August 2020 and February 2021, authorities immediately took drastic measures. For example, on February 14, New Zealand locked down Auckland, the largest city in the country to prevent the COVID-19 epidemic after recording three new infections in the community on the same day. Meanwhile, the remaining localities apply level 2 restrictive measures. When the outbreak in the community is extinguished, restrictive measures are also eased step by step with extreme caution. One highlight of New Zealand’s anti-epidemic work is the application of technology. New Zealand was one of the first developed countries to use a smartphone app to track infections. In April, the country also launched a trial of a surveillance “elarm” application to detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus, with an accuracy of up to 90% within three days before the patient showed symptoms. such as cough, shortness of breath, and fatigue. Integrated with wearable devices such as smart watches or health monitoring devices, the application uses artificial intelligence to detect sudden changes in the user’s heart rate, temperature body temperature, thereby providing an early warning to detect signs of COVID-19. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (centre). (Photo: AFP/VNA) Experts say that New Zealand has proactive, strong, focused, science-based epidemic response measures, and at the same time implements these measures well. In research published in the journal The Lancet Public Health, expert Sarah Jefferies and colleagues point to the factors contributing to New Zealand’s success in the fight against the pandemic are rapid improvements in testing capacity and management. handling cases, the blockade order was for a short time (almost 4 weeks) but very strict. In addition, rapid interventions when the number of cases is low, for example, the warning level increases from 1-4 in five days when the number of cases has not exceeded 1,000 cases. A team of experts from the University of Otago (New Zealand) highlighted the key element of the government’s rapid, science-based risk assessment combined with early and decisive action. The implementation of interventions at various levels (border control, control of community spread, and control of cases) are also effective against the epidemic. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is highly appreciated for her ability to effectively convey the main message to the community – consider fighting the epidemic as the task of a unified collective of 5 million people, thereby being trusted and obeyed by the people. under very strict restrictions. The above-mentioned drastic measures against the epidemic helped reduce human losses with a very low mortality rate, only 0.53 cases per 100,000 people, but also cost the economy due to the closure policy as well as the impact of the pandemic. Translate. New Zealand’s economy recorded a record 2.9% contraction in 2020. However, in terms of the long-term outlook, the economy is forecasted to grow again this year thanks to the government’s economic stimulus package and New Zealand’s ability to restore normal life as before. pandemic. Moreover, it is the good control of the epidemic that has brought New Zealand’s great economic recovery opportunities. The results of a Bloomberg survey conducted in October 2020 with the participation of about 700 people, most of them senior executives in many industries, of which 53% are from large corporations and 47% are from large corporations. SMEs, showing that New Zealand is the country most trusted by business leaders to invest in the future. In fact, the economy of the “kiwi land” has rebounded as business confidence recently improved and the unemployment rate plummeted to 4.7% in the first quarter of 2021. The Ministry of Finance projects gross domestic product (GDP) growth to reach 2.9% in 2021 and gradually accelerate to 4.4% in 2023. Kiwibank’s chief economist, Jarrod Kerr, said the view For the future, a program to roll out vaccines, travel bubbles with Australia and many other countries in 2021 will support solid growth in 2022. New Zealand’s drastic, timely and synchronous approach to the COVID-19 epidemic, from blockade, distance, to tracing and treatment, has become a model of anti-epidemic recognized by the international community. and provide useful lessons to help governments plan how to respond to the current pandemic as well as future pandemic outbreaks.

On the afternoon of May 8, Mr. Huynh Van Dung – Director of the Center for Disease Control of Khanh Hoa Province (Khanh Hoa CDC) said that the health sector is urgently tracing patient 3141 with COVID-19 when traveling in Nha Trang. -Khanh Hoa and initially identified dozens of related F1s. In the immediate future, these F1 cases will be isolated and tested. The province’s health sector is also continuing to review and trace the patient’s F1 to control the disease. Accordingly, on May 1, patient 3141 went from Noi Bai airport (Hanoi) at 16:05 to Cam Ranh airport on flight VN1559. From 17:45, Patient 3141 takes a taxi from Cam Ranh to Pear City Hotel No. 7 Hoang Dieu (Nha Trang City), then have dinner at Asian Restaurant, No. 17 Hoang Dieu. On May 2, from 8am to 3pm, patient 3141 hangs out at Vinpearl and has lunch at Lotte restaurant, Nha Trang city. At 5:00 p.m. on the same day, patient 3141 traveled in Da Lat city on Limosine Khanh Phong car (BKS 51B 41365), along the way stopped to eat at a restaurant on the road. CDC Khanh Hoa recommends that those who have contact, related to call the hotline 0911662233, go to the nearest medical center, provide phone numbers of close contacts. Visitors wait for procedures to take the cable car to Vinpearl Nha Trang. Photo Festival According to Lam Dong Department of Health, Patient 3141 also has a dense travel schedule in Da Lat City. On May 2, Patient 3141 took a bus to Hoang Quan Hotel, Nguyen Van Cu Street, Ward 4, Da Lat City. During the travel in Da Lat, patient 3141 went to visit and take photos at many places such as: On May 3, he went to Dog Farm, Sheep Farm (Ward 7), Palace of Light (Ward 8); on May 4, went to Ve Chai Pagoda, Lam Vien Square, Da Lat Night Market, Thien Moc Trinh Coffee, Dalat Golf Coffee, etc. On May 5, Patient 3141 from Da Lat to Hanoi on flight VN1572 at 10:25. Currently, the health sector of Lam Dong province has isolated 179 cases of F1 and deployed samples to test for SARS-CoV-2 in many related cases in Da Lat city. In the area of ​​Linh Phuoc pagoda (Ve Chai temple, ward 11, Da Lat city), the authorities have taken samples for testing more than 20 suspected cases of F1 of patient 3141.

Quiet, gentle and discreet, Quy Hoa maple village (Ghenh Rang ward, Quy Nhon city, Binh Dinh province) is like a small hidden corner in Quy Nhon beach town. The beautiful beauty of the natural scenery blends in the 60-hectare area, once there was a maple village. Tucked away in a valley surrounded by mountains and sea, Quy Hoa maple village was once like a quiet stop in the middle of a lute written with captivating and enchanting tunes of nature. This is also the place where poet Han Mac Tu once lived and spent his whole painful life in this place. For a long time, everyone remembers the sad and despairing verses of the Han poet: “Whose boat docks at that moon river / Can bring the moon back in time tonight?”, or “Who buys the moon, I sell the moon?” for?”. The evil disease came to the poet with the surname Han in the midst of the undeveloped medicine, plus the alienation of the world made him have to find a faraway place to lull his soul. Mr. Chin hopes that, in addition to helping the leper villagers develop their economy, this moon boat can be put into tourism service. Quy Hoa, a place that has long been implicit in people’s minds is a refuge for people with leprosy. Many people come and go, the remaining patients are a struggle when they have passed most of their human lives, sitting on the porch in the afternoon waiting for the day to pass. But, Quy Hoa now suddenly makes people feel surprised at the transformation of a land that was haunted by pain and miserable fates. In a hidden corner near the coast of Quy Hoa, fisherman Le Van Chin (52 years old) sat contemplatively in front of a row of coconut trees fluttering in the sea breeze. He was probably one of the few special people in this place. Around where he sat, small blue boats were spread out on the sand. He smiled happily, pointed to each boat and said: This boat is yours, that boat is yours, that one… all of them are made by you. And he was also a leper patient at one time. In 1981, when he was still a young teenager in the coastal area of ​​Phan Thiet (Binh Thuan province), he discovered that his limbs lost sensation, then hard lumps gradually appeared on his body. The family took Mr. Chin to Quy Hoa for treatment. At that time, there was a huge guilt in him. But then, at that time, medicine was also more developed, his disease was completely cured. He had a time to return to his hometown of Phan Thiet and go to the sea, but his love with his daughter Ghenh Rang held him back to this land. He is here, working as a seafarer and living in harmony with other sick people. The sea job is very hard, especially for those who have been sick and in poor health in the leper village. Towing heavy basket boats to the sea or to shore every day is a problem. Once, when he saw too many plastic drums being discharged in industrial zones, he came up with the idea of ​​​​making boats from plastic containers. He bought 10 boxes and did his own research. Having made a boat in the past, he quickly built himself a boat from these plastic drums. Lighter boats made of bamboo slats sweep oil, surf faster, maintenance work is also less, more convenient when pulling into the water or bringing ashore, suitable for the health of patients in Quy Nhon. Hoa. Many people see the advantages of this type of boat so they are very interested, they put him to do it. He made 3 types of boats, including pointed boat, cradle boat, and high-pronged cradle boat. Each type is 4m long and 1.2m wide. Each of these boats uses 7 drums of 200 liters type and some auxiliary materials such as freight, screws, bamboo… Currently, the cost to complete each boat is more than 4 million VND, he sells it for a price. 5 or 6 million dong. Mr. Chin with his moon boats. Many fishermen in Quy Hoa consider this boat to have many advantages. Because it’s plastic, it’s easier to float on the water, and the machine can be installed so that it doesn’t take much effort to row. Moreover, the boat has a longer service life when the bamboo boat is only used for 3-4 years to degrade, and the price is more expensive. Therefore, in the past few years, Mr. Chin has made about 60 of them by himself. In addition to relatives in the maple village, there are also some fishermen in Khanh Hoa and Phu Yen who also come to work. He named it “the moon boat Han Mac Tu”, in memory of the talented but unlucky poet who used to live in this maple village. He said to make and sell these boats because their shape is half moon, like the moon. But this place is associated with many memories of the talented poet of the past. From the day there was a television report on a boat with a strange name “Han Mac Tu moon boat”, many tourists coming to Quy Hoa wanted to meet Mr. Chin and take souvenir photos with him with the “moon boat”. Indeed, if you visualize it well, you can see that the boat has the shape of a new moon. The “Han Mac Tu moon boats”, which are popular with Quy Hoa fishermen, also make tourists inside and outside the province when coming to Quy Hoa excited to learn, adding the element of taking advantage of the waste drums, reducing environmental damage. school. Moon boat’s ambition In the memory of the patients once here, the leper village that day also had several hundred leprosy patients. Life was difficult and lacked enough, they did not return to their homeland but decided to settle here, considering Quy Hoa as their second homeland. Missing home, missing their loved ones, they bury them in their hearts to face the sick life they are suffering from. Mr. Chin’s moon boat is made from a 200-liter drum and some auxiliary materials such as freight, screws, bamboo… Painful little people have long had to deal with the gnawing of disease. But, in them, there is still an enduring vitality, strangely resilient. Meeting them, it seemed that no wound had ever been imprinted on the already emaciated bodies because of the evil leprosy. Meet them in the leprosy village of Quy Hoa, where the disease was famous nearly a century ago. But, there are love affairs that each of us feels warm to know. Like Mr. Chin’s love affair with his current wife, like a fairy tale in this feng shui village, where the moon boat seemed to have brought them together, to a happy shore for the past few decades. Few people know that Ms. Vo Thi Thuy (a resident of Ghenh Rang ward) is not like the leper villagers. She did not get sick, but because she loved this kind, hard-working man, she decided to live in the same house with him. At that time, in 1988, the psychology was still very heavy for the sick people in Quy Hoa and that mentality also had a great influence on ordinary people like Ms. Thuy. Like many others, Ms. Thuy’s feelings for Mr. Chin at first were just concern and sharing between people. But then, when love comes, I don’t know. And they had a wedding, then entered the leper village. Called “wedding”, but in the late 80s of the last century, people lived in poverty, disease, simple weddings with only a few cakes, candy, and invited friends and patients to congratulate, in front of the event. witnessed by the hospital board. It was all a great effort. Love is the magic medicine that helps them overcome illness and live better. Living together in love, the patients no longer feel guilty. The power of love has become a spiritual medicine along with the advancement of medicine that has helped many people overcome illness. But, in order to overcome the guilt and obstacles of her family and relatives, Ms. Thuy was determined to come to Mr. Chin, even though the difficulties were endless. A corner of Quy Hoa maple village today. And now, her choice has paid off somewhat. Every day, Mr. Chin, besides going to the sea, builds moon boats for people in the village. Good news spread far away, his boat was popular in many places, he built boats for fishermen in many coastal villages in other localities. During the stormy seasons, when he could not go to the sea, he stayed at home to build boats. Husband and wife and children live peacefully and happily with other families. His children are all grown up, in which the youngest daughter is in high school. That seems to be a worthy reward for his life after hard days. Mr. Chin’s house is not difficult to find, from the hospital gate, go to the right about 50m, you will see a boat placed by the roadside, follow that road about 50m more, on the right hand side, you will see a whitewashed house in front of you. beautiful white is a man who is hard at work. With the “moon boats”, the economy of Mr. Chin’s family and many other households has thus improved significantly. But, he has another wish, which is to put these boats into tourism. “If boats made of drums can carry tourists to Quy Nhon beach, the children of leprosy patients will have jobs. Thus, economic conditions are improved, life will be less difficult, “- Mr. Chin confided. Currently, in Binh Dinh in general, Quy Nhon in particular is on the way to developing tourism, including Quy Hoa maple village. Therefore, Mr. Chin hopes that his moon boats will not only help Phong village people more convenient in catching coastal seafood, but also can participate in tourism services.

Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Photo: Daily Mail According to the Daily Mail (UK), this incredible mistake was revealed in a screenshot sent to a Chinese medical journal. The photo shows information about a 61-year-old woman, known as “patient Su”, who lives about a mile from one of Wuhan’s main virus research facilities. The woman was also near a train station along the high-speed rail line that played a key role in spreading the virus around the city of 11 million people. This latest finding was revealed through an interview by a medical journal with the scientist tasked with compiling China’s official data on cases. In an interview with Health Times, Yu Chuanhua, Professor of Biostatistics at Wuhan University, said there were 47,000 confirmed and suspected cases on the national database of COVID-19 by the end of the year. February 2020. Among these, there was a death of a patient at the end of September 2019. “There is data on a patient who became ill on September 29. The data shows that the patient has not been given a nucleic test and a clinical diagnosis. It is possible that this is a suspected case of COVID-19. The patient died. This data has not been confirmed,” added Mr. Yu. The data also shows that two other suspected COVID-19 cases were reported to doctors in Wuhan on November 14 and November 21, 2019, along with several other cases prior to December 8, the period. China informed the World Health Organization (WHO) of the first cases. Inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Hubei Province, China. Photo: AP The Health Times article includes screenshots of information of two suspected COVID-19 cases in November 2019 on the database of Professor Yu. Although the patient’s personal details have been obscured, some information can still be seen, including the hospital name and home address. Information shows that patient Su has been treated at Rongjun hospital in Wuhan. Both the home address and the hospital where this patient is being treated are in Hongshan District, Wuhan City, where many studies on SARS-CoV-2 virus related to bats have been conducted in laboratories. experience. The area where patient Su lives and is treated is more than 20 kilometers from the Huanan seafood market, which Beijing initially believed to be the source of the COVID-19 infection. The second patient discovered in November 2019 is a 62-year-old man named Wang, who is being treated at Hanyang Hospital. However, Professor Yu has requested that the information published in the newspaper be retracted, claiming that the dates were entered incorrectly and that all other suspected cases before December 8, 2019 need further verification. . Wuhan Institute of Virology, Hubei Province, China. Photo: EPA This detail was discovered by Gilles Demaneuf, a member of the Drastic digital operations team, who discovered many facts that are said to contradict the theory that COVID-19 is an infectious disease from animals. Chinese objects. “We were able to accurately determine the name, age, and address of the suspected COVID-19 case very early, almost a month before the first case was officially announced. This address is right next to metro line 2 and not far from the hospital that treated some of the other first cases,” Demaneuf said. The railway system, which carries 1 million people a day, is linked to a seafood market, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and an international airport, he said. Demaneuf argues that these new findings show that more clues can be accessed if there are continued and determined efforts to evaluate the hypothesis that the virus leaked from the laboratory. The Wall Street Journal last week also cited a US intelligence report that said three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized for medical care in November 2019, a few months before China announced it. announced the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in this country. However, China has denied the above information. Beijing insists the WHO-led investigation team concluded after a visit to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in February that the possibility of a virus leak from the laboratory was “extremely unlikely”.

Part of this 58-year-old male patient’s vision has been restored, allowing him to recognize, count, locate and touch various objects displayed on the table in front of him. (Photo: New York Times) According to research results published on May 24, scientists in Europe and the US have applied optical genetic engineering to treat a patient who lost vision due to an inherited disease of photoreceptors. 40 years ago. This involves injecting them directly into the patient’s eye, combined with stimulation for several months by wearing light-emitting glasses, which convert images into pulses of light printed onto the retina. A 58-year-old blind man was able to partially restore vision in one eye with the help of a breakthrough treatment using genetic engineering and light-activated therapy. The patient, who lives in France, was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a degenerative eye disease that affects the retina at the back of the eye and causes it to stop working, almost 40 years ago. year. However, several months after the treatment, he was able to recognize, count, locate and touch various objects with the treated eye while wearing a pair of light-stimulating glasses. The researchers say that although their findings, published in the journal Nature Medicine, are still in the early stages, their work could be seen as a stepping stone to targeted treatments. new target for people with RP (RP – a condition in which the cells in the retina that receive light are disrupted, which can lead to total blindness). It is the most common inherited eye condition, affecting around 1 in 4,000 people in the UK. The researchers used a technique, called photogenetics, to genetically alter cells in the retina so that they produce light-sensitive proteins called channelrhodopsin. The treatment, which is done by injecting an eye into one eye, activates the gene that codes for a channelrhodopsin protein called ChrimsonR, which senses amber light. The team also developed specialized goggles equipped with a camera to capture and project visual images onto the retina at amber wavelengths of light. The patient then trained for several months as the genetically engineered cells began to stabilize. Seven months later, the patient began to show signs of improvement in vision, the researchers said. The team also said their patients were “excited” after this first experience of partial vision. With the aid of the light-stimulating glasses, the patient was able to locate, recognize, touch and count objects such as notebooks, pin boxes and glasses on a white table in front of him. The researchers also read the patients’ brain activity using a technique known as an electroencephalogram. A tortoise is alternately raised or removed from the table, and the patient must press a button to indicate whether it is there or not. The results from the experiments show that patients can recognize with 78% accuracy. Although this type of optical genetic therapy may be beneficial in restoring visual function in people with RP-related blindness, more results from this trial are needed, the researchers say. clearer picture of the safety and effectiveness of this approach. José-Alain Sahel, lead author of the study from France’s Sorbonne University and the National Center for Scientific Research, said: “It is important that blind patients suffer from various types of neurodegenerative diseases. and functional optic nerve would likely qualify for treatment. However, the effectiveness of the treatment depends on the extent of the patient’s optic nerve degeneration. He said it will take more time to study this method before it can be put into practice. Quynh Hoa According to The Irish Times

