VOV.VN - The hand-foot-and-mouth disease is showing signs of abating in Ho Chi Minh City, with 2,145 cases detected during the past week, according to a report released by the municipal Department of Health.
Districts with a high number of infections per 100,000 residents include Binh Tan, Tan Phu and Binh Chanh, the department said in its report.
Since the beginning of 2023, the city has logged as many as 20,116 hand-foot-and-mouth infections, without any fatality,
Currently, hospitals of Ho Chi Minh City are giving treatment to 330 cases, of whom 329 are children under 6.
According to the local health watchdog, the rate of increase in the number of infections is slowing down if compared to the figure recorded in the previous four weeks on average.
The local health sector is strengthening supervision of hand-foot-and-mouth disease prevention in the community, schools, and preschools, strengthening communication, and giving advice to the community on the prevention of the disease.
VOV.VN - The number of children suffering from hand-foot-mouth (HFM) disease at the start of the year has increased 5.2 times compared to the same period from last year, according to figures from the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE).
VOV.VN - Vietnam is currently seeing a spike in the number of hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) among children, with more than 40,000 cases and 16 deaths recorded so far.
VOV.VN - Enterovirus 71 (EV71), a virus which most commonly causes hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD), has once again been detected in Ho Chi Minh City, according to the municipal Department of Health on June 1.
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