Việt Nam News

HCM City has called for tighter measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 ahead of the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday after Việt Nam identified 82 new Covid-19 cases related to the two that were diagnosed on Thursday (Jan 28), the highest number recorded in a single day in the country. 

Eighty-four new locally transmitted cases have been detected, and now the Ministry of Health has released the details of locations visited by positive patients over the past 11 days.

Việt Nam has earned three awards in the latest round of the Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER), an international programme that funds scientists and engineers in developing countries who partner with US government-funded researchers to address global development challenges. 

Việt Nam should get ready to deal with up to 30,000 new community cases of COVID-19 in the worst-case scenario of the new outbreaks, but health authorities are striving to achieve containment within 10 days, a top official has said.

Eighty-four community cases of COVID-19 were reported in the northern provinces of Quảng Ninh and Hải Dương on Thursday. Additionally, seven imported cases have been confirmed by the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

Doctors at the Children Hospital No 2 in HCM City have successfully performed a stem cell transplant for a 32-month-old girl with high-risk neuroblastoma.  

“We have to be transparent with the information but we have to remain calm. [We will] swiftly suppress the outbreaks but at the same time, won’t cause panic and shock among the public, and ensure the successes of the Congress," PM Phúc said.

Receiving a gift from a charity group of the 'Border Spring' programme made student Cao Ngọc Huyền feel so happy.

A hearing began on Monday of a case brought by Vietnamese-French woman Trần Tố Nga against the US companies that provided chemical toxins used by the US Army in the war with Việt Nam.

Over more than 30 years of growing peach blossom trees, Lê Hàm, living in Nhật Tân Flower Village, Tây Hồ District in Hà Nội, has faced many setbacks.

All schools from kindergarten to university-level institutions in Quảng Ninh Province in northern Việt Nam have been told to close today until at least the end of the week after a COVID-19 community case was detected.

One of the new cases is linked to a woman who tested positive for the new variant of coronavirus after arriving in Japan to work earlier this week.

The Rạch Miễu temporary ferry station started operation on Wednesday, offering a ferry service to cross the Tiền River that links the Mekong Delta provinces of Tiền Giang and Bến Tre.

There have been many similar cases reported since last year where a Vietnamese entrants to Japan tested positive upon arrival at the airports, but later PCR tests returned negative for coronavirus.

A group of Vietnamese researchers at the University of Connecticut in the US have invented COVID-19 high-tech biological face masks and patches to deliver vaccines into the human body easily.

The central province of Quảng Trị hopes the completion of new coastal roads by 2025 will help drive social-economic development.