On the afternoon of August 29, Binh Duong Department of Health and Information recorded 1,590 patients have recovered and were discharged within the same day. This number of discharged patients concentrated in three treatment layers with a total of 1,389 patients. The facility that has collected samples and treated patients with the highest number of discharged patients is Facility 2, Field Hospital No. 1 (Thoi Hoa) with 375 patients discharged within a day.
From August 19 to August 29, the province had 40,916 recovering and discharged patients, accounting for 73.44% of the total number of recovering and discharged patients during the fourth epidemic. As of August 29, Binh Duong's tally of recovering and discharged patients was 55,701, accounting for 53.46% of the total number of infections in the fourth wave (104,208 cases).
On August 29, the whole province recorded 5,414 new cases, an increase of 1,365 cases compared with August 28, bringing the total number of cases of the fourth outbreak to 104,208 cases. Some localities having the highest cases per day are Thuan An city with 3,341 cases, Tan Uyen town with 854 cases, Di An city with 699 cases, Ben Cat town with 310 cases, Thu Dau Mot city with 169 cases.
Localities having less than 30 cases recorded were Bau Bang district 27 cases, the remaining localities having less than 10 cases recorded were North Tan Uyen district 2 cases, Dau Tieng district 1 case, Phu Giao district 1 case, and 10 cases recorded outside the province. During the day, blockaded areas were crowded with 4,562 cases, accounting for 84.3% of the total number of daily cases, mass testing accounted for 12% with a total of 648 cases.
Reported by Kim Ha - Translated by Ngoc Huynh
