COVID-19 deaths on the rise in HCM City HCM City is seeing a rising number of COVID-19 deaths, recording up to 70 COVID-19 deaths daily in the last week, around three times higher than the figure in late October.

HCM City braced for Omicron variant of COVID: steering committee HCM City is prepared to cope with the Omicron variant of COVID-19 first detected by South Africa, Phạm Đức Hải, deputy head of the city Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control told a press meeting on November 29.

COVID cases rise across Mekong Delta region

The COVID-19 situation in Mekong Delta provinces remains complicated, with a rising number of daily cases and deaths.

HCM City to provide Favipiravir to COVID-19 patients instead of Molnupiravir HCM City will provide the antiviral drug Favipiravir to COVID-19 patients for treatment in place of Molnupiravir since stock of the latter is running low across the city.

Localities urged to strengthen control over COVID-19 and winter-spring communicable diseases

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. 

An Giang’s primary school children to have one-week break from online learning Authorities in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang have announced online classes for primary students will be halted for a week, from November 29 to December 5, 2021.

75 per cent of people dying from COVID over three days in HCM City were unvaccinated Seventy-five per cent of 151 people who died of COVID-19 in HCM City from November 19-21 were either unvaccinated or had received only one vaccine dose, according to the city Department of Health.

VNA General Director delivers speech at 4th World Media Summit General Director of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) Vũ Việt Trang attended and delivered a speech at the 4th World Media Summit (WMS) which was held via videoconference on November 22.

In-person classes resume for ninth graders in parts of Hà Nội

Ninth graders in ten of Hà Nội’s suburban districts returned to school on Monday.

Deputy PM Đam instructs HCM City to focus on COVID variants HCM City should pay attention to new COVID-19 variants and strengthen testing in high-risk areas such as traditional markets and malls, Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam told a meeting with city authorities on November 18.