Support teams from Chợ Rẫy Hospital have been deployed to support COVID-19 treatment at 19 different field hospitals in HCM City.
A total of 6,194 new COVID-19 cases were detected on Thursday, the largest ever number in a single day.
HCM City on Thursday (July 22) started its fifth round of its COVID-19 vaccination drive with 930,000 doses for priority groups, including people aged 65 and over and those with underlying medical conditions, to be completed within two to three weeks.
Vietnamese foreign ministry will urge local authorities to review protocols in dealing with deaths of foreign nationals due to COVID-19, spokesperson Lê Thị Thu Hằng said on Thursday.
HCM City has been allocated the largest amount of the COVID-19 vaccine doses so far.
A number of policies supporting families that have contributed to the revolution, and Agent Orange/dioxin (AO) victims, have been issued by the Vietnamese State, President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said Wednesday.
Production facilities and enterprises that record COVID-19 cases have been asked to quarantine the patients on-site and report to health authorities, a Ministry of Health working group said Wednesday.
HCM City will continue social distancing under the Government’s Directive No.16 and apply more stringent COVID-19 preventive measures in very high-risk areas, Phan Văn Mãi, deputy secretary of the HCM City Party Committee, said at a press meeting on July 21.
HCM City has suspended toll collections at BOT (build-operate-transfer) toll stations to support the fight against the latest Covid-19 outbreak.
There will only be two round trip passenger flights a day between Hà Nội and HCM City from midnight of Wednesday, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has announced.
The Provincial Youth Union, in the Northern province of Bắc Ninh, has intervened to save several young start-ups heavily impacted, by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Côn Đảo Island’s airport in the southern province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu is expected to be expanded to receive larger aircraft and increase its capacity to two million passengers a year.
More than 11.2 million employees, working at 375,000 businesses in the country, have received a reduction in their insurance premiums for occupational accidents and diseases, worth about VNĐ4.3 trillion (US$187.6 million), according to Việt Nam Social Security.
Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính has approved a programme of children’s accidents and injuries prevention and control for the period 2021-2030.
HCM City People’s Committee has instructed authorities in Thủ Đức city and districts to set up quarantine facilities exclusively for asymptomatic COVID patients.
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