The Department of Health also informed that from 6:00 to 17:00 on August 13, 2021, the province recorded 2,276 new cases, bringing the total number of cases in the day to 2,816 (the Ministry of Health will announce in the evening news), down 7% compared to August 12, 2021.
Specifically, there were 125 cases detected in medical facilities (accounting for 4.4%), 851 cases in temporary quarantine areas (accounting for 30.2%), 1,706 cases in lockdown areas (accounting for 60.6 %), and 134 cases through community screening (accounting for 4.8%).
Number of cases from July 20, 2021 to August 13, 2021
Regarding the area, Di An 1,094 cases (up 174%), Thuan An 857 cases (up 45%), Tan Uyen 469 cases (down 68%), Ben Cat 180 cases (down 47%), Thu Dau Mot 137 cases (up 18%), Phu Giao 24 cases (down 59%), Bau Bang 22 cases (up 144%), Dau Tieng 15 cases (up 114%), Bac Tan Uyen 03 cases (down 70%), 15 cases outside the province (down 17%).
Distribution of daily cases by locality on August 13
Distribution of total number of cases by locality
During the day, the province also collected and treated 1,781 patients, up 61% compared to August 12, 2021; 25 patients died, down 40% compared to August 12, 2021.
Since the 4th pandemic wave, Binh Duong has recorded 39,592 Covid-19 cases; 8,626 patients discharged; 309 patients died.
Currently, the province is treating 11,618 patients, of which 2,420 are symptomatic, 543 have underlying diseases, and 636 turn severe.
The province is taking samples for the second large-scale testing (from August 02, 2021). As a result, localities took samples for rapid test and PCR for 257,002 people, had 8,054 positive cases; the results of PCR sampling for 71,191 workers at 53 companies in industrial parks, had 111 positive cases.
The province currently has 1,244 lockdown areas with 125,426 people; 19,929 people are in concentrated quarantine; 4,151 F1 cases are quarantined at home and 967 F0 cases are quarantined at home.
The province has administered all 544,060 doses of vaccine (from phase 1 to phase 16) allocated by the Ministry of Health. At the same time, the province has asked the Ministry of Health to continue allocating 1 million doses of the vaccine in the next phase to vaccinate the subjects.
On August 12, 2021, Binh Duong put into operation the Field hospital of emergency resuscitation located at Becamex International Hospital with a scale of 470 beds with full modern equipment for the treatment and cure of severe and critical patients.
Reported by Mai Xuan - Translated by Nguyen Trang