Starting Friday, Hà Nội health authorities plan to test nearly 50,000 people who returned from Đà Nẵng between July 15-29, Việt Nam’s COVID-19 epicentre, using the more accurate but time-consuming PCR tests.
The figure is far behind the ministry’s target of 50 million active Bluezone users.
On an area of 20 square metres in a narrow alley in HCM City’s District 12, there is a special classroom which gathers dozens of students who try to write letters and repeat the multiplication tables they learned the day before.
The movement that called upon every student to save VNĐ1,000 (US$4 cents) each day was launched by the school’s youth union to raise students’ awareness of saving money and encourage them to do kind things for others.
Vietnamese citizens quarantined after their repatriations flight back home have only three words to say: “Thank you soldiers.”
Since July 25, there have been 298 community infections linked to Đà Nẵng.
For some of the health workers at Đà Nẵng's emergency centre, fighting COVID-19 means staying at work and not seeing their families for weeks. But these “soldiers in white coats” are far from yielding to pressure.
Vietnamese authorities and representative offices in the US and Japan, Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet coordinated with relevant agencies of the two countries to conduct two flight bringing home nearly 350 Vietnamese citizens from US and 220 from Japan on August 5 and 6.
Dozens of new COVID-19 infection cases could be linked to three hospitals in Đà Nẵng City in the coming days, but experts have said the number of new cases does not reflect whether the pandemic is surging or on the decline.
Việt Nam confirmed 30 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday evening including a one-year-old and a 7-year-old girl.
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