Việt Nam News

The HCM City People’s Committee has sought the Government’s permission to increase the fine for not wearing a mask in public amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Việt Nam reported no new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, keeping the total national number of patients at 268, the Ministry of Health confirmed on Friday evening.

The Ministry of Public Security has summoned officials of the Hà Nội Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to clarify the purchase of medical equipment, said chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyễn Đức Chung on Friday.

The Ministry of Transport has announced plans to transport passengers by road, rail, sea and air amid COVID-19 from now until April 30.

The southern province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu’s Border Guard Command and the provincial Department of Home Affairs transferred a sailor found adrift at sea to the Philippine Consulate General in HCM City on Thursday.

Twenty-one Vietnamese patients with COVID-19 have recovered and were discharged from three treatment facilities across the country on April 17.

Pín Tủng Hamlet and two healthcare facilities in Đồng Văn District in the northern mountainous province of Hà Giang have been placed under lockdown after a 16-year-old ethnic minority girl tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 on Thursday.

Police in Thái Bình Province on Thursday detained four officers related to the case of Nguyễn Xuân Đường, also known as Đường Nhuệ, who was arrested on April 9 for assault.

The People’s Committee of northern Vĩnh Phúc Province has decided to close a 300-bed makeshift hospital which was opened to accommodate quarantined people and treat COVID-19 patients.

Police in Huế City, Thừa Thiên-Huế Province, have arrested a woman for illegally transporting more than 70kg of explosives.

The guidance says COVID-19 patients need to improve their lung function, avoid a physical and mental decline and improve their motor capacity.

Enrolling in a vocational school was an easy decision for 23-year-old Trương Thế Diệu, even though he was under pressure to become an engineer.

Many provinces and cities, particularly those at high risk of a COVID-19 outbreak, will continue to keep schools closed, while others have not decided on a date to reopen schools.

Authorities have instructed farmers in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta to sow the summer – autumn rice crop on established schedules to mitigate the damage of drought, saltwater intrusion and disease.

Agricultural land accumulation for large-scale production has been facing many obstacles, although the Government has pushed up the process by implementing several policies.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyễn Xuân Cường wants countrywide improvements in developing plans to respond to natural disasters.

HCM City will continue to strengthen the fight against COVID-19 while also prioritising socio-economic development in the second quarter of the year, the secretary of the city Party Committee told a meeting on April 16.