Việt Nam News

Provinces and cities which have not recorded any cases of coronavirus will be able to reopen schools as long as they ensure hygienic conditions for students, according to the health ministry.

Scientists from the School of Biotechnology and Food Technology under Hà Nội University of Science and Technology have developed a novel coronavirus (nCoV) test kit which provides results in 70 minutes instead of four hours like the current method.

A total of 30 Vietnamese citizens have returned to the country from Wuhan – the epicentre of the coronavirus (nCoV) outbreak on a special flight in the early morning of February 10.

Growing vegetables under VietGap standards has brought high incomes to farmers from co-operatives in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Kiên Giang.

The Việt Nam Administration of Forestry has instructed province and city agriculture departments around the country to carefully monitor wildlife imports amid the public health emergency caused by the new strain of coronavirus.

HCM City authorities have identified urban infrastructure development as the key factor in meeting the city’s economic targets in 2020-25.

They were on flight OZ731 of Asian Airlines from Seoul in South Korea to Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport in HCM City last Tuesday.

A specialist field hospital has been set up in HCM City to deal with the outbreak of novel coronavirus.

Việt Nam has confirmed its 14th novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection case, in the “hotspot” of Vĩnh Phúc Province, the Ministry of Health announced on Sunday.

The Ministry of Health officially has launched a new website to share vital and accurate information over the coronavirus outbreak.

Amid concerns over the spread of novel coronavirus, the HCM City Department of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs has told a number of firms that 1,079 foreign workers who recently travelled to China and returned to HCM City to work after the Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday must be quarantined.

Hundreds of young people in HCM City are calling on their friends via social media and others to visit the Blood Transfusion Haematology Hospital and Humanitarian Blood Donation Centre to donate blood to address a shortage amid the ongoing public health emergency caused by the coronavirus.

Peach blossom growers of Nhật Tân, a famous peach blossom planting village in Hà Nội, often keep contact with those who hire or buy their trees to collect them after Tết and take care of the trees for the next season.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of An Giang plans to provide vocational training to 12,000 people living in rural areas this year and jobs for 80 per cent of them subsequently, according to its Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

The number of internet-borne cyberthreats in Việt Nam in the fourth quarter of 2019 decreased more than 50 per cent compared to the same period in 2018, according to Kaspersky Security Bulletin Q4 2019.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) noted that Việt Nam has been managing the outbreak of the acute respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus (nCoV) “very well”. 

Đỗ Văn Chiến, Chairman of the National Assembly Commission for Ethnic Minority speaks to Việt Nam National Assembly TV on new points in the National Assembly proposal regarding socio-economic development in areas inhabited by ethnic minorities

Deputy health minister Đỗ Xuân Tuyên on Friday warned the number of the coronavirus infections in Vĩnh Phúc Province – the biggest cluster detected in Việt Nam so far – was likely to increase in the coming days.