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Volume 28, Number 3—March 2022
Research

Retrospective Cohort Study of Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Tuberculosis Notifications, Vietnam, 2020

Tasnim HasanComments to Author , Viet Nhung Nguyen, Hoa Binh Nguyen, Thu Anh Nguyen, Hien T.T. Le, Cuong D. Pham, Nam Hoang, Phuong T.M. Nguyen, Justin Beardsley, Guy B. Marks, and Greg J. Fox
Author affiliations: The Woolcock Institute for Medical Research, Glebe, New South Wales, Australia (T. Hasan, T.A. Nguyen, H.T.T. Le, C.D. Pham, G.B. Marks, G.J. Fox); University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (T. Hasan, J. Beardsley, G.B. Marks, G.J. Fox); National Lung Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam (V.N. Nguyen, H.B. Nguyen, N.H. Do, P.T.M. Nguyen); University of New South Wales, Sydney (G.B. Marks)

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Table 1

Characteristics of persons with diagnosed tuberculosis, Vietnam, 2019 and 2020*

Characteristics 2019 2020
Total no. cases notified
 105,680
 96,998
Age group, y
<20 5,371 (5.1) 4,378 (4.5)
20–39 32,962 (31.2) 29,303 (30.2)
40–59 39,177 (37.1) 36,094 (37.2)
60–79 23,942 (22.7) 23,121 (23.8)
>80
 4,228 (4.0)
 4,102 (4.2)
Sex†
M 74,331 (70.3) 68,737 (70.9)
F
 30,248 (28.6)
 27,482 (28.3)
Region‡
North 26,352 (24.9) 23,862 (24.6)
Central 18,969 (18.0) 16,329 (16.8)
South
 59,256 (56.1)
 56,027 (57.8)
Registration group§
New diagnosis 96,445 (91.3) 89,048 (91.8)
Relapse 6,575 (6.2) 5,895 (6.1)
Retreatment 1941 (1.8) 1,812 (1.9)

*Values represent no. (%) except as indicated. Definitions for classification according to World Health Organization guidelines (https://www.who.int/tb/publications/definitions/en). †Sex was not reported for 1,101 (1.0%) cases in 2019 and 779 (0.8%) cases in 2020. ‡District and region were not reported for 1,103 (1.0%) cases in 2019 and 780 (0.8%) cases in 2020. §Registration group was not reported for 719 (0.7%) cases in 2019 and 243 (0.3%) cases in 2020.

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