Việt Nam News

Hoàng Công Minh, 28, comes from Đắk Lắk Province and first got involved in blood donation when he was a student at Tây Nguyên University.

The Ministry of Health has ordered preventive medicine units and facilities across the nation to strengthen hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) prevention in response to the increase in the number of cases in major cities across the nation.

HCM City plans to spend nearly VNĐ400 trillion (US$17.3 billion) on improving public transport and limiting the use of personal vehicles during the next decade.

Strict penalties will be imposed on leaders of localities and sectors which postpone disbursement and investment will be transferred from localities and sectors with slow disbursement to others which disburse investment faster.

No new COVID-19 cases recorded in Việt Nam on Thursday evening

Three more Vietnamese patients with COVID-19 have made a full recovery and were released from the treatment facility at the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases on Thursday morning.

Some 100 tourists have been admitted to Lê Lợi Hospital in the southern province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu’s Vũng Tàu City on Thursday morning with symptoms of food poisoning after a dinner party the day earlier.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) is arranging a special repatriation flight to bring 116 Vietnamese citizens from Equatorial Guinea who have all tested positive for COVID-19.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Health presented 200,000 medical face masks to Laos on Wednesday to support the country in combating COVID-19.

No cause of death has been announced.

Vietnamese authorities, representative agencies and national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines partnered with Japanese authorities to carry 350 Vietnamese citizens home on July 15.

The Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) province of Gia Lai will expand macadamia cultivation by growing the nut in coffee plantations and forests, according to its Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Almost VNĐ337 trillion (US$14.6 billion) has been loaned to more than 12 million households nationwide under the social policy credit programme over the past five years, helping improve local lives and reduce poverty, according to the Việt Nam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP).

Localities and all links in the tourism value chain need to join hands to boost domestic tourism, which is now a priority for the struggling industry’s recovery post-pandemic, tourism experts have said.

For many years, Ngô Thành Toại, 66, who has Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and dyslipidemia, regularly visited doctors once a month at Gò Vấp District Hospital in HCM City.

Eight male Russian experts entering Việt Nam on July 7 were confirmed as positive to SARS-CoV-2 on Wednesday evening, raising the country’s COVID-19 infections to 381.