Việt Nam News

From Saturday morning, the first day Hà Nội applied stricter social distancing measures under Directive 16, the inspection force have co-ordinated with the city’s functional forces to deploy solutions to prevent congestion at the gateways to the capital, Trần Hưng Hà, Director of the No.1 Road Administration Department  (at the Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam) said.

Hà Nội has developed plans to respond to a range of possible scenarios as the number of local COVID-19 infections increases, Deputy Secretary of the Hà Nội Party Committee Nguyễn Văn Phong has said.

Sacombank on July 23 donated VNĐ30 billion (US$1.3 million) to the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Long An Province to support people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Government will continue creating the best possible conditions for HCM City and southern provinces to contain the COVID-19 outbreak, Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính said at a meeting on July 23.

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính has directed the development and production of home-grown vaccines to move faster but has said their safety and efficacy must be ensured.

For nearly a month, despite the hot days and dark rainy nights, the medical teams, police, army, and volunteers in Phú Yên Province have gone to great lengths to firmly hold the frontline combatting the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hà Nội will apply strict social distancing measures across the city from 6am on Saturday July 24 to prevent further spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the latest dispatch issued by local authorities on Friday evening.

Việt Nam on Friday recorded the most ever COVID-19 cases in one day, with 7,307 cases, according to the Ministry of Health.

The HCM City Command on July 23 began spraying disinfectant throughout the city, especially in COVID-19 hotspots, for a period of seven days.

AstraZeneca Vietnam on Friday donated 150,000 boxes of medicine worth VNĐ62.6 billion to the Ministry of Health to support the treatment of non-communicable disease patients during the coronavirus pandemic.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has urged southern provinces to work with HCM City to enforce strict COVID-19 prevention measures and be ready to aid the city in the fight against the virus.     

HCM City has set up an extension on the hotline number 1012 for people to provide information about those who need extra assistance or essential goods amid the pandemic.

The HCM City Department of Health has changed from a four-level to five-level admission and treatment plan for COVID-19 patients.

City officials say the next two weeks are a critical time in the battle against coronavirus, and the tough, new measures should be strictly adhered to.

The first field hospital in Đà Nẵng officially opened on Friday for seriously ill COVID-19 patients from Đà Nẵng General Hospital. This will reduce the burden on the local healthcare system that has been stretched thin by an explosion of cases of COVID-19.