Việt Nam News

An apartment block in Vĩnh Phú Ward of Thuận An City in southern Bình Dương Province has been placed on lockdown since Saturday morning to trace the contacts of a new COVID-19 case living there.

The Ministry of Health has approved the use of COVID-19 vaccine AstraZeneca following the primary analysis of Phase III clinical trials from the UK, Brazil and South Africa, which confirmed that it is safe and effective at preventing COVID-19, with no severe cases and no hospitalisations, more than 22 days after the first dose, according to a press release from AstraZeneca Vietnam issued on February 4.

The southeastern province of Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu is taking urgent measures to prevent forest fires as the area enters the peak period of the dry season.

All close contacts with COVID-19 patients, designated F1, must be put in centralised quarantine, while people designated F2 should be quarantined at home under Ministry of Health (MoH) regulations, the health minister has said.

Dr Đỗ Ngọc Sơn, vice head of Emergency Department of Bạch Mai Hospital, talks with baotintuc.vn about his work to establish field hospitals in COVID-19 outbreak areas

With Tết (Lunar New Year) approaching together with the resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic, blood donations to the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT) have decreased.

Tết (Lunar New Year) is approaching and more than 60 households in Lượng Minh Commune of the central province of Nghệ An will be forced to spend the holiday in makeshift huts because two projects to resettle the people in proper houses lack capital.

Trần Như Dương, Deputy Director National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, who headed up the institute’s task force sent to Hải Dương Province – the current coronavirus epicentre in Việt Nam’s recent outbreaks – told the media that the highly transmissible variant of the virus demands utmost speed from health workers.

Twelve of the patients are in Hải Dương, three in Điện Biên, one in Hà Giang and one in Hà Nội.

COVID-19 figures

Minister of Health Nguyễn Thanh Long made the announcement at an online meeting yesterday morning with localities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Vietnam Vaccine Joint Stock Company (VNVC) has announced that it will import 30 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine from the UK in the first half of 2020.

In 2020, facing COVID-19, the Vietnamese economy has been suffering from severe aftershocks. However, in that context, we also witnessed resilience in maintaining jobs for employees, vigorous recovery and restructuring efforts of enterprises to overcome the crisis and work to repel the pandemic. Especially, many businesses showed their social responsibility and solidarity.

The rotation of senior State officials to key leadership positions at grassroots levels has proven effective in the northern province of Bắc Giang for years.

Chairman of Hà Nội People's Committee Chu Ngoc Anh has requested districts and agencies to implement drastic measures, including halting all festivals, to fight the spread of COVID-19.