Việt Nam News

Many spring festivals in the capital city of Hà Nội will be halted for the second straight year due to complicated COVID-19 development.

As cases rise, many COVID patients in Hà Nội treating at home have turned to holistic methods such as aromatherapy to relieve symptoms.

Cities and provinces are applying their own varying COVID-19 travel regulations, leaving people planning to visit their hometowns for Tết puzzled.

The new infections brought the country’s total caseload to 2,023,546, ranking 28th among 224 countries and territories across the world.

The capital Hà Nội surpassed 3,000 daily coronavirus cases for the first time, as 16,040 infections were recorded nationwide on Friday.

Vice Chairman of Hà Nội People’s Committee Chử Xuân Dũng has asked local authorities and health units to rearrange human resources to avoid COVID-19 cases failing to get timely treatment.

The Ministry of Health has requested the health departments of cities and provinces and health facilities nationwide to get ready for the possible spread of the Omicron variant during the Lunar New Year holiday.

The capital Hà Nội had a record 2,723 new COVID cases on Friday, as 16,278 infections were registered across the country in 59 localities.

The city of Hà Nội reported a record daily high of 2,499 new COVID-19 infections on Tuesday

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính has ordered the Ministry of Health to make plans to purchase COVID-19 vaccines for children aged 5-11 years.

According to the health ministry, more than 1.6 million doses were given on Thursday (December 30), bringing the total to more than 150.93 million doses, just six weeks after the country hit the 100 million mark on November 16.

The new instruction requires passengers going through countries, which have detected the new Omicron variant to take quick tests for SARS-CoV-2 before boarding and leaving the aircraft. 

The Ministry of Health has distributed 200,000 tablets of the antiviral drug Molnupiravir in Hà Nội as the number of infections in the capital city continue to increase.

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính has asked localities to speed up COVID-19 vaccinations as the pandemic rages on across the nation and infections continue to rise.

Hà Nội saw another record rise in new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday with 1,704 infections detected, as the county's fatalities topped 30,000.

Việt Nam’s daily COVID-19 vaccination rate in November is the third highest in the world, just after billion-population India and China, according to the health ministry.

The COVID-19 Resuscitation Hospital in Thủ Đức City plans to increase its hospital beds to 500 to cope with the rising number of severely ill COVID patients.