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Việt Nam hopes to receive more support from international organisations and countries around the world to access more sources of COVID-19 vaccines, health minister Nguyễn Thanh Long told an online meeting with representatives from the COVAX Facility scheme (COVAX) and health officials from a number of countries on June 1.
The measures are responses to different threat levels, which were colour-coded with red being the highest level of threat of infection, following by orange (high risk), yellow (medium risk) and green (new normal), on the epidemiologic map.
Land acquisition and clearance for HCM City’s Ring Road No.3 is estimated to cost more than VNĐ26.4 trillion (US$1.14 billion) to be sourced from public funds, according to the city Department of Transport.
More than 2 million children in Hà Nội have been stuck at home after the city's schools, parks, zoos and entertainment areas temporarily closed to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
More than 270,000 people, including 80,000 workers at six industrial parks and zones, were tested for SARS-COV-2 from May 3-21 to map out safe zones in the city.
A number of COVID-19 cases were reported at apartment buildings in Hà Nội in recent days, putting thousands of residents under lockdown.
Việt Nam’s per capita income in 2020 declined two per cent to VNĐ4.23 million (US$183.19) per month compared to 2019, the General Statistics Office (GSO) has said.
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The Nội Bài International Airport in Hà Nội will stop receiving foreign arrivals from Tuesday until June 7 amid complicated development of COVID-19.
Earlier today the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) handed over 1,652 COVID-19 test kits to the Ministry of Health (MoH) as part of an effort to help put the spread of the virus in northern Việt Nam under control.
Hà Nội’s Centre for Diseases Control on Monday moved suspected COVID-19 cases from the concentrated quarantine area in the Military School of Hà Nội Capital High Command to FPT University dorms after dozens of cases were detected in the area on Sunday night.
The busy streets of the southern economic centre HCM City fell silent on Monday, the first day of the two-week social distancing order in a bid to contain swelling COVID-19 case numbers.
Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình has ordered HCM City to tighten COVID-19 prevention measures at industrial zones and export processing zones as the city begins its two-week social distancing period starting on Monday (May 31).
