Việt Nam News

Three COVID-19 intensive care units with doctors and medical personnel coming from three central-level hospitals across the country opened on Saturday (August 7) in HCM City.

Dr Kidong Park, Representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Việt Nam, has made recommendations for the country on COVID-19 prevention and control in the fourth wave of outbreaks, in which he emphasised vaccinations and affirmed that the organisation will accompany Việt Nam.

Two geographical information system applications to help people shop online and authorities monitor the COVID-19 pandemic, trialled for one month in Thủ Đức City, will now be expanded to 11 districts in HCM City.

Social network Zalo has launched tool Zalo Connect which aims to support its users that are facing difficulties amid complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The HCM City Journalists Association has handed over essential medical supplies donated by 42 central and municipal media agencies to five hospitals for them to respond to COVID-19 .

As of August 5, nearly 3.5 million Vietnamese people have had an online certificate of COVID-19 vaccination.

The HCM City People's Committee has approved a second COVID-19 support package targeted at self-employed workers, poor households and poor workers worth more than VNĐ900 billion (US$ 39.2 million)

HCM City has licensed three more companies with approval from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to collect and treat Covid-19-related wastes to cope with their sharp increase as the pandemic continues unabated.

Việt Nam is speeding up its vaccination drive – the top priority to fight the increasingly complicated COVID-19 pandemic.

HCM City will use more hospitals to treat severe COVID-19 patients since the designated hospitals now are almost full, Phan Văn Mãi, deputy secretary of the city Party Committee, has said.

The Sub-committee for Treatment under the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control yesterday announced 296 COVID-19 related deaths in 17 localities from August 1 to 6.

COVID-19 update

Hà Nội People’s Committee on Friday afternoon has officially announced its decision to extend the citywide stringent social distancing order for 15 days until 6am August 23.

The Ministry of Public Security on Thursday announced a mobilty management system for people living in pandemic-hit areas, which is connected with the national database of population and residence.

The central city’s people committee closed two bridges – the Hàn River Swing and Thuận Phước – in isolating and limiting travels between the downtown and the Sơn Trà peninsula as 45 out of 77 infection cases found on Thursday were identified at the district.

A further 592,100 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, AstraZeneca, arrived at Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport in HCM City on Friday morning.