Đà Nẵng will extend social distancing measures from Wednesday (August 12) after the first two-week period ended on August 11.

The HCM City Department of Health should continue to thoroughly check transmission sources and risks in the community, the chairman of the city People’s Committee, Nguyễn Thành Phong, said at a recent meeting with the Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

Hà Nội is striving to complete the implementation of RT-PCT testing, a real-time reserve transcription polymerase chain reaction, ahead of August 20 for 75,000 people who visited the central city of Đà Nẵng – a COVID-19 hotspot – and returned to Hà Nội from July 15, according to a leading official.

Doctors, nurses and more than 3,000 residents of the streets celebrated the re-opening of the hospital and the living quarters in the downtown area.

Eight doctors, five nurses and three laboratory technicians have been sent to hospitals in Đà Nẵng and neighbouring Quảng Nam Province in the last two weeks.

Vietnamese agencies, the Vietnamese Embassy in Russia and national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines coordinated with the Russian side to bring home more than 340 Vietnamese citizens on Monday.

HCM City’s education and training sector plans to embrace electronic payments at the kindergarten, primary, secondary and high school education levels by 2022.

Doctors said Trúc Nhi and Diệu Nhi are recovering well and will start physiotherapy in six weeks’ time.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Trà Vinh is encouraging farmers in coastal areas to expand high - tech shrimp breeding by using super - intensive farming since the model is sustainable and offers high profits, according to the province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.