The Department of Water Resources Management under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has warned localities in the Cửu Long (Mekong Delta) to prepare plans to cope with saltwater intrusion.
Many factory workers are ready to return to work after the long Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday.
Việt Nam might inject its locally made COVID-19 vaccine among the high-risk frontline workers in the third phase of human trial in May this year.
HCM City is resuming the use of university dormitories as quarantine facilities along with 52 other quarantine areas, with a total of 4,500 beds in hospitals and districts, according to the city Department of Health.
Aviation staff in direct contact with passengers will have to wear transparent face shields and will be frequently tested for SARS-CoV-2.
The Lotus Medical Centre, which was set up under a co-operative arrangement between Việt Nam and Poland, has been licensed to conduct COVID-19 vaccinations in the European country.
Việt Nam’s health ministry reports 18 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, all in the epicentre Hải Dương Province, bringing the total caseload to 2,347.
Police in the southern Đồng Nai Province yesterday arrested one more suspect involving in the massive fake gasoline ring that had sold about 200 million litres of fake and substandard gasoline to the market.
18 new cases on Thursday evening
This is the first batch of Việt Nam’s order of 30 million doses of the vaccine bought directly from the manufacturer (with phased delivery throughout 2021), in addition to about 4.9 million doses that the country is receiving under the WHO-led COVAX initiative aimed at equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, especially for poor and developing countries.
