Most children had mild symptoms and received doctors’ instructions for medication and care at home. Hospitalizations were rare, Hai said.
He said that the hospital had been seeing an increase in Covid-19 patient visits since the beginning of the month.
Meanwhile, Children’s Hospital No.1 has also been overcrowded over the past few days with children having Covid-19 symptoms.
Dr Du Tan Quy, head of the Infectious Diseases Department at the hospital, said they were giving medical examinations to more than 400 children with Covid-19 each day.
Quy said that the number of infected children had increased sharply over the past few days.
Last month, just 20-30 children with Covid-19 visited the hospital a week, he said.
The hospital has arranged four rooms to provide medical examination and treatment for children testing positive, but all of them are overloaded, he added.
He said that most infected patients had mild symptoms and were advised on care and treatment at home.
Six children with comorbidities are being treated at the hospital, Quy said.
The Municipal Children’s Hospital receives an average of 500-600 children having symptoms such as high fever, cough, and runny nose a day, with half of them testing positive for coronavirus.
