Việt Nam News

Construction on a cable-stayed bridge that will connect Trung Lương-Mỹ Thuận and Mỹ Thuận-Cần Thơ expressways between HCM City and Cần Thơ began on Wednesday (August 19).

Northern provinces have seen heavy rains in the past few days, causing floods on the Thao River and inundation in Yên Bái Province, said the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.

The water quality monitoring assessment was carried out in May at 185 monitoring points in five river basins by the Centre for Environmental Monitoring in the North.

COVID-19 latest update

Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Việt Nam have topped the 1,000 mark as 14 new patients were reported on Thursday night, with two imported.

The Pasteur Institute in HCM City has helped Hospital 199 of the Ministry of Public Security and the Đà Nẵng C Hospital in Đà Nẵng City, the epicentre of the new outbreak, to set up two laboratories that conduct tests to detect SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

A 27-year-old patient tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 four days after being discharged from hospital, the HCM City Centre of Disease Control said on Thursday.

The central provincial Centre for Disease Control (CDC) has taken medical samples of 51 people who had close contact with a teacher in Phước Sơn district after he tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 for the first time on Wednesday morning.

A temple in Tây Hồ has been closed after thousands of people visited breaching social distancing regulations.

From Thursday afternoon, some areas of Cao Bằng, Bắc Kạn, Lạng Sơn, Hà Giang, Tuyên Quang and Thái Nguyên provinces and the northwest region are expected to see 100 to 200mm of rain accompanied by strong winds, lightning and whirlwinds.

More than 340 Vietnamese citizens have returned home safely from the US and been quarantined upon arrival.

The HCM City Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention in October will launch a campaign to provide a free 2-in-1 combination vaccine against tetanus and diphtheria to children born in 2013.

The number of unemployed youths in Việt Nam may double this year, while the employment prospects of 663 million young people in Asia and the Pacific face challenges as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.

The Ministry of Transport has approved a Đồng Nai Province proposal to widen the HCM City - Long Thành expressway to 10 lanes from its current four.

Nguyễn Đức Quân, a 12th grader in Hải Phòng City, is determined to make his dreams come true despite suffering from brittle bone disease (osteogenesis imperfecta).

The Vietnamese Government attaches great importance to international maritime co-operation, especially with experienced partners like the European Union and European countries, said Đinh Toàn Thắng, director general of the Europe Department, Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Currently, Hà Đông, Đống Đa, Hoàng Mai and Thanh Xuân districts are home to the highest number of untested people in the capital.