A survey of 30 inpatient COVID-19 patients and patients who came for testing at the HCM City Hospital for Tropical Diseases showed that up to 24 patients were infected with sub-variant BA.5, followed by four patients with sub-variant BA.2 and one patient each with variant BA.1 and BA.4.
HCM City is urging districts with low COVID-19 vaccination rates for children to speed up their inoculation efforts to protect kids from the disease before the new school year in September.
Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính yesterday chaired a national virtual conference to review six months of implementing a project on the application of a population database, e-identification, and e-authentication.
The latest guidelines from the health ministry concerning the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of monkeypox still have not prescribed vaccines to the general public.
The Government leader stressed the significance of vaccination and urged ministries, agencies and localities, particularly the Ministry of Health, to step up communication work, as he was addressing the 17th meeting of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính stressed the need to ensure the stability of the macro-economy, markets, politics, and people’s material and spiritual life while chairing a regular government meeting on Wednesday.
Acting Minister of Health Đào Hồng Lan on Tuesday raised concerns about the risk of concurring diseases in Việt Nam in near future and urged COVID-19 vaccination be sped up to ensure medical material supplies.
According to the ministry’s latest COVID-19 risk level statistics, among over 10,600 communes and wards assessed, 90.7 per cent are identified as ‘green zones’, 7.8 per cent ‘yellow zones’, and only 1.5 per cent ‘red zones’.
Hà Nội is planning to upgrade its system of public loudspeakers by 2025 through a combination of artificial intelligence (AI) technology and big data processing technology (Big Data).
The number of patients being treated for COVID-19 at the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases has increased over the last two weeks, with many of them in a serious condition.
The World Health Organization (WHO) will continue to share information with Việt Nam on developments of monkeypox and support the country in the prevention and control of the disease, Dr. Socorro Escalante, Acting WHO Representative in Viet Nam, told the media on Tuesday.
More than 240 million vaccine doses have been administered in Việt Nam with large coverage of the first and second doses, which has greatly helped bring the pandemic under control nationwide.
The Government of Việt Nam is making efforts to get the routine immunisation for children back on track, said Rana Flowers, UNICEF Representative to Việt Nam.
The HCM City health sector has set up a task force to deal with multiple challenges it faces, such as the fight against both COVID and dengue disease, and shortages of medicines, equipment and medical staff.
HSBC Global Research expects Việt Nam to be among the region's top growing nations, as it was one of the world's few countries to record growth in two consecutive years since the pandemic.