Việt Nam News

The assessment came as the country reports new clusters of COVID-19 community transmission with no currently known source of infection on Thursday after nearly two months of no local cases, but health authorities have been responding swiftly.

Many regions across the country, especially the Central Highlands and Mekong Delta, face risks of water shortage, drought and saline intrusion next month, according to hydrometeorology experts.

Colleges and universities found to have violated enrolment regulations will face the fines of up to VNĐ100 million (US$4,340) and be forced to stop all enrolment activities, according to a new decree.

The province has mobilised the community's support to build houses for the impoverished, with thousands of houses provided for underprivileged families last year.

A group of reformed prisoners and rehabilitated drug addicts now spend their time helping people who run into trouble on the streets in southern Viet Nam at night. 

Thirty four new community COVID-19 infections have been recorded in northern Việt Nam, the Ministry of Healthy confirmed Saturday morning.

The Department of Natural Resources and Environment and the Department of Education and Training in HCM City on Thursday signed a cooperation agreement on environmental education and communications for the 2021-2025 period.

A total of 54 new cases of COVID-19, including one imported case and 53 community cases, were confirmed on Friday evening, according to the Ministry of Health.

A number of universities and hospitals in the country are focusing on research and integration of medicine in sports training and selecting athletes.

Early on Friday morning, health workers of the Congress’ health subcommittee started collecting nasal-throat swabs from all reporters and media staff, along with medical personnel and other workers working at the National Convention Centre to test for COVID-19.

Following an outbreak of new community COVID-19 cases in the north of the country, Hà Nội will test all people who have returned from Quảng Ninh Province and Chí Linh City, Hải Dương Province since January 14. The city expects to complete the testing by Monday, February 1.

In the early hours of Friday morning, authorities in the capital announced lockdown procedures for the entire T6 block, asking all residents to remain in their apartments until further notice.

Minister of Health Nguyễn Thành Long asked relevant units to establish three COVID-19 treatment hospitals in the northern province of Hải Dương, where 77 community infection cases with new highly contagious variant were confirmed over the past three days.

Facing more severe weather conditions like floods in the central region last October, the weather forecasting agencies have applied new technology to help predict and issue early warnings of typhoons five days before they make landfall and warning of tropical depression three days earlier.

Results from testing 10,682 motorbikes showed that more than 1,850 vehicles, accounting for 17.3 per cent of the total, did not meet the national emission criteria's level 1; while more than 2,410 vehicles, accounting for 22.6 per cent, failed to meet level 2.

Three Vietnamese companies have won a regional challenge to combat plastic waste in Hạ Long Bay.