In Vietnam, British pilot Stephen Cameron making ‘miraculous recovery’ from coronavirus, reports say

Cameron was in a coma for two months and spent 47 days on life support but doctors have grown more optimistic about his prospects

Vietnam, which has yet to record a casualty from coronavirus, has spent about US$200,000 treating the pilot

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Vietnam has only 332 confirmed cases of coronavirus and has yet to record a casualty. Photo: Xinhua

Published: 6:30pm, 9 Jun 2020Updated: 6:30pm, 9 Jun 2020

A British pilot who has been in hospital in Vietnam since contracting the novel coronavirus in March has made an “miraculous recovery”, according to local media reports.

Stephen Cameron, 43, works for Vietnam Airlines and caught the virus at a bar in Ho Chi Minh City. He became the country’s most critically ill coronavirus patient and the government spent more than 5 billion dong (US$200,000) treating Graham. He spent 47 days on life support and at one point had just 10 per cent of his normal lung capacity after spending two months in a coma.

Doctors indicated he would need a lung transplant to survive but Graham’s condition has improved sufficiently that he can sit up, respond to doctors and move his legs.

“We could not believe the patient could recover so quickly, ” Luong Ngoc Khue, deputy head of the treatment sub-department in the country’s National Steering Committee for coronavirus, told Vietnam News.

“This is an extraordinary effort because we were pessimistic at times. The patient’s miraculous recovery was encouragement to the doctors for their tireless efforts and devotion.”

Vietnam has only 332 confirmed cases of coronavirus and has yet to record a casualty. It has been nearly two months since a domestically transmitted infection.

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