Việt Nam News

Residents will be able to travel within HCM City without permits beginning Friday, and barriers at checkpoints within the city will be removed as the city relaxes lockdown measures.

The national unified COVID-19 prevention and control app PC-Covid Việt Nam, was made available on iOS’ App Store and Android’s Google Play Store for smartphones on Thursday.

Healthcare services that were closed temporarily can resume operating on October 1, according to the city Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

The country’s pandemic hotspot HCM City has officially announced plans to gradually reopen its economy from October 1.

The Ministry of Health has proposed allowing passengers to travel by air, train and waterways without negative COVID-19 tests, if they are travelling after three weeks being injected with the first vaccine or have recovered from the disease within six months.

Hòa Bình's people are united for a common goal: ensuring the socio-economic development of the province whilst fighting the pandemic.

The HCM City Department of Transport has drafted travel regulations starting from October 1 that specify where vehicles can ply based on COVID-19 levels.

The first batch of 740,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V in Việt Nam’s procurement order arrived at Nội Bài International Airport in Hà Nội on Wednesday.

This is to avoid situations seen recently, where many students achieved high scores but still failed to qualify for their chosen university. 

Many localities in the country have prepared scenarios to ensure safety for students to be back to school.

The travel movement of people from the four COVID epicentres of HCM City and Long An, Đồng Nai and Bình Dương provinces must remain strictly controlled after September 30 in order to prevent the spread of virus to provinces where vaccination rates remain low, leaders of southern and Central Highlands' provinces have said.

Authorities in the southern province of Đồng Nai will remove barriers at pandemic checkpoints that blocked off alleys, residential areas and some roads in green (COVID-free) zones from October 1.

Less than 9,000 new COVID cases were recorded on Wednesday, taking the total number of infections to 779,398.

COVID-19 update

Hà Nội residents have been allowed to exercise outdoors again after nearly three months of of suspension due to COVID-19.

Markets, hotels, outdoor sports and public transport will resume in the central city from Thursday morning, though other restrictions will remain in place for now. 

Hundreds of residents of Thanh Xuân District in Hà Nội have returned to their homes after they were evacuated when the neighbourhood became the capital's biggest COVID cluster. Hundreds more will be back in their own houses over the next few days.