Part of this 58-year-old male patient’s vision has been restored, allowing him to recognize, count, locate and touch various objects displayed on the table in front of him. (Photo: New York Times) According to research results published on May 24, scientists in Europe and the US have applied optical genetic engineering to treat a patient who lost vision due to an inherited disease of photoreceptors. 40 years ago. This involves injecting them directly into the patient’s eye, combined with stimulation for several months by wearing light-emitting glasses, which convert images into pulses of light printed onto the retina. A 58-year-old blind man was able to partially restore vision in one eye with the help of a breakthrough treatment using genetic engineering and light-activated therapy. The patient, who lives in France, was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a degenerative eye disease that affects the retina at the back of the eye and causes it to stop working, almost 40 years ago. year. However, several months after the treatment, he was able to recognize, count, locate and touch various objects with the treated eye while wearing a pair of light-stimulating glasses. The researchers say that although their findings, published in the journal Nature Medicine, are still in the early stages, their work could be seen as a stepping stone to targeted treatments. New target for people with RP (RP – a condition in which cells in the retina that receive light are disrupted, which can lead to total blindness). It is the most common inherited eye condition, affecting around 1 in 4,000 people in the UK. The researchers used a technique, called photogenetics, to genetically alter cells in the retina so that they produce light-sensitive proteins called channelrhodopsin. The treatment, which is done by injecting an eye into one eye, activates the gene that codes for a channelrhodopsin protein called ChrimsonR, which senses amber light. The team also developed specialized goggles equipped with a camera to capture and project visual images onto the retina at amber wavelengths of light. The patient then trained for several months as the genetically engineered cells began to stabilize. Seven months later, the patient began to show signs of improvement in vision, the researchers said. The team also said their patients were “excited” after this first experience of partial vision. With the aid of the light-stimulating glasses, the patient was able to locate, recognize, touch and count objects such as notebooks, pin boxes and glasses on a white table in front of him. The researchers also read the patients’ brain activity using a technique known as an electroencephalogram. A tortoise is alternately raised or removed from the table, and the patient must press a button to indicate whether it is there or not. The results from the experiments show that patients can recognize with 78% accuracy. Although this type of optical genetic therapy may be beneficial in restoring visual function in people with RP-related blindness, more results from this trial are needed, the researchers say. clearer picture of the safety and effectiveness of this approach. José-Alain Sahel, lead author of the study from France’s Sorbonne University and the National Center for Scientific Research, said: “It is important that blind patients suffer from various types of neurodegenerative diseases. and functional optic nerve would likely qualify for treatment. However, the effectiveness of the treatment depends on the extent of the patient’s optic nerve degeneration. He said it will take more time to study this method before it can be put into practice. Quynh Hoa According to The Irish Times

Nathan Copeland controls a robotic arm using electrodes implanted in his brain. Published in the journal Science, the team say their work demonstrates that adding sensation to the technology significantly improves the function of prostheses for quadriplegics, compared with based solely on visual cues. Nathan Copeland, 34, told AFP: “I am the first person in the world to have a device implanted in the sensory cortex that scientists can use to stimulate my brain directly. And then, I felt like I had a real feel in my flesh and blood hand.” In 2004, Copeland was involved in a car accident that left him with a severe spinal cord injury and quadriplegia. He volunteered for scientific research and six years ago he underwent major surgery to implant tiny electrodes in his brain. Two sets of 88 electrodes the width of a human hair are arranged like tiny combs and penetrate deep into the cortex, which controls motor function. According to Associate Professor Rob Gaunt of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Pittsburgh, co-leader of the study, fewer than 30 people in the world have received such a transplant. What’s unique about Copeland’s case is that an additional set of electrodes is connected to his dorsal cortex, which receives and processes sensations. The idea of ​​sending haptic feedback to the tactile sensory cortex dates back decades, but doing so in a controlled and understandable way by brain circuitry used to be a major challenge. After Copeland underwent surgery to install the electrodes, the team was truly thrilled. Then came the decisive moment, when they tried sending the first tactile signal. “It felt really fuzzy,” Copeland recalls. He asked them to try again to make sure it was real. Before the interface could work with the robotic arm, the scientists had to perform a series of tests on Copeland. First, they needed to learn which electrodes cause what sensation when activated and which fingers are associated with them in order to set up the robotic hand correctly. They also made him watch a video of the robotic arm moving left or right and recorded the electrodes lighting up when he was asked to “think” it was him controlling it. Copeland sat next to a black metal robotic arm and was asked to pick up a series of small objects such as rocks and spheres and place them in a box – when the tactile sensors were turned on or off. He can complete each task in an average of twice as fast when the sensors are activated, and can even perform more complex tasks like picking up a glass and pouring its contents into a glass. another cup. The team wanted to further refine the prosthetics because they didn’t want to just do science experiments in the lab, but wanted to actually make devices that would be useful to people. Copeland has set up his brain-computer interface at home when the Covid-19 pandemic shut down universities and has used his downtime to learn how to draw on a tablet and even play video games. death. He does this by using his mind to send signals directly to the computer, instead of using his arms to press buttons.

Localities must review and increase their capacity for emergency, active resuscitation and treatment of Covid-19 patients. Illustration The official cable stated that, from April 28, 2021 up to now, the situation of the Covid-19 epidemic has had very serious developments. The whole country recorded over 2,000 cases of Covid-19 in 30 provinces and cities; 9 deaths. About 10% of cases have severe and very severe course. Some localities do not have good preparation for emergency and active resuscitation conditions, so when there are serious cases, they are awkwardly handled and transferred to higher levels, putting pressure and overloading on end-line hospitals. Faced with this serious challenge, the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control is the head of the Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control; Chairman of the People’s Committees of provinces and cities urgently consolidate the conditions of facilities, equipment and emergency vehicles, especially ventilators, central oxygen systems, compressed air, consumables, medicines. necessary; strengthen the capacity of emergency and active resuscitation at provincial and municipal general hospitals and hospitals assigned to collect and treat Covid-19 cases. Provinces and cities that have not detected Covid-19 cases immediately send treatment teams to train and improve their diagnostic and treatment capacity at last-line hospitals (or train online). The National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control criticized hospitals assigned to treat Covid-19 in some provinces and cities for their lack of initiative in emergency work, active resuscitation, and case treatment. disease Covid-19. The Steering Committees for Covid-19 Prevention and Control in the provinces and cities direct the directors of the health departments and the directors of the hospitals to review the capacity of hospitals to treat Covid-19 patients in the area; prepare conditions to receive, isolate and treat patients according to the motto “4 on the spot”. The Department of Health and hospitals report daily case progress, treatment capacity, emergency, and active resuscitation on the online software cdc.kcb.vn. Localities are ready to prepare plans to assign at least one hospital in the area as a field hospital (based on the local population size), including arranging emergency and intensive care areas and prepare medical equipment and other conditions. Step 1: Visit https://www.bluezone.gov.vn or download directly at App Store or CH Play. Step 2: Once downloaded, the application will ask for permission to use Bluetooth to record contact with other users who have installed Bluezone. If Bluetooth is not already on, drag the status bar and turn on Bluetooth; or go to Settings, select Bluetooth and turn it on. Step 3: Once the installation is done, click Scan Around. If someone near you less than 2m has used Bluezone, the application will automatically identify these users and put them in the contact list.

The job of therapy cats is to be with, play, and provide warmth at the end of life for patients. However, Oscar is not like other feline friends. As commented by the staff at Steele House: “Oscar is not a friendly cat, he often avoids, sometimes hisses at people when he wants to be alone. .” When he was 6 months old, Oscar began to appear strange powers. Like a messenger of bad news, Oscar has the ability to clearly determine who is about to be picked up by death. Usually about two days before a patient’s death, Oscar would leave his preferred locations and walk through the building’s hallways, visiting individual patients but never staying long. Dr. Dosa said: “ When someone is not ready to die, the cat will walk away. It won’t be in their room until the day they die. Sometimes it will be in the patient’s room up to 4 hours in advance. But usually it only appears about 2 hours before they take their last breath .” Oscar’s way of signaling was to jump into bed, lying next to a patient who was too weak to ward off it. Soon after, the patient takes his last breath. Up to now, more than 100 cases have been correctly predicted by Oscar, helping Oscar become a famous “cat of death” in the US media from 2007 to 2010. And there was only one death without Oscar’s presence. Not because the cat was unpredictable or inattentive, but because a relative of the patient asked to have the cat removed from the hospital bed. However, even when taken out, Oscar still had strange reactions. The cat scratched the front door, meowing. Apparently he wanted to stay in his room and wasn’t happy about being kicked out. Despite the possibility of death, Oscar was not hated at all. In contrast, staff at Steele House often closely observe the cat’s movements to contact the patient’s family soon. Many people were able to meet their loved ones at the last minute. Most of them are grateful to Oscar. Some even praised Oscar’s actions, saying that the cat was trying to get close to and bring warmth to the patients in the moment before saying goodbye to the world. At Steere House, there are currently 25 letters from the patient’s family to thank the cat. Some experts put forward scientific theories to explain this phenomenon. According to them, it is likely that Oscar’s action was simply to alert nurses and medical staff to the patient’s current condition. For example, with a dying person, the frequency of activities and movements in the room will be more (the reason is that medical staff often have to pay attention and follow up). Oscar may very often go to the bedside of a sick person, simply because he senses something unusual. In the animal kingdom, many species have the ability to sense and respond to signals that are difficult to detect around. In the case of Oscar, if the cat keeps wandering around the rooms, the possibility of contact with many people, including the dying patient is quite high and as such, this is just coincidental, accidental. . However, many people disagree with this interpretation. Previously, there was an interesting study that showed that dogs are animals that can detect cancer and some other diseases, although the success rate is not high. Although they do not have extrasensory abilities, instead, their super-sensitive nose helps detect subtle signs of disease that appear during the body’s response to disease. Like dogs, Oscar also has the same ability to smell. The chemicals secreted by the body when dying will trigger a response, but it is not obvious because countless other mixed odors in the hospital such as flowers, food, medicine, cleaning solutions, etc. have masked the “smell” the scent of death”. Until now, the story of the cat Oscar has not been clearly explained by science, so many people still believe that this cat really has the ability to “foretell” about death.

Accordingly, people traveling on the following flights and passenger cars need to conduct concentrated isolation: – Flight VN1595 from Noi Bai to Cam Ranh (Nha Trang) departs at 16h05 on May 1. – Limousine bus Khanh Phong (51B-41365) from Nha Trang to Da Lat from 17h – 20h30 on 2/5. – Flight VN1572 from Da Lat to Hanoi departs at 8:30am on 5/5. People who have traveled through the following points should be isolated at home: – Pearl City Hotel, 7 Hoang Dieu, Vinh Nguyen, Nha Trang from May 1 to May 2. – Asian restaurant, 17 Hoang Dieu, Vinh Nguyen, Nha Trang from 19:10 on May 1. – Vinpearl Nha Trang from 8-15h on 2/5. – Lotteria restaurant Hon Tre Island, Vinpearl, Nha Trang noon 2/5. – Suoi Da Hon Giao, Khanh Vinh district, Khanh Hoa province, from 18:30 on 2/5. – Hoang Quan Hotel, 9/1 Nguyen Van Cu, Ward 4, Da Lat from 8pm on 2/5 to 8:30am on 5/5. – Pho Thuong, 2 Nguyen Van Cu, Ward 1, Da Lat from 8-9 am on 3/5. – Puppy Farm dog farm, ward 7, Da Lat, from 14-15h30 on May 3. – Cuu Farm, Ward 7, Ward 7, Da Lat from 15:30 to 16:30 on May 3. – Palace of Light, 222B Mai Anh Dao, Ward 8, Da Lat from 17h30 to 18h30 on 3/5. – Eros Salmon Restaurant 24 3/4 Street, Ward 3, Da Lat on the evening of May 3. – Nam Vang noodle soup with 2 bowls, 26 Pham Ngu Lao, Da Lat from 7-9h on 4/5 and 6-6h30 on 5/5. – Cafe Golf Dalat, 14 Dong Da, Ward 3, Da Lat from 9-10 am on 4/5. – Ve Chai Pagoda in Trai Mat, Da Lat from 11am to 12pm on 4/5. – Lam Vien Square afternoon 4/5. – Thien Moc Trinh Coffee Dong Da, Ward 3, Da Lat from 17-17:30 on 4/5. – Grilled pan 27, No. 3 Pham Ngu Lao, Da Lat from 18h30 to 20h on 4/5. – L’ang Farm, Roundabout of Da Lat market, Nguyen Thi Minh Khai street from 20-22h on 4/5. – Cam Hanh specialty shop, Dalat market roundabout from 20h30 to 21h on 4/5. – Minh Van specialty shop, counter 271 Da Lat night market from 20-22h on 4/5. – Fruit barn 01, 71 February 3rd Street, Ward 1, Da Lat, from 7-8h on 5/5. – Fruit barn 02, Nguyen Van Cu Street, Ward 4, Da Lat from 7-8am on 5/5.

But these days, traffic is sparse, with only occasional trucks or motorbikes passing by. The once noisy atmosphere no longer appeared. Unpleasant silence crept across India as the COVID-19 crisis erupted, partly due to local closures of factories, and partly because many people here fear infection. Contrary to that quiet, fighting activities are increasingly explosive: ambulances race to the next patient, ordinary people frantically criss-crossing the city in search of medicine, oxygen, and beds sick. After a year of relative calm, the country of nearly 1.4 billion people is grappling with a powerful last-minute storm. With the number of new cases still exceeding 300,000 per day, India regularly accounts for around 50% of all new cases worldwide. Vijayawada International Airport was bustling with only a handful of passengers, and flights were also few. (Photo: ST) Problems from tests At the end of April, in the corner of the Artemis hospital compound in Gurgaon, a man repeatedly fell and had to be helped by those around him as he stood in line waiting for an RT-PCR test. The man was seated in a chair but collapsed. He was brought to the front of the queue but was too weak to last long. As hospital staff led the man toward the main building, he resisted, pointing to an elderly man sitting in the corner. Turns out this person came here not to do an RT-PCR test for himself but for his father. Meanwhile, at the front, the doctor in charge, overwhelmed by the number of samples to be taken, shouted at a patient for breaking in. Most people in line will wait at least two hours to be checked in. And it takes at least 48 hours to get results. Crowds of testing people create congestion at facilities. (Photo: ST) Unlike the first wave that affected the elderly, the second wave made many young people sick. Middle-aged parents have to bring children with coughs and fevers to testing centers. Prolonged delays have unfortunate consequences. Without quick and reliable test results, people won’t be able to get the care they need and could end up passing the virus on to many others. Mr. Claudien Jacob understood the situation all too well. He lost his 71-year-old mother on April 29 at home in Bangalore, when she was bedridden. She was hot with fever and her oxygen saturation level gradually decreased. By the time they were able to have a lab technician come to their home to collect an RT-PCR sample, other household members had also developed typical symptoms of COVID-19. But without the test, she wouldn’t have a hospital bed. On April 29, at 7 a.m., she took her last breath. At 7:30 a.m., Mr. Jacob’s phone beeped with her test result: positive. He has yet to receive his test results. “I’m dead tired, but no one else is doing this, so I went to the cemetery. I still haven’t had time to feel that my mother is dead.” A grieving family sends off a loved one who died of COVID-19 while keeping their distance. (Photo: ST) In March 2020, during the first pandemic outbreak, India instituted a strict 21-day lockdown. While bad for the economy, this also helps expand infrastructure from hospital beds to testing facilities. The number of tests has been increased from less than 100 to more than 1.4 million per day. The number of labs doing testing has also increased from 14 at the beginning of last year to more than 2,400 this year. But that’s still not enough. Survival battle Now, it’s common for Indians to see people rushing to find the basic necessities that were always assumed hospitals would have. Never before have citizens had to hunt for oxygen as often as they do now. Looking out the window, it’s not difficult to see someone rushing with an oxygen tank on the car to bring to the patient. Hospitalization – is a matter of will, wealth, relationships and of course luck. Indians now joke that before the pandemic, people panicked when a loved one was taken to the hospital’s intensive care unit, but now they’re happy. The journey to getting a bed is like a competitive sport. Common scene on Indian streets. (Photo: ST) Survival is not easy either. People safe from COVID-19 and their families talk about loneliness and stress. Families are not allowed to see patients in COVID-19 wards or intensive care units. In absolute isolation, all one could hear was the single, heavy breathing. But anyway, they are still considered “lucky” people. Coping with trauma Outside the Old Seemapuri crematorium in Delhi, Jitender Singh Shunty, founder of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Sewa Dal – a non-profit organization – drinks his first tea at 2pm. He said he felt like fainting and had to rest despite having very little time. Mr. Shunty helped cremate unclaimed bodies and dispose of the ashes in the Hindu tradition, receiving many calls. “Yes, we will come and prepare for the funeral. Don’t worry”, he told a desperate person on the phone. He received more than 400 calls a day, and lived in the car for days. He has a fleet of 18 ambulances and has lost one driver, Arif Khan, to the pandemic. These two were rejected by 4 hospitals in one day. (Photo: ST) Ordinary men and women have become superheroes during the pandemic. A driver in Bhopal sells his wife’s jewelry to convert the car into a makeshift ambulance. Another person in Mumbai sells his SUV for 2.2 million rupees to buy oxygen tanks for everyone. In Kerala, an elderly man donated almost all of his savings of Rs 200,000 to COVID-19 relief efforts. A nursing mother in Bangalore donates breast milk to a premature baby whose mother has died from the epidemic. And it is these moments that are a temporary respite from the horror that is unfolding. A nurse cares for a child who has recently recovered from COVID-19. (Photo: ST)

Covid-19 patients are being treated at Bach Mai Hospital, facility 2 (Ha Nam province) As follows: From April 24 to April 29, this patient went to school in Binh Xuyen district (Vinh Phuc) then went to Quang Ninh province to travel. On April 30, the patient and 4 people including Dr. The class departs from Vinh Phuc to Ha Long city by private car, the car goes straight without stopping across the road. After arriving in Ha Long City, the patient and a group of people accompanied him for lunch at a Hong Kong restaurant (No. 11, Bai Chay ward) and his contact was unknown. After eating, everyone went back to stay at the Cong Doan Hotel (ward). Bai Chay) and Uncle S. did check-in procedures, had contact with 2 receptionists. In the afternoon of the same day, the patient, his uncle and a group of friends took the cruise ship Huyen Long 6 to the island, at this time there were about 40 people on the ship. After visiting the island, in the evening of the same day the ship docked, the group returned to the hotel to eat at a Hong Kong restaurant. In the evening of the same day, he went to the food market and played darts and threw balls. On May 1, the patient and his uncle and friends ate at the hotel in the morning. From 9am to 10:30am, the whole group goes to Sun World, there are about 200 people on the cable car. After that, go back to your hotel room and have lunch at a Hong Kong restaurant. In the afternoon, the group of 4 friends went to play Sun Word again, this time Uncle S. went to drink tea at Vuon Dao slope, had contact with the owner and had dinner at a Hong Kong restaurant. By May 2, the whole group Breakfast at the hotel and check out procedures to Vinh Phuc. When checking out, Uncle S. had contact with the front desk and on the way back to Vinh Phuc the car didn’t stop, until 12 noon, the patient, along with his uncle and group of friends, returned home. The Ha Long City Steering Committee for Epidemic Prevention and Control requires those who come into contact with and go to the above locations to urgently declare their health and inform the nearest government and health station to take measures to prevent the epidemic. According to the Quang Ninh Department of Health, after 2 days of isolation treatment at Hospital No. 2, the PTH patient, residing in Cao Xanh ward (Ha Long City) had the first negative test result for SARS-CoV- 2.

Users only take 10 seconds to breathe into the machine and less than 2 minutes later have COVID-19 results. Photo: Straits Times According to the Singapore Straits Times, the device will ensure the safety of movement and inspection at large-scale events. Previously, local health technology company Silver Factory worked with the National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID), Changi Airport and security company Certis to develop the device. Silver Factory’s ventilator, called TracieX, is proven to give results nearly as accurate as a PCR test, which takes only about 2 minutes. Compared with PCR test, the sensitivity rate of TracieX ventilator is above 95% and its specificity is above 99%. Device sensitivity is the ability to confirm which test samples are positive, while specificity is used to confirm a negative. The price for a test with this device is only 20 USD (about 460,000 VND). The device has been tested at NCID, Changi and Certis airport terminals with over 400 participants. During a test at Changi Airport last month, passengers were randomly selected and asked to voluntarily provide breathing samples. “Testing with a ventilator will be less invasive, effective and quick to give results. From there, creating favorable conditions for passengers to fly,” said Mr. Abert Lim – Vice President in charge of passenger experience of Changi Airport Group – said. Silver Factory Technology’s TracieX ventilator uses a sensor chip to identify molecular traces in the breath of patients with COVID-19. Medical staff take a breath sample and put it into the processing device to read the results. Photo: Straits Times Disposable breathing tubes with control features keep infectious material sealed, thus preventing direct contact of these materials with others, such as healthcare workers. The user will breathe into the device for 10 seconds. The device is then inserted into a portable reader for analysis and results. The process is completed in less than 2 minutes. Silver Factory is currently working with Enterprise Singapore under the Singapore Ministry of Trade and Industry with the ambition to bring this technology overseas.

As of 7am on May 11, related to the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases 2, there were 89 Covid-19 cases, of which 78 were at the hospital, 23 were Hanoians and 55 were at other hospitals. other province. Previously, as the new Han Newspaper reported, on the afternoon of May 9, the Ministry of Health announced the results of gene sequencing of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology on 8 samples of patients with Covid-19 in 3 provinces and cities. streets: Hanoi, Hung Yen and Thai Binh. As a result, all 8 samples belong to the Indian variant B1,617.2. Step 1: Visit https://www.bluezone.gov.vn or download directly at App Store or CH Play. Step 2: Once downloaded, the application will ask for permission to use Bluetooth to record contact with other Bluezone installed users. If Bluetooth is not open, drag the status bar and turn on Bluetooth; or go to Settings, select Bluetooth and turn it on. Step 3: Once the installation is done, click Scan Around. If someone near you less than 2m has used Bluezone, the application will automatically identify these users and put them in the contact list.

Previously, on May 10, the first 6 patients received radiation therapy during the day here. After radiation therapy is indicated, the patient is taken to the radiotherapy area for simulation. The simulation area is equipped with 2 16-slice CT machines, which can perform 3D, 3D simulation techniques with contrast and RPM breathing synchronization system for high-tech 4D radiotherapy (radiotherapy). modulated according to the patient’s breathing rate). The first patient underwent CT simulation before radiation therapy at facility 2, Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital. Photo: BVCC After simulation, the CT data is transferred to the radiotherapy planning room for optimal radiation therapy planning personalized for each patient. Once the radiotherapy plan is approved by the treating physician and engineer, the data is transferred to the radiation machine to prepare the patient for radiation therapy. According to the leader of Oncology Hospital, when the professional processes and equipment system operate stably, the hospital’s facility 2 rapidly increased to receive the number of patients to the radiation treatment area. With 6 accelerated radiotherapy systems, the serving capacity of the radiotherapy area at facility 2 can accommodate 240-400 radiotherapy sessions per day. This helps to completely solve the overload of radiation therapy at the main facility of Oncology Hospital (Binh Thanh District) for decades. According to the plan, from May 19, the main facility of Oncology Hospital will continue to bring outpatients of internal block to facility 2 for further treatment and chemotherapy during the day. With a design of 100 beds, the day chemotherapy facility 2 is capable of treating 300 patients per day, reducing the number of day chemotherapy sessions by 70-80% at the main facility. Also from this time, Oncology Hospital will start to schedule appointments for patients who are being monitored after finishing chemotherapy and radiotherapy at the main facility to switch to re-examination at facility 2. According to the threading route, patients from the provinces and Thu Duc city (accounting for about 80% of day treatment patients at the main facility) will be introduced and guided to facility 2 for treatment. Particularly, the main facility is for patients in the remaining districts of Ho Chi Minh City.

Previously, on February 24, more than 117,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine were first produced by the British AstraZeneca Company, and imported by the Vietnam Vaccine Joint Stock Company (VNVC) under the permission of the Ministry of Health. present in Vietnam. Next, on April 1, 811,200, the first Covid-19 vaccine dose of the Covax Facility program through UNICEF arrived in Vietnam. By the end of May 12, the whole country had 62 provinces and cities completed the vaccination of Covid-19 with 942,030 injections of Covid-19 vaccine of AstraZeneca for people who are health workers. are directly treating Covid-19 patients, medical staff perform tasks such as sampling, testing, tracing, members of Covid-19 community groups, steering committee for epidemic prevention all levels, police forces, the army according to the Resolution 21 / NQ-CP of the Government dated February 26, 2021. Step 1: Access to https://www.bluezone.gov.vn or directly download at App Store or Play Store. Step 2: Once downloaded, the app will ask for Bluetooth permission to record contact with other Bluezone installed users. If Bluetooth isn’t open, drag the status notification bar and turn on Bluetooth; Or go to Settings, select Bluetooth and turn it on. Step 3: After the installation is complete, click Scan Around. If someone near you less than 2m has used Bluezone, the application will automatically identify these users and put them on the contact list.

One of the first patients performed CT simulation before head and neck radiotherapy on the same day – Photo: BVCC Oncology Hospital 2 basis (Ho Chi Minh City) has just said that the first 6 patients have received radiation therapy for the day here. At this new hospital, all of them had a simulated CT and radiotherapy on the same day that the patient came for follow-up appointment, while at facility 1 (Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital), the patient was after CT for the simulation, it takes an average waiting time of 2 weeks for radiation therapy. Thus, the Radiation Therapy Area of ​​the Day 2 Baseline Oncology Hospital officially came into operation, starting a roadmap to deal with overcrowding of patients for decades at Primary Oncology Hospital 1. After the State Construction Inspection Department (Department of Inspection) approved in writing to allow the acceptance and commissioning of basements 1 and 2 of the Basement 2 Oncology Hospital, the Management Board attended. The investment project to build civil and industrial projects in Ho Chi Minh City has handed over to the Oncology Hospital all the facilities in basement 1 and basement 2, where the radiotherapy area of ​​the hospital will be deployed. With an area of ​​more than a thousand square meters, equipped with 2 simulation CT systems, 6 accelerated radiotherapy systems, 2 brachytherapy systems and 9 outpatient clinics, this is an integrated simulation, setting up area. treatment plan, external radiation therapy, brachytherapy and outpatient examination, forming a closed day treatment process of radiotherapy at Primary Cancer Hospital 2. After receiving an indication of radiation therapy from the treatment department, the patient was taken to the radiotherapy unit for a simulation. The simulation area is equipped with 2 16-slice CT machines, which can perform 3D, 3D simulation techniques with contrast, comes with RPM breathing synchronous system for high-tech 4D radiotherapy ( modulated radiation therapy according to the patient’s breathing rate). After the simulation, the CT data are transferred to the radiotherapy planning department to perform the positioning of the radiotherapy volumes and healthy organs, calculate the irradiation field parameters, dose, shielding, … treatment. to get an optimized personalized radiation treatment plan for each patient. When the radiotherapy plan is approved by the treating doctor and the engineer, the data is transferred to the radiotherapy machine to prepare the patient for radiotherapy. The daily plans will be checked and measured directly on the machine to ensure the quality of treatment (the actual dose delivered on the machine must be the same as the dose set in the software). If all are satisfactory, the patient will be treated on a radiograph. Primary Oncology Hospital 2 has put into operation 6 image-guided radiotherapy machines (IGRT) that can perform advanced techniques in current radiotherapy: Electron, 3D, IMRT, VMAT . In addition, the radiotherapy machine can perform SRS / SBRT (Hyper Arch) radiotherapy, breathing radiotherapy, control surface movement. Medical physicist working with radiotherapist in planning radiotherapy at Primary Cancer Hospital 2 Oncology Hospital’s Board of Directors said that when the specialized processes and the equipment systems are working stably, Primary Oncology Hospital 2 will rapidly increase the reception of the number of patients coming to the radiotherapy area. With 6 accelerated radiotherapy systems equipped, the service capacity of the radiotherapy area at facility 2 can meet 240-400 times of radiation therapy per day, capable of resolving the overload situation. Radiation therapy for Primary 1 Cancer Hospital for decades. According to the plan, from May 19, 2021, the Oncology Hospital will continue to bring outpatients of the internal group to the 2 primary Oncology Hospital for continued treatment and chemotherapy during the day. With a design of 100 chemotherapy beds a day, the 2nd Primary Oncology Hospital’s Day Chemotherapy area is capable of chemotherapy 300 patients per day, which will reduce 70 – 80% of the number of chemotherapy during the day. basis 1. In addition, from this time, Oncology Hospital will start appointing patients who are monitored after the end of chemotherapy, radiotherapy at facility 1 to be re-examined at Primary Cancer Hospital 2. According to the patient diversification roadmap to reduce the load for primary cancer hospital 1, patients from the provinces and cities of Thu Duc (accounting for about 80% of day treatment patients of Primary Cancer Hospital 1) will be Introduction and guidance on facility 2 for treatment, facility 1 will be for patients of the remaining districts of Ho Chi Minh City. When the inpatient treatment area of ​​Primary Cancer Hospital 2 is officially handed over, all the inpatients of Primary 1 Cancer Hospital will be transferred to the new facility.

