The status of dialysis patients in Asian countries under COVID-19 disaster as of December 2019–June 2022: Vietnam, Indonesia, and Mongolia

Abstract

On 1 December 2019, an outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) occurred in Wuhan, China, and quickly spread around the world. In an effort to prevent transmission, global traffic flows were affected and lectures by international speakers at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy were streamed over the internet. Speakers from Vietnam, Indonesia, and Mongolia reported on the status of COVID-19 infection in dialysis patients from December 2019 to June 2022. In addition, the situation in Japan is discussed in the introduction. In Japan, the mortality rate due to COVID-19 infection in dialysis patients was approximately 20% in a national statistical survey before the introduction of the vaccine, and decreased to 3.1% with the introduction of the vaccine. In Vietnam, the mortality rate was 42% in non-vaccinated recipients and 21% in two-dose recipients, but this was reported by a single center. Mortality among dialysis patients with COVID-19 infection in Indonesia was 57%, although reported by a single center. In Indonesia, 6 million people were infected with COVID-19, and the number of COVID-19 cases among dialysis patients was estimated to be around 52,200. Mongolia was considered to be the country that was able to move to vaccination while most effectively controlling the domestic spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 compared with many other countries.