Việt Nam News

The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in the Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ will begin conducting tests for SARS-CoV-2 after March 15.

The programme was launched by the Krông Búk District Social Activities Team. Their main activities include cooking meals, giving presents and repairing houses for poor, old and sick people in the district.

Since the outbreak of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the first thing Nguyễn Thị Mỹ Loan does every day at Mishow Ltd.Co in Tokyo is to wash her hands with sanitiser. This is a mandatory requirement for all employees at the company.

Hà Nội authorities discussed measures to develop the capital city’s economy in parallel with keeping the COVID-19 outbreak under control at a meeting on Thursday.

The acceleration of investment disbursement for transport infrastructure projects is extremely important as the economy has been heavily affected by the COVID-19 epidemic, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said at a meeting of the Government’s standing board in Hà Nội on Thursday.

As many as 4,279 drugstores are selling drugs that are included in HCM City's price-stabilisation programme for the 2019-2020 period, according to the city's Department of Health.

Five new cases of COVID-19 infections were reported on Thursday in the central coastal province of Bình Thuận, increasing the number of infected cases in Việt Nam to 44.

The central city has asked the Ministry of Health for permission to report new COVID-19 cases so it can respond more quickly to the pandemic.

The health sector has called on medical staff and the community to donate blood at the Lễ hội Xuân hồng (Red Spring) blood donation festival at the headquarters of the Ministry of Health in Hà Nội on Thursday.

Trần Thị Giáng Hương, Director of the Department of International Co-operation under the Ministry of Health was appointed the Director of the World Health Organisation’s Division of Programmes for Disease Control last year. She talks to Vietnamplus online newspaper about her new role at an international body.

Hà Nội Police on Wednesday warned of increasing phone scams in which scammers pretend to be policemen or post office staff to defraud people.

The HCM City Appeals Court on Tuesday (10 March 2020) upheld a December 2018 verdict by a city court ordering Singaporean ride-hailing Grab to pay compensation of VNĐ4.8 billion (US$207,000) to taxi firm Vinasun.

The Australian Government has announced help for Việt Nam to assess the contribution of technology to GDP growth via the Aus4Innovation programme.

Hà Nội People’s Committee has allocated VNĐ3.5 billion (US$150,600) from the city’s budget for COVID-19 tests.

Immigration officials at Nội Bài International Airport found no Italian immigration stamp in the passports of Viet Nam’s 17th COVID-19 patient, who allegedly did not report her travel to Italy – a high-risk area – so she could avoid concentrated quarantine.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc issued a directive on Wednesday, requesting stronger actions to prevent and control COVID-19 amid new developments of the outbreak.