Việt Nam News

Mê Linh District’s Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control imposed a lockdown on Hạ Lôi Village in Hà Nội’s Mê Linh Commune on Tuesday afternoon.

Illegal sand mining on the Đà River in the northern mountainous province of Sơn La has become more and more serious in recent years.

Four more patients with COVID-19 have recovered and been discharged from two treatment facilities in the south, lifting the country’s total number of recoveries to 126.

Hà Nam Province’s Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control has decided to quarantine 30 doctors and medical workers in Hà Nam General Hospital for contacting the 251st COVID-19 patient.

Strict protection and limited human contact, as well as constant patrols, have remained in place for the protection of a herd of gray-shanked douc langurs (pygathrix cinerea) – a critically endangered species – living in Đồng Cổ Village of Tam Mỹ Tây Commune.

The Central Paediatrics Hospital on Tuesday announced that for the first time, its doctors successfully used a bone marrow transplant to cure a two-year-old boy who suffers from Wiskott-Aldrick syndrome (WAS) – a rare disease that affects up to nine people in a million.

The People’s Committee of Từ Sơn Town, Bắc Ninh Province, has decided to suspend Phạm Quyết Tiến – chairman of the People’s Committee of Đông Ngàn Ward – for seven days.

Country Director of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Việt Nam Chang-Hee Lee has said that ILO Việt Nam stands ready to help the Vietnamese Government, employers and employees to find suitable jobs as the coronavirus takes its toll on the health and labour markets and the economy.

Hà Nội will earmark  VNĐ650 billion (US$28.2 million), the first stage, in support of the poor and other social beneficiaries via the local branch of Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP), amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The changing seasons' weather brings a high risk of disease outbreaks to the winter-spring rice crop in the northern provinces, said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyễn Xuân Cường on Tuesday.

Trần Quang Duy always wanted to do something to help poor and migrant labourers in his hometown in the central highland province of Kon Tum.

A group of residents living in the Ciputra apartment complex in Hà Nội have raised VNĐ1 billion (US$42,600) to help the fight against COVID-19.

Lê Ngọc Lâm, a doctor from Sa Đéc General Hospital in Đồng Tháp southern province has successfully created a robot to support care services for patients in quarantine.

Ngô Khắc Vũ, a teacher in central Quảng Ngãi Province, has a special way of spreading updated information on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic to those with limited internet access.

Raising New Zealand rabbits is providing a good income – about VNĐ200 million (US$8,600) net profit per year – to Nguyễn Công Định, living in the northern province of Tuyên Quang, as restaurants have a high demand for rabbit meat.

Financial assistance from the Government, organisations and sponsors is being given to many businesses and individuals affected by the COVID-19 outbreak.

More farmers in the southern province of Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu are earning more income by breeding Pacific oysters in an environmentally friendly and sustainable way. 

Two new COVID-19 patients were confirmed on Wednesday morning bringing the total number in Việt Nam to 251.