Preventive Medicine Centre of HCM City warned dengue, hand-foot and mouth disease, measles were increasing and threatening to be spread among children when a new school year came.  

Bình Thuận Province is preparing measures to prevent an outbreak of dengue fever in the peak rainy season.

Hà Nội reported 41 more dengue fever cases over the past week, according to the municipal Department of Health.

Students face several diseases at the beginning of the new school year, such as dengue fever, foot-hand-mouth disease, measles and flu, so epidemic prevention efforts should be strengthened, health experts warned.

The Ministry of Health is inspecting the preventive efforts in place against dengue fever in 16 provinces and cities where the disease is seeing an upward trend.

More than 600 people and officers of the central coastal city of Đà Nẵng were mobilised yesterday to clean up Phần Lăng Canal in An Khê District, following efforts made by the city’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment to dredge all canals and drainage systems.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has sent warning to provincial and city-level health departments, hospitals and health centres about the need to strengthen the monitoring of weather forecasts from the National Meteorological and Hydrological Forecast Centre and the implementation of medical examinations for people. 

Recent hot weather caused fires in Sơn Tiến Commune, in the central province of Hà Tĩnh, which then spread to the neighbouring province of Nghệ An, leaving damage in Khánh Sơn Commune.

HCM City’s People’s Committee has directed the city’s health department and districts’ people’s committees, in collaboration with agencies at all levels, to take measures to prevent the Ebola virus from entering the country, which has appeared in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

 The Cần Thơ Department of Health said there have been 213 cases of dengue fever in the city this year and 60 hotspots.