Việt Nam News

Airport authorities across Việt Nam have been told to take the ‘highest-level’ measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 during the Lunar New Year holiday, following nearly 30 new locally transmitted cases identified recently at Tân Sơn Nhất international airport in HCM City.

The Hà Nội Centre for Disease Control (CDC) on Monday morning announced four new community COVID-19 infections, including one woman who came into contact with a confirmed case nearly two weeks ago but withheld the information from contact tracers.

The new cases bring Viet Nam's caseload since the pandemic began to 2,001.

Tân Sơn Nhất international airport in HCM City continues to operate normally after one of the airport staff tested positive for the coronavirus yesterday (Feb 6), according to airport authorities. 

Last October, a serious landslide hit the area, burying their houses and killing a dozen of their family members and neighbours.

Ginger jam, a speciality of Mỹ Chánh craft village in central Quảng Trị Province, is a popular Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday treat and its popularity has helped improve the lives of local residents.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Cà Mau plans to maintain its shrimp farming area at 280,000ha between 2021 and 2025, with an increased output.

The southern province of Bình Dương has prohibited foreign experts from entering as it seeks to contain the spread of COVID-19.

Those who violate COVID-19 prevention rules could face up to 12 years behind bars, according to a new regulation issued by the Hà Nội’s authorities.

Director of the city’s health department Ngô Thị Kim Yến said the team will join the provincial medical forces in testing and tracking close COVID-19 patient contacts in the community as well as providing medical examinations and warnings about the virus.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Bạc Liêu will spend nearly VNĐ19.3 trillion (US$835 million) to build erosion-prevention projects in the 2021 - 30 period.

It has been a tough year for the global economy. Thanks to the all-out efforts made by its Government, Việt Nam is one of the few countries in the world whose GDP grew in 2020. This has also benefited foreign investors and entrepreneurs in the country.

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.