Việt Nam News

A factory producing Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 will be built in Việt Nam within one year and is expected to produce 30-40 million doses annually, Chairman of Russian pharmaceutical company Binnopharm Dmitry Zubov told Vietnam News Agency correspondents in Russia.

The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), the global largest agriculture innovation network has implemented more than 100 projects in 40 provinces in Việt Nam in the last five years with an investment of US$24 million, benefitting more than 24 million people.

Việt Nam on Saturday saw the highest daily new cases since the pandemic started in the country, with 16,141 new COVID-19 patients.

COVID-19 update on December 11

About 131 million doses have been administered in the country, with first-dose and second-dose coverage in the adult population hitting 96.4 per cent and 76.5 per cent.

In the short term, flights will operate between Việt Nam and Beijing/Guangzhou (China), Tokyo (Japan), Seoul (South Korea), Taipei – Taiwan (China), Bangkok (Thailand), Singapore, Vientiane (Laos), Phnom Penh (Cambodia) and San Francisco/Los Angeles (USA).

This Thursday, Jan Peter Balkenende, chairman of the Dutch Sustainable Growth Coalition (https://www.dsgc.nl/en) and former Prime Minister of the Netherlands, congratulated Vietnamese Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính with his strong commitment at the COP26 Summit in Glasgow to make Việt Nam climate neutral by 2050

Authorities in Hà Nội recorded 637 new cases. 

HCM City is calling for help from private pharmacies to help in the fight against COVID-19, and requesting more military medical staff amid a rising number of COVID patients.

Nguyễn Quang Tuấn, former director of Hà Nội Heart Hospital and Bạch Mai Hospital, was arrested on Friday

Đà Nẵng City, the travel hub in central Việt Nam, welcomed the first 500 MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences, and events) tourists on Friday after a long social distancing period in response to COVID-19

The Ministry of Transport has proposed two stages for the upcoming resumption of regular international commercial flights starting December 15.

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính outlined the vaccination roadmap when chairing a national online meeting on COVID-19 prevention and control on Friday.

AstraZeneca has announced that its Evusheld, a long-acting antibody combination, has received emergency use authorisation (EUA) in the US for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19, with first doses expected to become available very soon. 

The HCM City People’s Council has passed a resolution on socio-economic tasks for 2022 and the next five years to help “adapt safely and flexibly and effectively contain the outbreak, improve the quality of urban government, support businesses, and improve the business climate.” 

The People’s Court of Hà Nội today opens a first-instance trial of the case of purchasing the water cleaning agent Redoxy 3C to purify lakes in the city, causing tens of billions of đồng in damage to the State budget.