Việt Nam News

Việt Nam is advised to carefully operate the vaccine passport programme, which is designed to ensure people’s lives and maintain economic growth.

As the number of infections triggered by the Delta variant escalates in Việt Nam and a significant number of people were hospitalised or have passed away, Việt Nam has shifted its anti-pandemic approach from “zero COVID”  to “living safely with COVID.”

HCM City’s master plan calls for the city to be developed into the nation’s largest economic hub for tourism, industrial services and high-tech agriculture by 2040, with a focus on climate change adaptation.

The Ministry of Health on Thursday urgently asked agencies and localities to strictly follow the ministry’s guidelines over COVID-19 vaccinations after reports of children under 18 years old getting jabs.

A further 11,521 new COVID-19 infections were recorded in Việt Nam on Friday, increasing the caseload since the beginning of the pandemic to 667,650. There were also a further 212 COVID-related fatalities. 

HCM City should assess the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks in residential quarters and adopt appropriate preventive measures, Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam told city authorities at a meeting on September 16.

The HCM City Department of Health has directed the People’s Committees of districts and Thủ Đức City to submit lists of the number of people aged 18 and over who have not received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Police in Xuân Đỉnh Ward, Bắc Từ Liêm District, Hà Nội, are investigating the death of a six-year-old girl.

A marketing and communication campaign called ‘Resilient Blossoms’ by Hoàn Mỹ Medical Corporation has won the excellence award from Hospital Management Asia in the Branding & Marketing Campaign category.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has asked for completion of the dossier of the homegrown Nano Covax vaccine to submit for urgent licencing, and assistance for relevant firms in testing the anti-virus drug Molnupiravir in a notice released by the Government Office.

Trương Gia Bình, Chairman of the FPT Board of Management decided to open a school for 1,000 children who lost their parents to COVID-19.

Two siblings from District 10 in HCM City lost their parents who died from COVID-19, and three days later, their paternal grandfather passed away after contracting COVID-19.

Grassroots officials in HCM City are scrambling to update to identify and list people requiring relief from the COVID-19 pandemic under a proposed VNĐ10,000 billion (US$435 million) support package.

Several steel companies owned by the Việt Nam Steel Corporation have been supplying oxygen and oxygen cylinders for free to medical facilities to meet the rising demand for treating COVID-19 patients.

The police force has also helped to raise people's awareness and strictly handle violations, contributing to early disease control in the province.

The HCM City Department of Transport has drafted a set of criteria for evaluating the safety of operations for transport businesses amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Farmers in Ninh Thuận Province are being encouraged to expand cultivation of high-quality jujube and open up their orchards to tourists.