By Le Nga July 31, 2020 | 03:59 pm GMT+7 VNExpress
A 70-year-old Covid-19 patient with multiple comorbidities died on Friday, the first death of anyone who contracted the disease in Vietnam.
The Health Ministry said Friday afternoon that “Patient 428” had died of “myocardial infarction caused by chronic diseases of hypertension, heart failure, end-stage of chronic renal failure, complications of respiratory failure due to heart failure and Covid-19.”
The man was a resident of Hoi An Town near Da Nang City, the country’s outbreak epicenter with at least 79 cases, and had chronic renal failure, hypertension and heart failure.
