Schools in HCM City will reopen for in-person learning in the second semester of the acedemic year that begins in January amid declining COVID-19 infection cases and hospitalisations, according to the city’s Department of Education and Training.
Heavy rain is expected to blanket northern and north-central provinces from Saturday to Tuesday due to storm Lionrock – the seventh storm that has entered the East Sea this year, according to the National Hydrometeorological Forecast Centre.
The US has sent another million doses of Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines to Việt Nam, the US Agency for International Development announced.
The Ministry of Health on Wednesday added three antiviral drugs - Molnupiravir 400 mg, remdesivir and favipiravir to its latest COVID-19 treatment protocol.
The Nanoneem project by the namesake team from HCM City’s International University and Foreign Trade University in Hà Nội that uses nanotechnology to produce herb-based pesticides to enable green agriculture has won the first prize in the 2021 Social Business Creation competition, a cash award of 30,000 Canadian dollars (US$) and a 4,200-dollar scholarship.
HCM City and its neighbouring provinces of Bình Dương, Tây Ninh, Đồng Nai and Long An have reached an agreement on the travelling of workers and experts between the five localities.
Lecturers at the Faculty of Tourism – Vietnamese Studies, Nguyễn Tất Thành University (HCM City), established a kitchen inside the university to provide meals for patients and frontline medical workers.
The military medical force will not withdraw from HCM City yet, remaining to support the city’s mobile medical stations until the end of November, Colonel Nguyễn Văn Giang, deputy director of the Military Medical Department under the Ministry of National Defence, has said.
Đào Huy Hiếu, a doctor at the 108 Military Hospital, was sent to support the frontline teams at the epicentre of COVID-19, HCM City. He and his colleagues left Hà Nội for HCM City only a day after receiving the request. In HCM City, his team was located at a secondary school in Tân Bình District and tasked with providing check-ups, treatment and consultancy to home-based COVID-19 patients. He wrote about the days he fought the virus to save patients alongside with other doctors.
Living in the dorm, Hùa impressed everyone by his will and commitment to study. He would try to study anywhere, anytime, and even sat next to his peers just to attend an online class that he was not able to afford.
A total of 4,150 new COVID-19 infections were registered in Việt Nam on Thursday, 209 cases fewer than the day before.
The Ministry of Health has asked localities to speed up the progress of vaccinations, stressing it will likely receive a large amount of COVID-19 vaccines by the end of this year as the country is now a third of the way through the national vaccine rollout plan.
Craft villages employ around one million labourers in rural areas with an average income of VNĐ5-6 million per month per person, according to Chí.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Việt Nam (CAAV) has proposed the Ministry of Transport (MoT) re-open 10 domestic air routes from Sunday.
The planned launch of a satellite made entirely by Vietnamese engineers has been suspended for a second time.
Asia Injury Prevention (AIP) Foundation’s three-year AI&Me programme which applies AI, big data and digital technology to improve road safety has developed a ‘youth engagement app’ to offer young people an efficient way to identify and report high-risk road conditions.
As non-essential services are still banned to prevent COVID-19, some bars and pubs in HCM City have been turned into mini-marts selling fruits and vegetables.
