Việt Nam News

The capital city Hà Nội reported 18 new cases. 

The HCM City Department of Health on October 25 asked the Pasteur Institute in the city to approve the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 12-17.

A total 75,250,990 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Việt Nam so far, according to the national COVID-19 Vaccine Portal on Tuesday.

Authorities from neighbouring Quảng Ngãi Province confirmed that they went missing in a basket boat while trying to rescue a fishing boat with other people on the Trà Bồng estuary last Sunday.

Five Vietnamese scientists have been named on a list of the top 10,000 scientists in the world, according to the PLOS Biology Journal in the United States.

The extensive vaccination of children aged 12 and above helps reduce disease burden and the risk of new variant emergence, potentially by reducing viral transmission, Dr Kidong Park, WHO Representative in Việt Nam, said in an interview with Vietnam News Agency reporters.

Việt Nam has decided to urgently support the Lao Party, State and people with US$2.15 million and some medical supplies in aid of the nation’s efforts to combat the latest wave of COVID-19, informed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyễn Quốc Dũng at a ceremony held on Monday.

A senior medical expert has warned that even though social distancing regulations have been greatly eased in Hà Nội, the capital city is still at risk of further COVID-19 outbreaks.

By the end of the year HCM City aims to complete 11 construction packages of key traffic infrastructure projects which have been allowed to resume after the city relaxed its stringent COVID-19 prevention measures at the beginning of October.

Minister of Health Nguyễn Thanh Long urged localities to raise their vigilance as the risk of further COVID-19 outbreaks is very high in the near future.

HCM City has been assessed as being at level 2, or medium risk of pandemic, in the four levels of risk under the Government’s Resolution 128.

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The Ministry of Health reported 3,639 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, along with 65 more deaths.

The Việt Nam Post and Telecommunication Corporation and Thủ Đức city on Saturday (October 23) officially opened the intelligent operation centre, an important cog in helping the latter build a smart city and e-governance, after a five-month trial run.

Thirteen students from Hoành Bồ High School, Hạ Long City, the northern province of Quảng Ninh, were taken to hospital for emergency medical attention yesterday after consuming what is suspected to be cannabis-laced candies.