Việt Nam News

The Department of Natural Resources and Environment and the Department of Education and Training in HCM City on Thursday signed a cooperation agreement on environmental education and communications for the 2021-2025 period.

A total of 54 new cases of COVID-19, including one imported case and 53 community cases, were confirmed on Friday evening, according to the Ministry of Health.

A number of universities and hospitals in the country are focusing on research and integration of medicine in sports training and selecting athletes.

Early on Friday morning, health workers of the Congress’ health subcommittee started collecting nasal-throat swabs from all reporters and media staff, along with medical personnel and other workers working at the National Convention Centre to test for COVID-19.

Following an outbreak of new community COVID-19 cases in the north of the country, Hà Nội will test all people who have returned from Quảng Ninh Province and Chí Linh City, Hải Dương Province since January 14. The city expects to complete the testing by Monday, February 1.

In the early hours of Friday morning, authorities in the capital announced lockdown procedures for the entire T6 block, asking all residents to remain in their apartments until further notice.

Minister of Health Nguyễn Thành Long asked relevant units to establish three COVID-19 treatment hospitals in the northern province of Hải Dương, where 77 community infection cases with new highly contagious variant were confirmed over the past three days.

Facing more severe weather conditions like floods in the central region last October, the weather forecasting agencies have applied new technology to help predict and issue early warnings of typhoons five days before they make landfall and warning of tropical depression three days earlier.

Results from testing 10,682 motorbikes showed that more than 1,850 vehicles, accounting for 17.3 per cent of the total, did not meet the national emission criteria's level 1; while more than 2,410 vehicles, accounting for 22.6 per cent, failed to meet level 2.

Three Vietnamese companies have won a regional challenge to combat plastic waste in Hạ Long Bay.

The central province of Quảng Trị, the area most heavily contaminated by unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Việt Nam following the war with the US, is working to clear about 3,000ha of land each year to become the first Vietnamese locality to be safe from UXO accidents by 2025.

There have been nine more community infections of COVID-19 in Việt Nam – including one in Hà Nội.

HCM City has called for tighter measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 ahead of the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday after Việt Nam identified 82 new Covid-19 cases related to the two that were diagnosed on Thursday (Jan 28), the highest number recorded in a single day in the country. 

Eighty-four new locally transmitted cases have been detected, and now the Ministry of Health has released the details of locations visited by positive patients over the past 11 days.

Việt Nam has earned three awards in the latest round of the Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER), an international programme that funds scientists and engineers in developing countries who partner with US government-funded researchers to address global development challenges. 

Việt Nam should get ready to deal with up to 30,000 new community cases of COVID-19 in the worst-case scenario of the new outbreaks, but health authorities are striving to achieve containment within 10 days, a top official has said.