Vietnam: Guiding clinical symptoms of a COVID-19 patient

16:58, 27/03/2020

The Ministry of Health of Vietnam issued Decision No. 1344/QD-BYT promulgating the Guidance for diagnosis and treatment of acute respiratory syndrome caused by SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19).

Decision No. 1344/QD-BYT of the Ministry of Health of Vietnam guides clinical symptoms of a COVID-19 patient as follows:

Incubation period: 2 - 14; 5 – 7 days on average.

Common symptoms include fever, dry cough, fatigue and muscle pain. In some cases, there can be sore throat, stuffy nose, runny nose, headache, expectoration, vomiting and diarrhea.

Developments:

- Most patients only have mild fever, cough, fatigue, no pneumonia, and recover after about 1 week.

- About 14% of the confirmed cases are severe and have to be hospitalized with pneumonia or severe pneumonia; about 5% of patients have to be admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) with acute respiratory failure (rapid breathing, difficult breathing, cyanosis, etc.), acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), septic shock, failure of the kidney and heart muscles, which may lead to death.

- The average time from onset of symptom to severity is about 7 – 8 days.

- etc.

View more details at Decision No. 1344/QD-BYT of the Ministry of Health of Vietnam, effective from March 25, 2020.

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