HCM City prepares to reopen traditional markets, wholesale markets from October 1

The HCM City Department of Industry and Trade has asked authorities in all 21 districts and Thủ Đức City to develop plans to reopen traditional markets and wholesale markets from October 1.

HCM City considers issuing 'vaccine green cards' HCM City is looking into a “vaccine green card” system to allow eligible residents to travel and work under fewer COVID-19 restrictions, facilitating the economy’s recovery, according to Phan Văn Mãi, chairman of the city People’s Committee.

Famed Phúc Trạch grapefruit sales suffer amid pandemic

Phúc Trạch grapefruit is said to be “the first famed fruit” of Hà Tĩnh’s Hương Khê mountainous district as it was used as a gift for Nguyễn Dynasty Kings from 1802 onwards, according to Phan Thị Ngọt, 90, a local of Phúc Trạch Village.

Migrant workers struggling to survive in pandemic

As the pandemic rages through the country, migrant workers in the city of Cần Thơ City are living hand to mouth and barely managing to survive

COVID-19 impact starts reflecting in seafood companies' results from August: VDSC

A recent report from Việt Dragon Securities Corporation (VDSC) said that the social distancing order in Việt Nam will negatively affect the supply of processed seafood in the last six months of the year due to reduced operating capacity at factories.

Hà Nội urged strict compliance with social distancing measures to curb virus spread1 On Saturday, Chairman of Hà Nội People's Committee Chu Ngọc Anh issued Dispatch No.19/CĐ/UBND officialising the extension of lockdown measures city-wide until September 6 as COVID-19 situation remains complicated.

A change in the strategy to deal with the pandemic required

Việt Nam is experiencing the heaviest outbreak ever: the number of cases has reached more than 300,000 and the death toll has been more than 7000.

Hà Nội extends lockdown until September 6 amid complicated COVID-19 situation

Hà Nội’s authorities decided on Friday to extend social distancing order until 6:00am of September 6, 2021, amid new COVID-19 infections in the community and complicated developments in many other localities.

HCM City applies stricter COVID-19 prevention measures from August 23

The HCM City will apply stricter COVID-19 prevention measures from 12am on August 23 as the number of cases continues to be high.

HCM City extends lockdown for another month, aims to reduce daily cases in early September to 2,000

HCM City will extend its strict social distancing measures for another month given the risk of a re-emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, Phan Văn Mãi, deputy secretary of the city Party Committee, said yesterday.