At the cremation site, where the fire was only temporarily extinguished late at night, loved ones had to wait for hours to say goodbye. The cremation scene was photographed, filmed, even broadcast live on social networks. These images will be sent to relatives in quarantine across India. They even appear on entire world news and newspapers, bringing India’s tragedy to a global audience. Fire ceremony participants must wear masks and protective gear. Photo: The New York Times. From the rooftops, local residents took pictures of the fire to show the world why they had to wear masks even indoors. Smoke and a strong smell of death, enveloping narrow alleys all day, even crept through closed windows, according to The New York Times. The cremation flame is a testament to the devastation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic on India. Exhausted from cremation The Covid-19 virus spread too quickly in India. The country continuously records more than 400,000 new cases every day. Nowhere in the country is beyond the devastating “tsunami”. Every day about 300 official deaths are recorded in New Delhi. However, this number is not believed to reflect the reality. “Before the pandemic, I received six to eight bodies a day,” said Jitender Singh Shunty, founder of a volunteer cremation organization Seemapuri, east of New Delhi. Now, every day I have to hold a cremation ceremony for about 100 bodies. Through his organization Shaheed Bhagat Singh Sewa Dal, Mr. Shunty has provided free or low-cost cremation services to the poor for 25 years. As demand skyrocketed, Mr. Shunty’s full-time workforce encountered numerous difficulties. They had to build dozens of new crematoriums in the adjacent field. Mr. Shunty’s cremation center received 100 bodies a day. Photo: The New York Times. Mr. Shunty’s daily job is to help move bodies and arrange the location of his cremation. During a pandemic, he had to change his protective shirt, mask and gloves dozens of times a day. At night, he slept in his car because his wife and two sons had Covid-19. Crematorial staff are receiving special care in the hospital. “Our team is about 16 people. We are working day and night, ”he said. “It is only 8 am, but I have received 22 phone calls to confirm the body.” According to Hindu tradition, cremation is a frequently used method. They believe that cremation disrupts the association of the soul with the physical body. The eldest son will lead the funeral delegation and relatives will carry the body onto the funeral pyre. A Hindu monk, also known as pandit, will recite his last prayers before the fire is lit. The ash of the deceased will be scattered in the Ganges or another sacred river. Mourners will gather at the deceased person’s home to commemorate and conduct prayer rituals. Families usually collect the ash immediately to avoid confusion. Unclaimed ashes, Mr. Shunty said, are held for up to two months, after which they are scattered into the Ganges River. Separate birth and death In addition, the pandemic also deprives the deceased’s final rites and deprives relatives of their private space. Traditionally, relatives will gather to share the pain of loss. Now, the fear of infection keeps most loved ones away. Even many bodies were cremated with no one nearby. “My family members can’t even see those last moments,” said Mittain Panani, a 46-year-old businessman. Mr. Panani and his brother are the only two people who directly attended their father’s cremation in Mumbai. His mother is still hospitalized with Covid-19. “Even if you have money, power, influence, you can’t do anything in that moment. I feel really powerless, ”he said sadly. Relatives brought the body of Covid-19 patient to the cremation area. Photo: The New York Times. “Flames were rising from the funeral pyre, relatives wearing masks and protective clothing. The scene is like the end of the world, ”said Dimple Kharbanda, a film producer who returned to New Delhi to attend the cremation ceremony of his late father. She had to beg relatives, including aunts in the neighboring state, not to come to Delhi because of the risk of infection. “When someone in India dies, we get together and talk about them, their lives, their habits and the good things. However, at this point, we can’t even do that, ”said Poonam Sikri, Ms. Kharbanda’s biological aunt. “When I watched his cremation (Miss Kharbanda’s father) on the phone, it felt like I had lost a part of my body. I want to stroke his hair, rub his face and hug him one last time. But I can’t do it ”. For the families of Covid-19 victims, the cremation site is the final stop of a series of difficult trials. It ended a series of days dragging patients from hospital to hospital in search of a bed and struggling in line for oxygen. Last stop Before Darwan Singh’s body was taken to Seemapuri, his family did everything they could to save the 56-year-old breadwinner. His fever did not go away while the oxygen level in his blood dropped to a dangerously low level of 42%. For two days, his family could not find a hospital bed or an oxygen tank. His nephew, Kuldeep Rawat, said he was given oxygen for an hour before the hospital supplies ran out. The family brought Mr. Singh home at night. The next day, they had to wait another five hours in the parking lot of another hospital. Mr. Rawat said the family had to pay a bribe of about $ 70 to get a free bed in a public hospital. Unfortunately, Mr. Singh died overnight. According to Hindu tradition, cremation is believed to break the connection of the soul with the physical body. Photo: New York Times. With the Seemapuri cremation center overloaded, the hospital was unable to immediately hand over the body. On April 25, his body and five other people were taken to the cremation site. Mr. Rawat said he had to get in an ambulance to confirm his uncle’s identity. The family then took him inside the crematorium and had to wait 5 hours before it was his turn to bring his uncle to the pyre. Even the last stop also cost them a relatively large amount: 25 USD for the prayer meeting, 34 USD for wood, 14 USD for the pandit priest and 5 USD for the protective suit. Mr. Singh’s family could not even come to the funeral. Both his mother, wife, daughter and son were infected with Covid-19. Mr. Rawat feared that he would also be infected during the period of sending his uncle to the emergency room. “They have a hard time understanding what’s going on.” For the families living around the crematorium, the fire that burns all night and day is a constant reminder of Covid-19’s death that awaits them. In the Sunlight Colony, where shabby houses and flats lie with Seemapuri, smoke is so much that many people are forced to wear masks while indoors. Children are rinsed with hot water before going to bed and laundry is dried in the room. People living near cremators must wear masks even when indoors. Photo: The New York Times. Waseem Qureishi, a resident right next to the Seemapuri crematorium, said: “My kitchen is upstairs but I really can’t stand it inside. If the wind is headed towards my house, the situation is even worse. Anuj Bhansal, an ambulance driver who lives near the Ghazipur crematorium, also in eastern New Delhi, says he is very worried about his four children. He said every time the cremated body number reached 100 people, children in the neighborhood would run up a nearby garbage hill to see. “When the children watched the fire and smoke coming from the cremation site, they asked why it did not go out,” Mr Bhansal said sadly. “They have a hard time understanding what’s going on.” The chaplain’s account of the funeral for 150 Covid-19 patients before cremation Every day, Hindu cleric RamKaran Mishra performs a funeral for about 150 people who have died from Covid-19 at the Ghazipur crematory facility east of New Delhi, India.

The patient first had a simulated CT scan before receiving head and neck radiation According to Associate Professor-Dr. Tang Chi Thuong, Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health, right after the State Department of Construction Inspection (the Ministry of Construction) has issued a written approval to allow acceptance and commissioning of the basement. 1 and 2 basement of Oncology Hospital 2, Ho Chi Minh City Investment and Construction Project Management Unit of Ho Chi Minh City has handed over to the Oncology Hospital all the facilities in the basement. 1 and 2 basement, where will deploy the Radiation treatment area of ​​the hospital. The radiotherapy area of ​​the day covers an area of ​​more than 1,000 square meters, is equipped with 2 simulation CT systems, 6 accelerated radiotherapy systems, 2 brachytherapy systems and 9 outpatient clinics. This is an area that integrates simulation, treatment planning, external radiation therapy, brachytherapy and outpatient examination to form a closed day-to-day radiotherapy treatment at Primary Cancer Hospital 2. Accordingly, after the patient has prescribed radiation therapy from the treatment department, the patient is taken to the Radiotherapy Area to perform the simulation. The simulation area is equipped with 2 16-slice CT machines, which can perform 3D, 3D simulation techniques with contrast, comes with RPM breathing synchronous system for high-tech 4D radiotherapy ( modulated radiation therapy according to the patient’s breathing rate). After the simulation, the CT data are transferred to the Radiotherapy Planning Department to perform the positioning of radiotherapy volumes and healthy organs, calculate the irradiation field parameters, dose, shielding, … treatment. to get an optimized personalized radiation treatment plan for each patient. When the radiotherapy plan is approved by the treating doctor and the engineer, the data is transferred to the radiotherapy machine to prepare the patient for radiotherapy. The daily plans will be checked and measured directly on the machine to ensure the quality of treatment (the actual dose delivered on the machine must be the same as the dose set in the software). If all are satisfactory, the patient will be treated on a radiograph. At present, Baseline Oncology Hospital 2 has put into operation 6 image-guided radiotherapy machines (IGRT) that can perform advanced techniques in radiotherapy today: Electron, 3D, IMRT, VMAT. In addition, the radiotherapy machine can perform SRS / SBRT (Hyper Arch) radiotherapy, breathing radiotherapy, control surface movement. It is expected that, when the professional processes and the equipment systems are in stable operation, the 2nd Primary Oncology Hospital will rapidly increase the number of patients coming to the radiotherapy area. With 6 accelerated radiotherapy systems equipped, the service capacity of the radiotherapy area at facility 2 can meet 240-400 times of radiation therapy per day, capable of resolving the overload situation. radiation therapy for Primary 1 Oncology Hospital for decades. According to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health, on May 19, the Oncology Hospital will continue to bring outpatients of the internal block to the 2 primary Oncology Hospital to continue treatment and chemotherapy during the day. . With a design of 100 chemotherapy beds a day, the 2nd Primary Oncology Hospital’s Day Chemotherapy area is capable of chemotherapy 300 patients per day, which will reduce 70 – 80% of the number of chemotherapy during the day. basis 1. In addition, from this time, the Oncology Hospital will start appointing patients who are monitored after the end of chemotherapy, radiotherapy at facility 1 to be re-examined at the Primary Oncology Hospital. 2. When the inpatient treatment area of ​​the 2nd Primary Oncology Hospital is officially handed over, all the inpatients of the 1st Primary Oncology Hospital will be transferred to the new facility.

