Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính on Tuesday asked authorities in the southern province of Bình Dương to investigate a case in which a man died at home after five medical facilities in the province reportedly refused to provide him with emergency care last Friday night.
The Ministry of Health has sent a dispatch on the prevention and control of COVID-19 at offices to ministries, State and Government agencies, city and provincial people's committees, the ministry reported on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính has asked localities to ensure support for residents amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The earliest date for students at all levels in Hà Nội to start their 2021 – 2022 academic year is September 1, according to a new decision issued by the capital authorities.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Bùi Thanh Sơn chaired the first meeting of the Government’s freshly established working group on COVID-19 vaccine diplomacy in Hà Nội on Monday.
Unemployed because of the pandemic, people in the central province of Quảng Trị are heading to the forest to illegally harvest cinnamon bark .
Technology is a supportive tool of the health sector in COVID-19 prevention and control, and a means for people to cooperate with the health sector.
The Standing Board of the HCM City Party Committee on Sunday asked authorities of Thủ Đức city and all districts to quickly provide support, including cash and free food, to needy people affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
HCM City plans to begin vaccinating people aged 12-18 from September if there is a suitable vaccine source, according to city authorities.
The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Trà Vinh is speeding up dredging of 14 main irrigation canals with a total length of 125.3 km and expects to complete the work early next month.
An intensive care unit (ICU) in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta city of Cần Thơ began admitting severe COVID-19 cases on Monday amid a spike in new infections in the region.
HCM City and Bình Dương, two biggest hot spots in the country, continued to top the new infections with four-digit daily increase, recording 3,341 and 2,522 patients each over the past 24 hours, which brought the case count in the fourth wave (since late April) to 152,827 and 46,501.
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The ultraviolet (UV) radiation indexes in northern, southern and central regions on Monday were predicted to reach strong and very strong levels, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.
With an increasing number of asymptomatic COVID-19 patients isolating themselves at home in HCM City, healthcare agencies are providing free medical consultancy through hotlines and Zalo groups, and oxygen cylinders and concentrators in case of emergencies.
