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Many businesses have scaled down production and reduced their workforce due to the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to a decrease in the number of those participating in social and health insurance, as well as an increase in unpaid social insurance debts, experts have said.

The HCM City Department of Transport is urging the city People's Committee to approve investment for 55 urgent transport infrastructure projects next year, including new five overhead roads to ease traffic congestion at hotspots connecting eastern and western areas.

Lying on the bed of the Military Hospital 103 in Hà Nội with jaundiced skin, Nguyễn Thị Diệp, 25 years old, is waiting for her second liver transplant.

COVID-19 latest update

One more imported case of COVID-19 was reported on Tuesday evening, bringing the total number of patients in the country to 1,141, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

Authorities in central provinces have mobilised all available forces to help flood victims recover, while another storm has formed in the East Sea which is expected to bring more rain in the coming days.

More and more breast cancer cases in Việt Nam in the last few decades have been found among young women, many of whom still think they are safe from the disease due to their age, doctors said during a recent conference.

The Ministry of Health on October 19 provided 4.2 million of Aquatabs 67mg water purification tablets to health departments in the provinces of Hà Tĩnh, Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị, Thừa Thiên- Huế and Quảng Nam, and Đà Nẵng City.

The Việt Nam Red Cross Society (VNRC) provided its third emergency aid to three central provinces affected by floods, including Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị and Hà Tĩnh on October 19.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of An Giang on October 19 opened the Trà Sư Sluice to release floodwater into the Long Xuyên Quadrangle region to bring sediment into fields in the low-lying region.

A number of large buildings in Hà Nội and HCM City turned pink for 30 minutes on Monday night to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Local authorities and people in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta are taking measures to protect crops and residential areas from heavy rains and high tides.

A donation of 4,000 care packages has been made by Huda to support people in the flood-hit provinces of Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị, Thừa Thiên-Huế and Quảng Nam following a plea for assistance from the Việt Nam Fatherland Front Committee.

The HCM City Department of Tourism has released a list of another 15 hotels with 982 rooms that can be used to quarantine people coming from abroad, taking the total number to 23 hotels and 1,718 rooms.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked Hà Nội and HCM City to strictly follow regulations ensuring people wear facemasks in crowed places or while using public transport and that all the violations should be dealt with.

Local authorities in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta have begun taking measures to cope with the effects of saltwater intrusion and drought in the upcoming 2020-21 dry season.

The HCM City Department of Planning and Architecture has instructed the city’s Construction Planning Institute to work with the people's committees in all 24 districts to review parking lot plans included in the city’s master plan to 2025.