Việt Nam News

 A Danish tourist who travelled across Việt Nam unaware she was carrying the SARS-COV-2 virus is among the latest positive cases announced by the Ministry of Health on Saturday.

An English Language high school teacher in the northern province of Phú Thọ has been employing the “borderless classroom model” to connect her students with their international peers via Skype.

Rice farmers in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta are earning higher incomes from selling rice straw left over from the harvested 2019 – 20 winter- spring rice crop.

Đà Nẵng City has overcome a lot of difficulties and challenges during the past years and would strive to become a socio-economic centre of the area and also of the nation.

Authorities in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Trà Vinh have encouraged farmers to restructure their crop cultivation to mitigate the impact of drought and saltwater intrusion. 

While thousands of overseas Vietnamese have returned home over the past few weeks, many others are still living in places abroad ravaged by COVID-19.

KOVA Paint Group has donated VNĐ2 billion (US$85,148) to the Government’s COVID-19 prevention and control fund.

The HCM City People’s Committee of has directed government departments and the administrations of all 24 districts to increase the public services available online to limit the number of people who have to visit government offices amid the Covid 19 outbreak.

Two of the country’s biggest cities, Hà Nội and HCM City, on Friday issued a number of recommendations on social distancing for its citizens to follow amid growing concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic, effective March 28 until at least April 15.

Việt Nam has confirmed 163 COVID-19 infection cases, of whom 20 have recovered and been discharged from hospitals as of Friday afternoon.

Four of the patients entered Việt Nam from March 21 to 23 and were isolated upon arrival, three are foreigners with infections linked to HCM City’s Buddha Bar and the other three contracted the deadly virus from the 133rd patient in Hà Nội’s Bạch Mai Hospital.

The move came after the hospital was considered as potentially posing a high risk of spreading the virus to the community.

The drug crime investigation police department announced on Thursday it had busted an illegal transnational drug trafficking ring, seizing 450kg of drugs of various types.

This is a critical time for Việt Nam in the fight against COVID-19. Thousands are fighting the pandemic. We can do it together!

HCM City has announced that it will temporarily suspend the granting of new work permits to foreign workers arriving from COVID-19-affected countries and territories.

In spite of challenges brought by saline intrusion and COVID-19, rice cultivation in the Mekong Delta localities must ensure domestic supply and take opportunities for export, said Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Lê Quốc Doanh on Friday.

Three COVID-19 patients – two British (numbers 22 and 23) and a local woman (number 35) – have been released from Đà Nẵng's general hospital after three weeks of treatment.

The Saigon Union of Trading Co-operatives (Saigon Co.op) has co-operated with other companies to provide more than 30,000 meals per day for quarantine areas fighting COVID-19, three times higher than previous days.