Việt Nam News

Tết (Lunar New Year) is approaching and more than 60 households in Lượng Minh Commune of the central province of Nghệ An will be forced to spend the holiday in makeshift huts because two projects to resettle the people in proper houses lack capital.

Trần Như Dương, Deputy Director National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, who headed up the institute’s task force sent to Hải Dương Province – the current coronavirus epicentre in Việt Nam’s recent outbreaks – told the media that the highly transmissible variant of the virus demands utmost speed from health workers.

Twelve of the patients are in Hải Dương, three in Điện Biên, one in Hà Giang and one in Hà Nội.

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Minister of Health Nguyễn Thanh Long made the announcement at an online meeting yesterday morning with localities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Vietnam Vaccine Joint Stock Company (VNVC) has announced that it will import 30 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine from the UK in the first half of 2020.

In 2020, facing COVID-19, the Vietnamese economy has been suffering from severe aftershocks. However, in that context, we also witnessed resilience in maintaining jobs for employees, vigorous recovery and restructuring efforts of enterprises to overcome the crisis and work to repel the pandemic. Especially, many businesses showed their social responsibility and solidarity.

The rotation of senior State officials to key leadership positions at grassroots levels has proven effective in the northern province of Bắc Giang for years.

Chairman of Hà Nội People's Committee Chu Ngoc Anh has requested districts and agencies to implement drastic measures, including halting all festivals, to fight the spread of COVID-19.

HCM City authorities plan to gradually relocate its water supply sources further upstream of the Sài Gòn and Đồng Nai rivers as part of its effort to ensure clean water for local use.

Hồ Văn Niên, Party Secretary of the Gia Lai Provincial Party Committee, spoke to the Vietnam News Agency on achievements that his province has achieved when implementing the national target programme on socio-economic development

Doctors from two major hospitals in Việt Nam help treating a child patient who suffered from innate combined immunodeficiency.

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More than 350 female domestic workers in HCM City, Bình Dương, Hải Phòng and Đà Nẵng, receive cash and training assistance with a total value of NZD$50,000 dollars (US$35,980).

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Bến Tre has tightened measures to control the coconut black – headed caterpillar, a pest that has been damaging the coconut crop since appearing for the first time last July.