Việt Nam News

This school year is the second for the education sector to implement online teaching due to COVID-19, however, teachers, students and parents still have many difficulties.

Issuing COVID-19 green cards to eligible residents is one of several strategies that the HCM City Department of Health has proposed after September 15, when the city will make a decision on relaxing social distancing regulations.

Typhon Conson is heading to the north central region with heavy rains of up to 350mm, the National Hydrometeorological Forecast Centre has reported.

Việt Nam confirmed a further 13,321 new COVID-19 infections on Friday with more than half in HCM City.

More than 1,500 patients who have recovered from COVID-19 have volunteered to help hospitals, medical facilities and quarantine areas in HCM City, according to the city Department of Health.   

The reopening of wholesale markets in the city requires strict adherence to safety measures, Nguyễn Văn Nên, secretary of the HCM City Party Committee, said on Wednesday after a visit to Bình Điền Wholesale Market, which set up a transhipment station the previous day (Sept 7).

COVID-19 update

The Bình Dương Province People’s Committee has lifted a ban to allow people in Thủ Dầu Một City who have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine to travel within the city.

The Vietnamese health ministry on Friday gave conditional approval for use in emergencies for Made-in-UAE COVID-19 vaccine Hayat-Vax, the seventh to obtained such authorisation.

The mass COVID-19 vaccination is being conducted successfully in Hà Nội, and the city now can administer more than 300,000 doses daily – the highest amount so far, said Minister of Health Nguyễn Thanh Long.

Students and teachers infected with COVID-19 need psychological support to start the new school year, according to the Physical Education Department of the Ministry of Education and Training.

The Bình Dương Province People’s Committee has called on its Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control to allow some essential services to resume.

Deputy Minister of Health Nguyễn Trường Sơn, head of the ministry’s special taskforce in HCM City for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, has sent a document to the city’s Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control outlining the dire conditions for medical staff and proposals to improve them.

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính has requested localities under social distancing rules to complete testing of the entire population by September 15 to eliminate the source of COVID-19 infection from the community. 

Authorities in the Cửu Long (Mekong) delta are speeding up works to prevent the damage caused by erosion along rivers, canals and coasts, especially in the ongoing rainy season.

The HCM City Department of Public Security has installed 100 QR-code scanning cameras at COVID-19 checkpoints to minimise the risk of disease transmission.

HCM City People’s Committee late Wednesday issued a new decision on COVID-19 prevention and control measures as the city continues to stay under the restrictive Directive 16.

Several critical COVID-19 patients have recovered and been released from Đà Nẵng’s Lung hospital after 17-day treatment. They now need a two-week home quarantine.