Việt Nam News

The HCM City People’s Committee has unveiled a plan to strengthen the management, recycling, reuse, processing, and reduction of plastic waste in the city.

HCM City is building more than 10 hectares of public parks and 2 hectares of public green spaces by the end of the year.

The northern province of Quảng Ninh maintained first position on the Public Administration Reform Index (PAR Index) for the fourth consecutive year in 2020.

Secretary of HCM City Party Committee Nguyễn Văn Nên said the city would give top priority to both maintaining business and production and providing help to people and businesses affected by the pandemic.

A new project aims to improve climate-resilient irrigation and water security in the Central Highlands and south-central coastal region.

The southern province of Đồng Nai has been urged to tighten COVID-19 prevention and control to minimise the risk of infection in industrial parks while its two neighbouring localities – HCM City and Bình Dương – are becoming major COVID-19 hot spots in Việt Nam.

There were 285 new COVID-19 cases detected on Thursday, raising the total number of patients to have contracted the virus to 14,232.

COVID-19 update

The foreign ministry spokesperson Lê Thị Thu Hằng said reducing Việt Nam's achievements in the containment of COVID-19 pandemic to mere luck is "entirely unobjective," in response to queries for reaction to an article by the New York Times published earlier this month about COVID-19 in Việt Nam.

Bắc Giang City, in the province hit hardest by the ongoing fourth wave of COVID-19, has ended social distancing from 6am on Thursday after more than a month of applying the measures.

Everyone entering commercial establishments, work sites and other public sites in HCM City are required to fill ‘Hệ thống khai báo y tế điện tử’ (electronic health declaration system) starting on Thursday (June 24).

The HCM City Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has proposed that the Department of Planning and Investment spend VNĐ230 billion (US$9.97 million) to support freelance workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Up to 97 per cent of Vietnamese users identified Facebook as a top video platform while 74 per cent said they watch publisher videos because “I can watch videos on Facebook everywhere, every time”.

The health ministry’s Medical Services Administration (MSA) and the Embassy of Denmark in Việt Nam will continue a strategic collaboration on diabetes and other non-communicable diseases health education for period 2021-23.

Two elderly men, aged 88 and 82, have died of COVID-19 complications taking the total number of fatalities to 72.