Việt Nam News

Businesses involved in labour exports are at a standstill due to the complex developments of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Despite early, drastic measures to prevent COVID-19 from spreading, community transmission has occurred, Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam said on Wednesday.

As many as 9,000 poor and near-poor households in HCM City that have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic will receive monthly relief payments of VNĐ1 million (US$42) per household for three months, starting in April, according to the municipal Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

The National Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control made the announcement on Wednesday evening.

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Many disadvantaged people in HCM City are flocking to 204B Vườn Lài Street in Tân Phú District to get free rice from an automatic vending machine installed by a company.

The National Assembly Standing Committee held an extraordinary meeting on Wednesday to discuss the Government’s support measures for the people and businesses hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Vietnamese universities have devised flexible plans to ensure final-year students can graduate despite the extended school closure due to COVID-19.

As many as 61 companies have registered to invest in high-tech agriculture projects on an area of nearly 3,200ha in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province, according to the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. 

More than 72 tonnes of animal organs and tonnes of food additive and whitening substances have been discovered at a store in the northern province of Hải Dương.

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.