Việt Nam News

It’s a time of distress. A time of anxiety. A time of exhaustion. But it’s also a time for unity and social responsibility.

Alongside teaching chamber music and lecturing master classes, 31-year-old cellist Phan Đỗ Phúc has initiated “Schubert in a Mug” – a music project featuring concerts with the aim to bring classical performers and audiences closer together and still thrives amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Việt Nam’s domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine, Nano Covax, willbegin Phase 3 of clinical trials in June involving up to 13,000 volunteers.

A further 1,682,000 doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine from the global vaccine sharing scheme COVAX arrived in Việt Nam on Sunday.

Director of Đà Nẵng General Hospital, Dr Lê Đức Nhân, said it was the first severe shock after the second COVID-19 vaccination programme for medical workers between May 5-10 in the city.

A total of 851,513 people in Việt Nam have been given COVID-19 vaccine shots to date, according to Monday’s report from the National Expanded Programme on Immunisation (NEPI).

Minister of Health Nguyễn Thanh Long has received their AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine Thursday morning at Bạch Mai Hospital in Hà Nội.

The Vietnamese health ministry has recently issued guidelines on protocols for diagnosis and treatment of rare brain/abdomen blood clots in the setting of low levels of blood platelets occurring after COVID-19 vaccinations.