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Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited and extended Tet greetings to medical staff and patients at Bach Mai Hospital and Viet Duc University Hospital in Hanoi while inspecting healthcare services during the holiday at these two leading central hospitals on February 16, or the last day of the Year of the Snake.

Nearly 400 children infected with COVID-19 treated at the field hospital No. 4 have been cured and discharged from the hospital, said Dr. Nguyen Tran Nam, Vice Head of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) Children's Hospital.

Ho Chi Minh City authorities said the city would cover expenses for funeral services for deceased COVID-19 patients in “the safest and most solemn manner”.

No. 1 Field Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City have discharged roughly 9,000 COVID-19 patients over the past month after they made a successful recovery from the virus.

Two COVID-19 patients in Hanoi and the northern province of Bac Ninh have died, according to the Treatment Subcommittee of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control on June 14, raising the number of deaths caused by the virus to 61.

Vietnamese doctors are treating 14 severely ill patients with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, including one at risk of mortality.

The number of COVID-19 cases has amounted to 212 after five more patients were confirmed as of 6am on April 1, according to the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology.

More than 280,000 people have received free HIV tests and 15,000 patients were newly enrolled for anti-retroviral treatment over the last five years.