Việt Nam News

Germany has decided to donate 2.5 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine to Việt Nam, according to the Vietnamese foreign ministry.

HCM City is speeding up its pace of vaccinations as part of an effort to contain the COVID-19 outbreak and “relax social distancing” restrictions, the HCM City Centre of Disease Control (HCDC) said.

The education sector should be ready for COVID-19 and take measures to minimise its negative impact, said President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc in a letter sent to the sector at the outset of the 2021-2022 school year.

Of more than 1.3 million students from the primary to high school level in HCM City, 77,000 lack either access to the internet or electronic devices to study online, according to school surveys requested by the city Department of Education and Training.

The number of children under 16 years old contracting COVID-19 in HCM City has risen, partly because of an increase in tests being conducted in the community, according to the HCM City Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention.

Japan is planning to donate another 440,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines, split between Việt Nam, Thailand, and Taiwan, Japanese foreign minister Toshimitsu Motegi has announced on September.

Hà Nội is striving to reduce child and juvenile labour, those between seven and 17 years old, to under 1 per cent by 2025.

Deputy Minister of Health Nguyễn Trường Sơn has written an open letter to people who have recovered from the Delta variant of COVID-19, calling on them to join hands in the fight against the epidemic in HCM City.

Việt Nam recorded the highest daily increase in coronavirus cases on Friday (September 3) with 14,922 new infections, taking the total tally to more than half a million.

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Ten districts of Hà Nội, have been classified as red zones under the city’s new system to curb the spread of COVID-19.

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính on Thursday evening directed prevention and control measures for 2,594 communes, wards and towns of 19 southern localities that are undergoing social distancing through an online system set up in his office. 

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính delivered a speech at the 2021 Global Trade in Services Summit via video on Thursday evening, highlighting cooperation in digital transformation given the current situation.

The Central Committee of the HCM Communist Youth Union and the Saigon Beer Alcohol Beverage Co-operation jointly organised the virtual event to officially launch a social activity to spread positivity.

Van Chuong Ward in Dong Da District has been under lockdown for days as it is a COVID-19 hot spot. A complex road system has been set up here to give delivery drivers safe passage when dropping off goods in a locked down area of the capital. It may look a little complicated at first, but drivers soon got used to this a-MAZE-ing, and safe, way to work. VNS

The main span of the Thủ Thiêm 2 Bridge in HCM City, a key infrastructure work linking Thủ Đức City and District 1, was connected on September 2, according to its builder, the Đại Quang Minh Real Estate Investment Corporation.

Strict, social distancing measures will continue in the capital city after September 6, as authorities announce plans to introduce a new zonal system to curb the spread of COVID-19.