Việt Nam News

The City Power Corporation (EVNHCMC) has asked its customers to use online services and non-cash payments to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

The Ministry of Health last Sunday (March 8) told private hospitals in HCM City to screen any patient suspected of contracting COVID-19.

For the officers at border stations in the northern mountainous regions, aside from national defence and security duties, their mission is also to help improve the healthcare of the ethnic minority-dominated population And that means dissuading them from following superstitious practices.

The HCM City Department of Transport will begin on Tuesday (March 10) to monitor vehicles violating traffic rules via fixed camera systems at 14 roads in the city centre.

As the fight against COVID-19 in Việt Nam enters a new stage, the country needs to remain “calm”, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said at a Government meeting this morning, adding that “Việt Nam will beat COVID-19.”

Another passenger on the flight from London to Việt Nam that carried the country’s 17th COVID-19 patient has tested positive for the disease, making him the 31st patient in Việt Nam.

Twenty people on the same flight from London to Hà Nội (VN0054) with Việt Nam’s 17th COVID-19 patient who then travelled to HCM City have tested negative for SARS-CoV-2, according to the HCM City Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.

Children in ninth and twelfth grade in Hà Nội will be able to continue their lessons during the COVID-19 epidemic. 

Hà Nội’s Department of Health has requested all medical facilities to ensure supplies of hazmat suits in response to soaring COVID-19 infections.

The central province of Quảng Ngãi has temporarily halted tourists travelling from the mainland to the Lý Sơn Islands from March 9. The decision was made to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Sunday (March 8) praised Tiền Giang Province authorities and the main contractor of Trung Lương-Mỹ Thuận expressway project for completing 35 per cent of the construction work.

Fed up with staying home for so long during the extended school closures, university students are turning to online jobs to make up for part-time employment they lost due to the impacts of the COVID-19 epidemic.

A co-operation programme between HCM City’s Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and Department of Education and Training aims to strengthen the prevention and control of child violence and abuse by 2025.

The Ministry of Health has released guidance for people to follow to reduce the risk of COVID-19 infection.

Deputy Prime Minister and head of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control Vũ Đức Đam on Sunday requested compulsory health declarations for all citizens in the country to start on March 10 at the latest.

The 26-year-old patient visited her sister in the UK in February, then travelled to Milan (Italy) and Paris (France) and returned to Hà Nội on March 1 on flight VN0054 of Vietnam Airlines.