Việt Nam News

According to the Ministry of Health, the control system for communicable diseases has confirmed 5,545 cases of hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) since the beginning of 2022, including one death in Bình Thuận Province.

Wasting refers to the most lethal form of undernutrition and one of the top threats to child survival. Around 1 in 5 deaths among children under 5 are attributed to severe wasting, which is caused by a lack of nutritious food and repeated bouts of diseases such as diarrhoea, measles and malaria, which in turn compromise a child’s immunity

Việt Nam has downgraded COVID-19 from a Class A infectious disease, classified as “especially dangerous”, to Class B according to the Government’s newly-launched COVID-19 prevention and control programme.

More than three quarters of adults said agree with vaccinating children aged between five and 11-years-old against COVID, according to a nationwide survey. 

The Ministry of Health has urged localities to strengthen control over not just COVID-19, but also infectious diseases that occur during the winter, especially viral respiratory and gastrointestinal viruses. 

Việt Nam targets to eliminate human deaths from rabies by 2030 under a draft National Program for Rabies Prevention during the 2022-2030 period.

Over the past week, more than 1,000 pregnant women in Hà Nội have had their first shots

US Vice President Kamala Harris launched the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention Southeast Asia Regional Office in Hà Nội capital city at a ceremony on Wednesday during her three-day visit to the city.