Twenty five out of 33 people in close contact with Hà Nội’s first COVID-19 patient have tested negative for the virus, according to the latest reports from the municipal Department of Health at an urgent meeting on Saturday morning.

Early Saturday morning, the whole area where the Việt Nam's 17th confirmed case of COVID-19 lives in Hà Nội's Ba Đình District is sterilised, following the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology's announcement of the case on Friday night.

Since Việt Nam reported its 17th COVID-19 case on Friday night in a woman who returned from a trip to Europe, fake news and rumours have spread like wildfire on social media. The young woman is the first person in Hà Nội to have been infected and has suffered vicious online abuse, with many commenters slandering her with easily debunked information.

Deputy Prime Minister and head of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control Vũ Đức Dam on March 6 ordered compulsory electronic health declarations for all passengers entering Việt Nam starting from 6:00am on March 7.

Nguyễn Văn Cử, Deputy Director of the Centre for Research and Capacity Development for People with Disabilities (HCM City) used to cry a lot because of discrimination.

According to the Global Gender Gap report 2018, which benchmarks 149 countries on their progress towards gender parity on a scale from 0 (disparity) to 1 (parity) across four thematic dimensions—the sub-indexes Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment.

Loudspeakers, text messages, public notices and elevator screens are being used in Hà Nội and other provinces to keep people updated about the prevention of COVID-19.

The heads of many universities in HCM City, especially medical and pharmacy, yesterday (February 6) sought the People’s Committee’s approval to reopen on March 16 after six weeks of closure due to COVID-19 epidemic.

A 27-year-old woman in Hà Nội tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 after returning from Europe, the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology confirmed on Friday night.