Việt Nam News

A 75-year-old man with a range of underlying health issues from HCM City has become Việt Nam’s 67th COVID-19 related death.

HCM City now has five out of its planned 17 trains for Metro Line No 1, after six carriages for two trains arrived yesterday from Japan.

Việt Nam will receive one million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines each week starting in July, the licensed importer for the vaccine in the country has announced.

The press will be a bridge to inspire and build trust for the people to understand the Government’s ideas, vision, strategies and actions, Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính has said.

The shipment of 500,000 doses of the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine along with 502,400 single-use syringes as aid from the Chinese Government arrived at Nội Bài International Airport in Hà Nội on Sunday afternoon.

Amid the COVID-19 crisis, employers want to keep their staff safe while coping with challenges to maintain normal and effective operations, said human resources experts and business leaders at a recent meeting.

The central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế has applied several measures to preserve and sustainably develop Huế’s traditional lotus farming.

Official land prices (called the coefficient or K coefficient) in HCM City will remain unchanged this year amid the rising cost of goods and challenges facing the economy, effective from June 18, according to Lê Hòa Bình, vice chairman of the city People’s Committee.

The amount of land for cemeteries in HCM City is shrinking and authorities have been asked to draw up plans for future needs.

The first mission abroad of Captain Nguyễn Trọng Chiến, an infectious disease doctor, was in the war-ravaged Republic of South Sudan. He left Việt Nam for the United Nations’ peacekeeping mission in April and has been busy with the treatment and COVID-19 prevention and control work.

Minister of Health Nguyễn Thanh Long speaks to Sức khoẻ đời sống (Life and Health) online newspaper about the national vaccination campaign to fight COVID-19

A total of 300 local COVID-19 cases were reported on Sunday in nine localities, the Ministry of Health announced.

The vaccine, with the product name Vero Cell, will be given to Chinese nationals living in Việt Nam, Vietnamese people who intend to go to work or study in China and residents in the border region with China.

Two more people have died of COVID-19 complications, taking the death toll in Việt Nam since the beginning of the pandemic to 66.