An additional 2,060 people received the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on March 22, increasing the total to 36,082 people, the National Expanded Programme on Immunisation said on Tuesday morning.
Party General Secretary and State President Nguyễn Phú Trọng highlighted the important role of young people in national development while attending a ceremony marking the 90th founding anniversary (March 26) of the Hồ Chí Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU).
The steering committee for the national target programme on socio-economic development in ethnic and mountainous areas for 2021-2030 convened a meeting on Monday under the chair of Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình.
Việt Nam is expected to have the first batch of locally-produced COVID-19 vaccines at the end of the third quarter of 2021.
Around 8,000 COVID-19 frontline medical workers in HCM City will receive the AstraZeneca vaccine between March 22 and April 19.
Seven people died on Monday evening when their truck plunged down a slope and crashed at the side of the road on provincial highway 530 in Trí Nang Commune, Lang Chánh District in the north-central province of Thanh Hóa.
The sets were handed over by Naomi Kitahara, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Representative in Việt Nam.
The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Kiên Giang in recent years has seen a rise in production efficiency after it began rotating rice cultivation and shrimp breeding on the same fields and switching to other crops on unproductive rice fields.
After 10 years of implementation, the northern mountainous province of Cao Bằng has gained a number of achievements in its New Rural Development Programme.
Ethnic children in Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) Province of Gia Lai have significantly improved their Vietnamese language skills thanks to a new library system.
Inspectors from five inspection teams of the NEC found that all localities have taken full responsibility and carried out preparation works as guided, she said.
More than 215,000 people living in four inner districts of Hà Nội will be relocated under an urban planning project which aims to decrease population density and upgrade infrastructure.
Three new imported cases, one from Dubai, one from UAE and one crossing into Kien Giang province. 36 more people have recovered.
The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of An Giang will spend more than VNĐ30.5 billion (US$1.3 million) this year to implement projects under the National Target Programme on Sustainable Poverty Reduction.
The COVID-19 pandemic has badly affected production and business activities, especially start-up businesses set up by young people.