Việt Nam News

Trần Đắc Phu, senior advisor to the Việt Nam Public Health Emergency Operations Centre (PHEOC), talks to the Việt Nam Government Portal website about the correct deployment of COVID-19 antigen tests to avoid waste and incorrect outbreak assessments.

Vice director of the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases Nguyễn Trung Cấp spoke to Vietnam News Agency about risks faced by frontline workers who recovered from COVID-19.

Vũ Đức Đam, Deputy Prime Minister and Head of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control​​, spoke to the media about the current COVID-19 situation in the southern region, the country’s epicentre, after spending almost a month inspecting prevention and control efforts in the area.

Việt Nam has experienced several decades of war and the country is still suffering from this legacy. Dioxin, or Agent Orange, remains one such challenge that the Government of Việt Nam and its citizens are still grappling with today. As Việt Nam reaches sixty years since the chemical was first used in the war in the country, it is important we do not forget the victims of this tragedy.

Director of the Vietnam National University of Agriculture Nguyễn Thị Lan talks to Kinh tế & Đô thị (Economic & Urban Affairs) online newspaper about measures to boost the effectiveness of the national target programme to build new-style rural areas during the 2021-25 period.

Director of the Ministry of Health’s Department of Medical Examination and Treatment Lương Ngọc Khuê spoke to the press about the ministry’s recently issued master plan to improve emergency and critical care capacity of hospitals nationwide amid the complex developments of COVID-19.

Nguyễn Thu Anh, is an epidemiologist and country director of the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, the leader of the 5F team in Việt Nam, which includes doctors, epidemiologists, pharmacists, public health experts and social science experts working on providing science-based information on COVID-19. She spoke to Việt Nam News about the current pandemic situation and the team's recommendations.

At a recent online conference with provinces and cities to implement the dispatch of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat on the prevention and control of the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính came to the conclusion that new and stronger measures should be conducted in the new developments of the COVID-19 pandemic. Trần Đắc Phu, a senior advisor at the Public Health Emergency Operations Centre talks to the Government Portal about the issue.

I was surprised to receive a call from an American friend who lives in Singapore, asking about the pandemic situation in HCM City, Việt Nam’s current COVID-19 epicentre with a daily record of thousands of cases. 

While large manufacturers and big businesses adopt digital tools to facilitate marketing and distribution of their products amid the COVID-19 outbreak, a majority of small business owners and underemployed youth in rural areas use their smartphones for communication and entertainment rather than for business due to a lack of digital skills.

HCM City is the first locality in Việt Nam to pilot a new scheme allowing asymptomatic COVID-19 patients to quarantine at home. In a recent interview with the Việt Nam Government Portal, Doctor Trương Hữu Khanh, Head of HCM City’s Paediatrics Hospital No.1’s Infectious and Nervous Diseases Department shares about the scheme amid increasing cases in HCM City.

Amid soaring COVID-19 cases in Việt Nam as the fourth wave of infections have not showed any sign of let-up, people have been getting up in arms about a privileged few  with connections that seem to be shamelessly bragging about their exemptions from the rules that the mass has to follow.

By meeting in July, APEC Leaders break tradition to highlight the importance of coming together amid the crisis

Vice chairwoman of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Dương Thị Hồng, talks to Chính Phủ (Government) online about COVID-19 vaccinations.

Phạm Lê Phú, general director of of Việt Nam's National Power Transmission Corporation (EVNNPT), talks to Đấu Thầu (Bidding) newspaper about safe operation of power transmission system in the coming rainy and stormy season.

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phùng Đức Tiến spoke to Báo điện tử chính phủ (the online newspaper of the Government) about plans to amend a number of policies to put an end to the illegal, unreported, unregulated (IUU) fishing activities

Deputy Minister of Health, Nguyễn Trường Sơn, talks about revised health ministry guidelines on the mandatory quarantine period and details of a pilot home-quarantine scheme for people who come into direct contact with confirmed COVID-19 cases.