The Hoàn Mỹ Thủ Đức International General Hospital in HCM City’s Thủ Đức city on Monday began admitting COVID-19 patients after one week of preparation to share the burden with public hospitals and meet the increasing number of cases.

The working day has changed considerably for employees in all different fields. Many of us are working remotely to reduce the spread of COVID-19. But some factories need to have staff on site to ensure the production chain isn’t broken. That means extra safety checks and strict prevention measures.

Việt Nam received 1,188,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX Facility on Monday, bringing the total donations to the country to 8,681,300 doses.

Since the beginning of the pandemic earlier last year, several large-scale disinfectant spraying campaigns have been carried out – especially in severe outbreak-hit urban centres such as Hà Nội, HCM City or Hải Phòng – mostly done by the chemical units of the defence ministry.