Yet, in remote rural states, health resources are even scarcer. Some places don’t even have any medical resources to deplete. People can only fight the epidemic on their own and look to their fate. 90 people died in the past month, 3 times the average annual death toll. Dinesh Makwana took his father to four hospitals in nearby towns but could not find a single hospital bed. Photo: CNN. “No medical center, no doctors, no nurses” Chogath is a farming community in western Gujarat state, with about 7,400 inhabitants, according to the last census of 2011. Earlier this week, Mr. Jeetu said CNN that there are about 500 to 600 people with Covid-19 in the village. Residents here have also reported a spike in death toll. There are almost no doctors or medical facilities in the village. Meanwhile, the nearest city is more than an hour’s drive from the village. Some neighboring towns have clinics, but these facilities are very small and run out of beds and other essential medical supplies. The sudden spike in the number of illnesses and deaths in the whole village seemed to rest on Mr. Jeetu’s shoulder. An experienced pharmacist, he is in charge of prescribing medicine and supplying oxygen to the patients in the village. “No one, no medical center, no doctors, no nurses. There aren’t any facilities in this village. So I decided to deal with Covid-19 in a way that I see fit, ”he said. In Chogath, the lack of medical resources forced the desperate villagers to travel to the surrounding towns in the hope of finding a hospital bed. Dinesh Makwana, a resident of Chogath, said he tried to get his father with Covid-19 to four different hospitals in the surrounding towns but was hopeless. There are no more vacancies. With no other choice, he brought his seriously ill father to the village. “We are shocked (because of the 2nd Covi-19 wave). The whole village was very shocked, everyone was scared, ”he said. He said many people in the village died of Covid-19 and said: “I am very scared. I am worried that my father will lose “. Pharmacist Jeetu is the only source of medical assistance in Chogath village, Gujarat. Photo: CNN. Mr. Jeetu did his best to be able to provide some medicines to the villagers, including his father Makwana, to help stabilize the patient’s condition. However, the troubles that hit Makwana’s family do not stop there. His sister and mother are also infected. When Makwana talks to CNN, His mother was breathing hard on the porch. “I take care of my family. If I die, my wife and children will be crushed. I am not afraid of death, but only care for my wife, ”said Makwana’s father, Mr. Jivraj. 90 funerals a month Mr. Girjashankar, a resident of Chogath, despite being 70 years old, still helps families in the village to cremate their deceased loved ones. Day by day, he went to the forest or the field to cut wood, filled them with a tractor and then transported to the village, preparing to cremate the deceased. Normally, about 30 people die each year in the village. But within the past month, they cremated about 90 bodies, according to Mr. Girjashankar. Some families, he said, lost several people immediately because of the virus. Mr. Girjashankar, a cremation assistant, said that only a month ago, the village had 90 deaths, 3 times higher than the average annual death rate. Photo: CNN. The government tried to respond to the Covid-19 crisis in the country. They send oxygen supplies to various states and distribute aid from abroad. However, with the huge demand, the supplies do not seem to be distributed across the country. This means that the vast majority of health resources will go to the most densely affected and populous states. Therefore, small villages like Chogath have to survive this deadly epidemic on their own. “The village received no relief from the government. No doctors. There aren’t any government employees. The needed cannot come, and the person who needs to go (the hospital) cannot go ”, Mr. Girjashankar said. Pharmacist Jeetu said he was “very angry” because the people here are not being supported. “What can I do by myself,” he said. We don’t have any solutions, the people here are very poor ”. “All the people in the village are scared. 15, 20 days now, no one dares to step out of the house. Everyone is afraid, ”Makwana said. India uses the temple as a care center for patients Covid-19 Volunteers in the city of Ahmedabad, in western India, converted a temple into a Covid-19 patient care center, comprising a total of 50 beds.

With the record-high new Covid-19 cases, a nation of 1.3 billion people needs huge amounts of medical oxygen every day to cater to the treatment of its patients. This has caused a boom in the black market oxygen trade, where only the very rich can afford it, and families desperately looking for oxygen for loved ones with Covid-19 are susceptible to scams. “On the black market, an oxygen tank, which costs between $ 81 and $ 135 depending on size, is currently being pushed up to $ 812 to $ 1,354. This condition is an indirect cause of the death of patients who have no relationship or money, ”said Divyansh Pandey (25 years old) volunteer in the state of Uttar Pradesh, said. Medical oxygen in India has become an expensive commodity due to the soaring cases of Covid-19. Photo: Getty. The average price of a medical oxygen on the black market, about $ 1,080, is higher than the average monthly income of 1% of the country’s richest people. Conventional drugs, which cost $ 67, are now pushed up to $ 810. Pandey has helped dozens of Covid-19 patients find hospital beds, medical oxygen, oxygen generators and essential medicines. Pandey said he was forced to consider the supply from the black market after repeatedly failing to find and buy the items at the original prices. “The saddest thing is that the black market is openly open and hoarders casually sell it on social media. Non-governmental organizations and official sources often distribute these items for free or sell at original prices, but in small quantities and often out of stock quickly, sometimes within an hour. ” Crisis India currently records more than 20 million cases of SARS-CoV-2, more than 220,000 deaths. Experts say the reason for this dire number is the lack of beds and medicine. “When demand is too much and supply is insufficient, we are forced to sell imported oxygen generators for 10 times the price,” said an anonymous supplier at the Delhi black market. According to data submitted by the Indian government to the Supreme Court, the country has three times more medical oxygen than it needs in 12 states, with about 16,000 tons of liquid oxygen to meet the estimated demand of 4,880. tons last week. However, activists point out that the system only monitors hospital resources, not those needed by Covid-19 patients in home isolation. Although Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that oxygen production has increased 60% to address the crisis, volunteers and suppliers pointed out that problems such as transportation and logistics could hinder the arrival of oxygen cylinders. people’s hands. The price of medical oxygen in the black market has been pushed up many times because of the high demand. Photo: AFP. The lack of oxygen has even made many Indians recklessly experiment with making oxygen at home. At the end of April, many YouTubers posted videos showing people how to make oxygen using easy-to-find sources, available at home. Many of these are new high school students. “We created oxygen in the lab before using electrolysis and easy-to-find chemicals like potassium permanganate and hydrogen peroxide,” said Kirtharth Tiwari (16), whose video received more than 50,000 views. . Then, Tiwari also made the next video instructing people how to filter oxygen to use, avoiding the risk of an exothermic reaction by using a cold storage bag. “Two people reached out and said that following my instructions worked,” said Rahul Soni, another YouTuber with more than 300,000 video views. However, experts warn against doing such experiments at home because it can lead to dangerous explosions. YouTube has removed both videos for violation of community guidelines. Last week, the Delhi High Court ordered the state government to cut back to stop the proliferation of a “black oxygen” market. However, the situation is still developing complicatedly.

Shopping malls will be allowed to open from 11am to 9pm, while convenience stores across the capital will be closed from 10pm to 5pm the next day. The barber shop can only provide trimming and washing services. In addition, gatherings of 20 or more people will be prohibited. The capital Bangkok is at the center of the third Covid-19 outbreak in Thailand and one of 18 localities listed by the government as “red zones”, where the opening hours of certain facilities is limited. Thailand on April 24 at the same time recorded the highest number of new Covid-19 cases and the number of people dying from this pandemic on a daily basis. The Government of Thailand’s Covid-19 Situation Center (CCSA) on April 24 confirmed an additional 2,839 new cases, of which only 12 were imported, bringing the total number of cases in the country. now to 53,022 cases. The CCSA also confirmed eight more patients died of Covid-19, bringing the total number of people who did not survive the epidemic to 129 cases. Of the new infections recorded on April 24, the capital Bangkok accounted for the largest number with 1,582 cases, followed by Chiang Mai (151 cases), Chon Buri (119 cases), Nonthaburi (96 cases), and Samut. Prakan (84 cases), Pathum Thani (59 cases), Samut Sakhon (57 cases), Surat Thani (46 cases), Nakhon Sawan (38 cases) and Songkhla (34 cases). According to CCSA statistics, since April 1, Thailand has recorded a total of 27,000 Covid-19 cases, of which 56% are in Bangkok. The number of people killed from this pandemic nationwide since the beginning of the month has reached 43 cases.

