Việt Nam News

The HCM City Department of Health has released new guidance for home-based care of patients with mild or moderate COVID-19 symptoms amid a surge in new COVID-19 cases, hospitalisations and deaths in the past week.

The Ministry of Health has urged localities to strengthen control over not just COVID-19, but also infectious diseases that occur during the winter, especially viral respiratory and gastrointestinal viruses. 

The Ministry of Construction has planned to conduct inspections of the management and use of funds for the maintenance of apartment buildings as well as the implementation of holding land funds for building social housing in 11 provinces and cities next year.

Due a severe shortage of water, farmers in the Central Highland province of Gia Lai were lucky to get just one crop each year. But thanks to a new irrigation system installed in Ayun Commune, Chư Sê District, they have doubled their rice production capabilities. 

Four more metro trains for HCM City's first metro line project connecting Ben Thanh Market with Suối Tiên Park will be shipped to the city in the next few weeks.

The fourth forum of young Vietnamese intellectuals around the globe opened in Hà Nội on Thursday with the theme of promoting young Vietnamese intellectuals in the national digital transformation.

Việt Nam has been warned there is no room for complacency as a fifth wave of COVID-19 could strike anytime.

The Ministry of Health announced 12,450 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, the highest daily figure in over two and a half months. 

The HCM City Department of Construction has suggested that the city offer financial assistance to landlords to help them repair or upgrade their boarding houses where hundreds of thousands of workers live in the city.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Sóc Trăng's large-scale farming areas and improved linkages among stakeholders have resulted in higher yield and profits after five years of agricultural restructuring.

Nitazoxanide has been successfully synthesized by the Institute of Chemistry, under the Việt Nam Academy of Science and Technology, to produce drugs to treat COVID-19 patients with mild and medium symptoms. 

The non-profit Nippon Foundation and the Japan Science Society on Wednesday donated English books about Japan to HCM City Open University’s library as a part of their Read Japan Project.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) on Wednesday has instructed localities to develop a plan for the third dose of COVID-19 vaccine.

Authorities in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang have announced online classes for primary students will be halted for a week, from November 29 to December 5, 2021.

Twenty three people have been arrested for illegal gambling after police raided a cockfighting arena in the southern province of Đồng Nai on Sunday.

The southernmost province of Cà Mau has strengthened regulations on the use of Cà Mau geographical indication for its black tiger shrimp to protect the rights of shrimp breeders and consumers.

Deputy health minister Trần Văn Thuấn said Việt Nam’s medical oxygen supply capacity is sufficient to cope with COVID-19 demands amid escalating outbreaks in many areas of the country.