Việt Nam News

Đà Nẵng on Thursday started administering Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for 16,800 people, mostly high-risks people in locked down areas or essential service workers, in the phase of allocation between July 29 and August 5.

If you are COVID-19 positive and stay at home or are caring for loved ones who have COVID-19, here is what you need to know to be well-prepared in the fight against the virus. This advice was provided by Deputy Minister of Health Nguyễn Trường Sơn, head of the ministry’s steering board for COVID-19 prevention and control.

Finnish educators are looking forward to welcoming more and more high school Vietnamese students to study in their country.

HCM CITY— HCM City is considering extending its current social distancing period for one to two weeks as part of an effort to curb the increasing number of COVID-19 cases, Phan Văn Mãi, deputy secretary of the HCM City Party Committee, said at a press meeting on July 28.

AstraZeneca delivered additionally 659,900 COVID-19 vaccines doses to HCM City on Thurday morning.

Construction of the 9.4km-long Road 319, which will improve goods transport between industrial parks in Đồng Nai Province and HCM City, is expected to be completed by the end of this month after nearly four years of construction.

Việt Nam needs to have better solutions to integrate drowning prevention and control in climate change programmes, particularly interested in young children.

More than 100 new COVID-related deaths have been recorded in Việt Nam, taking the total number of fatalities to 630.

Farmers have failed to sell their farm produce while consumers have difficulties to access food sources in the southern provinces because of the restriction of travel and the closures of both wholesale and retailed markets.

Strong winds and rain damaged many houses in the Cửu Long Delta provinces of Hậu Giang and An Giang and Cần Thơ City on Tuesday (July 27).

COVID-19 update

Hà Nội launched its first leg of mass COVID-19 vaccination drive on Wednesday, starting with the downtown central district of Hoàn Kiếm.

Deputy Health Minister Đỗ Xuân Tuyên has urged southern provinces to tighten prevention measures to curb the spread of the virus amid the worsening COVID-19 situation.

Serious kidney ailment and cancer patients in the central city of Đà Nẵng will be receiving Moderna vaccine from July 28 to September 5 as a mass COVID-19 vaccination was scheduled last weekend.

Việt Nam has signed COVID-19 vaccine technology transfer contracts with Russia, the US, and Japan, said Nguyễn Ngô Quang, Deputy Director of the Health Ministry’s Department for Science, Technology and Training.