Việt Nam News

Minister of Health Nguyễn Thành Long has asked for thorough training of medical workers to ensure safety during COVID-19 vaccinations as Việt Nam plans to expand its inoculation programme.

The assessment of documents and assets are scheduled to take three to four weeks.

All nine new cases reported on Wednesday were imported.

April 1, 2021, marks an important milestone in Việt Nam’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, as the country received the first batch of free vaccines under COVAX, a global programme supported by the European Union aimed at providing innovative and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines.

International cooperation on the fight against COVID-19 pandemic and issues related to COVID-19 vaccine supplies were discussed during Wednesday meeting between Vietnamese health minister Nguyễn Thanh Long and Chinese, Indian and Russian ambassadors.

Traffic police will go undercover in a bid to tackle illegal street motorbike racing, the HCM City Police Department has announced.

At just 32-years-old, Dr Trần Anh Tú is one of the youngest members of a special team of the National Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

Two people have died in the last three weeks in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk after being bitten by rabid dogs.

Doctors at many district-level hospitals in HCM City have begun to perform complex surgeries thanks to training they are receiving from counterparts in top public hospitals.

The number of foreign arrivals to Việt Nam in the first quarter of this year fell 98.7 per cent year-on-year to just over 48,000, as the country’s inbound tourism sector continues to suffer due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Despite going 42 days without any new cases of COVID-19 in Hà Nội, health officials in the capital are warning there is still a risk of an outbreak. 

A Vietnam Airlines flight attendant who “seriously violated Covid-19 quarantine regulations” on March 30 received a two-year suspended sentence with a probation period of four years for “spreading dangerous infectious disease to people”, the HCM City People’s Court said.

The decision was announced at a meeting of the province’s leaders on Monday.

Police said the only person to survive was a 55-year-old man, Lục Chấn Tâm, who was sleeping near the front of the house when the fire broke out and managed to escape.

Vietnamese health minister Nguyễn Thanh Long said Việt Nam hoped that the US would provide support for the country’s plan to set up two central-level CDCs.

Many of the children have been abandoned by their parents or are orphans, making for a hugely difficult start to life.