Việt Nam News

The HCM City Journalists Association has handed over essential medical supplies donated by 42 central and municipal media agencies to five hospitals for them to respond to COVID-19 .

As of August 5, nearly 3.5 million Vietnamese people have had an online certificate of COVID-19 vaccination.

The HCM City People's Committee has approved a second COVID-19 support package targeted at self-employed workers, poor households and poor workers worth more than VNĐ900 billion (US$ 39.2 million)

HCM City has licensed three more companies with approval from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to collect and treat Covid-19-related wastes to cope with their sharp increase as the pandemic continues unabated.

Việt Nam is speeding up its vaccination drive – the top priority to fight the increasingly complicated COVID-19 pandemic.

HCM City will use more hospitals to treat severe COVID-19 patients since the designated hospitals now are almost full, Phan Văn Mãi, deputy secretary of the city Party Committee, has said.

The Sub-committee for Treatment under the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control yesterday announced 296 COVID-19 related deaths in 17 localities from August 1 to 6.

COVID-19 update

Hà Nội People’s Committee on Friday afternoon has officially announced its decision to extend the citywide stringent social distancing order for 15 days until 6am August 23.

The Ministry of Public Security on Thursday announced a mobilty management system for people living in pandemic-hit areas, which is connected with the national database of population and residence.

The central city’s people committee closed two bridges – the Hàn River Swing and Thuận Phước – in isolating and limiting travels between the downtown and the Sơn Trà peninsula as 45 out of 77 infection cases found on Thursday were identified at the district.

A further 592,100 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, AstraZeneca, arrived at Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport in HCM City on Friday morning.

The Prime Minister ordered authorities to implement more drastic and effective measures to curb infections, minimise deaths and speed up vaccinations

"Pandemic-free green zones” have been set up across HCM City to ban strangers from entering safe residential areas and encourage locals to stay indoors.

At 11pm on July 26, Trần Văn Dương, the director of Sài Gòn Medical Clinic in HCM City’s Bình Chánh District, and his staff transported several COVID-19 patients to field hospital No.11 in Thủ Đức city.

The number of daily COVID-19 cases in HCM City fell to 2,349 on the morning of August 5 from 6,318 on July 27, according to the city Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention.