Việt Nam News

As Việt Nam struggles to cope with the fourth outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, expats who find themselves thousands of kilometres away from their homes have seen their lives turned upside down.

 A total of 11,172 new COVID-19 cases have been detected in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of infections to 624,547.

The HCM City Department of Health has sought approval from the Ministry of Health to reduce the time between two AstraZeneca COVID-19 shots from the usual eight to 12 weeks down to six weeks to speed up immunisation.

The Ministry of Health held an online training conference on Monday to deploy the project on enhancing the supply and use of medical oxygen for facilities treating COVID-19 patients with participations from more than 1000 locations in 63 provinces and cities. 

HCM City authorities have announced an extension of the lockdown until the end of September from mid-month as instructed by the Government, and delayed a plan to issue COVID ‘green cards’ until further notice.

PM Chính said supporting millions of disadvantaged students with internet and computers to learn online now would be supporting an entire generation.

Almost one million adults were vaccinated in Hà Nội over the weekend, according to the city’s Health Department.

Deputy Prime Minister Lê Minh Khái has signed decisions to allocate rice, tents and electricity generators from the national reserves to Gia Lai, Bình Phước and Sóc Trăng provinces to support people affected by the pandemic.

Lê Thanh Truyền, a final-year student of HCM City-based University of Medicine and Pharmacy, starts bringing medicine for COVID-19 patients across the city at 7am every day.

Many patients at the COVID-19 resuscitation hospital in HCM City, managed by Huế Central Hospital, are receiving meals and medication from a robot.

 The Hồ Chí Minh Communist Youth Union is calling for support for its programme called "Million bags of social security," which aims to help people in need during t the COVID-19 pandemic.

The environment sector, especially in localities severely hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, has strengthened measures to protect environmental workers from being infected with SARS-CoV-2 when collecting waste.

Việt Nam’s total COVID-19 caseload reached more than 613,370 on Sunday after the Ministry of Health reported an increase of 11,478 more patients and another 261 deaths.

345 Vietnamese citizens repatriated from the US, departed from Los Angeles and San Francisco, transiting via Seoul in South Korea, and finally boarded two flights (VN5413 and VN5414) run by Vietnam Airlines.

More than 4,300 coffee growing households in the northern province of Sơn La will receive support in coffee farming, production and trade under a 2-year project by the Foundation for International Development/Relief (FIDR) Vietnam Office – a Japan-based NGO.

Thụy Phương Commune in suburban Chương Mỹ District was put under lockdown on Saturday night after five COVID-19 cases were reported.