Việt Nam News

The HCM City Department of Planning and Architecture has submitted suggestions to city authorities for underground space planning for the 930-ha city centre comprising Districts 1 and 3 and and the Thủ Thiêm new urban area in District 2, according to Thanh Niên (Young People) newspaper.

The southern province of Tây Ninh plans to start building two new roads and upgrade an existing one next year at an estimated cost of VNĐ4.5 trillion (US$194 million) that will come from both the central and local governments.

Three new imported cases confirmed. Two Vietnamese returning from Germany and the US, as well as one Nepalese expert. Eight more people have recovered. No new community infections have been reported this evening.

More than 100 massage parlours and other service venues which provided jobs for visually-impaired people in the capital city were closed as non-essential services during the COVID-19 social distancing period earlier this year.

Hoàng Lan Hương was born paralysed, has difficulties in speaking and finds it hard to communicate with others.

A 56-year-old patient from Bình Thuận Province was hospitalised recently at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in HCM City for prolonged fever and diarrhoea.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Long An plans to increase its rate of high-quality rice cultivation to 70 -75 per cent during 2021 – 25 from the current 50 per cent, according to its Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

A ten-month-old baby is among seven imported COVID-19 cases reported in Việt Nam on Wednesday evening.

Local carriers will have to suspend international flights if flight crew members violate regulations on medical isolation and COVID-19 prevention.

The HCM City People’s Committee will allow districts 6, Tân Bình and Bình Tân to mandate social distancing if they think it is necessary after a few new cases of Covid-19 were found there.

The dead include an 8-year-old girl, an 11-year-old girl, a 28-year-old woman, a 31-year-old woman and a 35-year-old man, three of them in Khanh Hoa Province and two in Lam Dong Province.

The Cửu Long (Mekong Delta) province of Kiên Giang has seen a rebound in domestic tourism and tourist numbers are expected to surge during the New Year and Tết (Lunar New Year) holidays.

HCM City plans to build 412 inland waterway berths in 21 districts in the next decade to exploit the potential of its 1000-km long network of canals and rivers for transport and tourism development.

Associate Professor Bùi Thanh Hương from the Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan talks to Nhân Dân (The People) newspaper about the recovery of domestic tourism after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Việt Nam is seen as a bright spot in HIV/AIDS prevention and control as the epidemic has been well controlled in the country in recent years, experts said at a conference.

Two more community infections of COVID-19 have been detected in HCM City, both connected to the teacher who broke Viet Nam’s three month run of no locally transmitted cases. Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Tuesday ordered a temporary suspension of all commercial flights to Việt Nam. 

The Ministry of Health have said the case was caused when a flight attendant from Vietnam Airlines who had tested positive for the virus “lowered his guard” and met with friends and family when he should have been self-isolating.