For many consecutive days, the world media has been flooded with heartbreaking information and images from today’s most devastating pandemic hotspot. Many patients in India die while waiting for their beds, oxygen supplies depleted in hospitals leading to tragic deaths beyond imagination. “India experienced its worst day because of Covid-19” became the headline used by many newspapers day in and day out. Photo: Reuters. After surpassing the US daily record for the first time on April 22, with 315,000 new cases, India has continuously set new records in the past few days. Photo: Reuters. India is suffering from the darkest chapter of the pandemic. Bodies were piled up in crematoria. Many cremation facilities operate non-stop, staff here say they get almost no rest. Photo: Reuters. In Hinduism, cremation is traditionally the most important part of funeral rites as these religious believers believe that the body must be cremated in order for the soul to transcend. Photo: Reuters. On April 29, the country recorded 379,257 new cases of Covid-19 and 3,645 people died from the pandemic. To date, the number of Covid-19 cases in India has reached 18.38 million, of which 204,832 died, according to the Ministry of Health of India. In the capital New Delhi, 27 temporary crematoriums were built at the Sarai Kale Khan crematorium. Dozens of other rigs are being added in a nearby park. Officials are also looking for more space near the city’s Yamuna River, according to the Guardian. Trees in the park were cut down to make a pyre. Photo: Reuters. Experts fear the actual number of cases in India could be up to 30 times higher, which is more than half a billion cases, according to CNN. The country’s daily death toll is expected to continue to rise through mid-May, according to predictive models from the University of Washington Medical Metrology and Evaluation Institute in the United States. The death toll could reach more than 13,000 a day, more than four times the current daily death toll, according to projections. Photo: Reuters. Jitender Singh Shanty is doing more than 100 cremations a day at a crematory in east New Delhi. “If more bodies are received, we will cremate the streets. There are no more vacancies here, ”said Shanty. Photo: Reuters. An employee in protective clothing is digging a grave to bury the victim of Covid-19’s death in Gauhati, India. Photo: AP. In city cemeteries such as New Delhi, which records the highest number of illnesses each day, ambulances line up waiting for the body to be cremated. The burial place was slowly shrinking in the cities, the flames burning through the night. Photo: Getty. India’s “fall” is believed to have stemmed from many causes such as lack of preparation, neglect of epidemic prevention, lack of medical equipment, and a rapidly spreading new strain. Photo: Reuters. “No New Delhi has ever seen such a scene. The bodies of 5-year-old children, 15-year-olds, and 25-year-old youth were burned. Even newlyweds are the same. It’s heartbreaking, ”Jitender Singh Shunty, a nonprofit medical provider, told Reuters. In the photo is a mass cremation of the victims of Covid-19 death that took place at a site in New Delhi, India on April 22. Photo: Reuters. Crowds of people also play a huge role in the spread of the virus in India. Blockade and quarantine restrictions are believed to have been lifted too soon in the world’s second most populous country. Residents are allowed to organize major parades. Hindu festivals attract tens of millions of pilgrims. These people often gather in cramped locations without protection. Pictured is the scene of Indians dancing during the Holi Spring Festival in Prayagraj city, Uttar Pradesh state on March 29. Photo: AP. Millions of voters still vote in the final stages of elections in West Bengal state, despite the record-rising deaths and infections caused by Covid-19. In the photo is the scene of people waiting in line to vote at the polls on April 29. Photo: AFP. Countries have already begun to take measures to help India. The White House on April 28 said it would provide $ 100 million in aid to India, including 1,000 medical oxygen cylinders, 15 million N95 masks and one million Covid-19 rapid test kits. The US is lifting a ban on sending raw materials abroad, enabling India to produce more AstraZeneca vaccines. Photo: AP. The 105-year-old man ‘defeated’ Covid-19 in India Dhenu Umaji Chavan (105) and his wife (95) contracted Covid-19 in March. Both were discharged earlier this month after being treated at a hospital in Maharashtra state.

The body of the patient Covid-19 is piled up in a crematory in New Delhi, where every four minutes, someone dies from a pandemic. Someone brought the body and left it. At the Ghazipur village crematory in eastern New Delhi, bodies were brought, one after the other. The amount of bodies was so great that ambulances and trucks transporting the dead blocked an entire road, Guardian described on April 30. Before the pandemic happened, in Ghazipur crematory staff’s memory, there was only one time that it was filled with space in a day. But now, sometime early in the morning, this place has received 150 bodies, while the maximum capacity is 38 bodies. Crematorial staff have to expand the scope of operations to parking lots but also cannot meet all demand. In the Indian capital, the second wave of Covid-19 infections is still raging with no sign of slowing down. On April 30, Delhi recorded a record number of 395 deaths and 24,235 new infections. Across India, the total number of new infections during the day was unprecedentedly high with 386,693 cases. Someone brought the body and left it Cremators in India are rushing to increase their capacity to handle 1,000 cremations a day. It is at these cremations that the destruction of Covid-19 in Delhi is being most evident. In 30 years of helping cremate the dead, Sunil Kumar Sharma, head of the Ghazipur village crematorium, said she had never thought of such a scene. “Too many people died. I have a feeling if this situation continues, there will be no one in Delhi, ”Sharma said. Normally, the body of a Covid-19 patient must be handled according to a rigorous procedure. But according to Sharma, corpses from hospitals are often not covered with protective cloths, putting cremators at risk of exposure. Some families even try to hide the death of a loved one from Covid-19. “The situation here is terrible and terrible,” said Mr. Sharma. “We have to work 20 hours a day, very tiring. My spirit seemed to have broken at the surroundings. Now there are people who bring the body and leave it, so we have to perform the ceremony to save some face for the deceased. According to the Hindu and Sikh beliefs of the Indians, a person cannot enter the door of heaven if their body is cremated without the watcher’s presence and keeping the fire on the pyre. Every day, Sharma’s crematorium consumes 60 tons of wood. “Every night, I worry about how to dispose of the body delivered tomorrow,” Mr. Sharma said. “What if it is beyond our capabilities?”. Suffering covers everywhere With thousands of recently cremated bodies, the air around Ghazipur crematorium was thick black smoke. Scattered around the ash-gray crematoriums left the day before were some offerings: mangoes, pomegranates, and orange flowers. On a nearby ambulance, a woman in a dark green sari was mumbling her prayers. In the car with her was the body of her husband, who had just died that morning because of Covid-19. The widow tried to place a red handshake on her husband’s body but was gently pushed away by a man in a protective suit to transport the body. The air around Ghazipur crematorium was thick black smoke from thousands of recent cremations. Photo: Shutterstock. Another man, Ajay Gupta, cried bitterly while the body of his brother, Ram, was placed on the crematorium. Just last week, Ram received treatment from the hospital for breathing problems. Ram’s illness had been in remission at first. I can even video call you from the hospital bed. But when the hospital ran out of oxygen, Ram did not survive. “Just a few days ago the nurse told us he would be fine,” Gupta said. Gupta is also a victim of the emerging black market in Delhi. It sells oxygen and drugs like Remdesivir to desperate families like Gupta at exorbitant prices. According to Gupta, after listening to the doctor, he used the last coin to buy Remdesivir for his brother at the black market for 630,000 rupees (about 8,500 USD), 10 times higher than normal. However, the effectiveness of Remdesivir Covid-19 is still questionable. “I felt like everything had collapsed,” Gupta said. Relatives wearing medical protective clothing deliver the body of a patient recently lost from Covid-19 in the crematory village of Ghazipur, east of Delhi. Photo: Shutterstock. Krishnan Pal, 48, who sells snacks in Delhi, is also one of those who died after repeatedly being rejected by the hospital due to overload. Pal cousin Kai Charan Kashap said they knocked on the doors of every hospital in Delhi but were unable to find an empty bed. After that, Pal was transported by his family to Agra, a city in the adjacent state of Uttar Pradesh. The hospital here still has empty beds but there is no oxygen left. In the end, Pal died on his way to Bareilly, a city in the state of Uttar Pradesh. “People are dying in the middle of the street because they can’t breathe,” said Kashap in a choked sob while waiting for his brother’s body to be transported from the morgue. Vaccine is seen as the way out of the crisis Many believe that the vaccine is the only long-term way to help India get out of the corona virus crisis. But on April 30, authorities in some parts of Delhi said plans to vaccinate people aged 18 and over had been delayed indefinitely due to lack of supply. The announcement comes just a day before the expanded immunization program is scheduled to be rolled out in Indian courts. Shortages such as in the capital Delhi are also common across this South Asian country. An immunization center in Mumbai posted “no vaccinations for the next three days” on April 30. Photo: Reuters. Delhi Prime Minister Arvind Kejriwal said authorities would inject the vaccine “as soon as possible”. But some private clinics in Delhi said the vaccine is not expected to arrive for at least another month or even two. During that time, the crematory and cemetery in Delhi will continue to suffer the deadly pressure that engulfs the city every day. At the Ghazipur crematory, after sunset, all crematoriums will be lit up at the same time. Flames flared in the screams of heat and pain. Tomb diggers work non-stop in India Tomb diggers work 24 hours a day to bury those who have died from Covid-19. Their shift did not stop amid the second wave of Covid-19 in India.

By 2017, the hair loss and the dark spots were getting worse, so she went to the HCM City Dermatology Hospital for treatment. Patients with hair loss in the first half and many pigmentation marks on the face and neck Master, Doctor Tran Nguyen Anh Tu, Deputy Head of Department of Aesthetic Skin, Ho Chi Minh City Dermatology Hospital, said that the patient has a hair loss in the front half of the scalp, the eyebrows fall, the hairline is reversed Vertex. Many hyperpigmentation macules scattered across the face, neck, scalp … Through examination, doctors discovered that the patient had 2 diseases, both had fibrosis hair loss in the forehead, and had flat pigmentation. According to Dr. Anh Tu, the case of these 2 diseases is quite rare, usually at the age of 25-56 years, or appearing in people with darker skin. Most of the tanning appears before about 14 months, then to hair loss, on average 1 year progresses 0.6-1.1 cm. The cause of the disease is currently unknown but is related to sunlight, contact dermatitis … The treatment is still difficult, especially to restore the lost hair.