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At the event, General Chanyalat congratulated General Giang on being appointed Defense Minister and thanked the Vietnamese defense ministry for providing timely support for the Lao defense ministry in COVID-19 prevention and control by sending experts and medical supplies to Laos. For his part, General Giang congratulated General Chanyalath on his appointments as Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister of the Lao People's Democratic Republic. He expressed his sympathy towards the Lao people over the difficulties they are currently facing due to COVID-19, and lauded the efforts of the Lao Government, army and people in overcoming these difficult times to quickly stabilize people’s lives. The Party, State, and military of Vietnam attach special importance to the great friendship, special solidarity, and comprehensive cooperation with Laos, with defense and military partnership being a top priority, he stressed. At the talk, the two defense ministers briefed each other on the socio-economic development and defense-security situation in their countries. They agreed that amid the substantial opportunities and challenges, the Parties, States, militaries, and peoples of both countries should continue to maintain and reinforce their traditional friendship and special solidarity, especially defense cooperation. Despite the complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic, the defense partnership between the two countries has been thriving, focusing on areas such as border management, COVID-19 prevention and control, and personnel training, they noted. The two ministers concurred that in the future, as the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to remain a complex issue that will affect the implementation of the signed cooperation plan for 2021, both sides should seek cooperation approaches suitable for the circumstances, focusing on a number of areas, such as Party-political work, personnel training, border management, as well as fight against trans-national crime, …

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The software will help compile lists of voters, print out voter cards, report on the progress of voting, collect voting results, and prepare reports for election boards and committees, in the forms regulated by the National Election Council. Vo Van Thanh, head of the Information Technology Desk at the municipal Department of Information and Communications, said the software will connect the municipal Election Committee with Thu Duc city, 21 districts and 312 wards, communes and towns, and is expected to update information every two hours. The department will send technicians to help the People’s Committees of Thu Duc city and 21 districts use the software. A further trial is expected on May 14 before the software is officially put into operation on election day, May 23. Source: VNA …

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Medical worker dies after coronavirus vaccination The Saigon Times A medical worker holds a vial containing AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine. A 35-year-old medical worker at the Tan Chau General Hospital in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang has died after getting vaccinated against Covid-19 – PHOTO: VNA HCMC – A 35-year-old medical worker at the Tan Chau General Hospital in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang has died after getting vaccinated against Covid-19. This is the first death linked to Covid-19 vaccine in Vietnam, the Ministry of Health confirmed this evening, May 7. The specialist council of the provincial Department of Health concluded: “She died of anaphylactic shock on people with allergic reactions to non-steroid. Such a case is rare in the Covid-19 vaccination campaign,” reported the local media. According to Tu Quoc Tuan, director of the provincial Department of Health, she was vaccinated on the morning of May 6 at the hospital. Before getting a shot of the vaccine, she underwent a screening examination and was informed of possible post-vaccination reactions. After being vaccinated, she showed anaphylactic reactions and the hospital handled her case in line with the healthcare sector’s guidelines. The hospital also held an online consultation with the An Giang Provincial General Hospital and Cho Ray Hospital in HCMC to promptly cope with the situation. The patient was immediately transferred to the An Giang Provincial General Hospital. The Ministry of Health asked the Cho Ray Hospital to dispatch its intensive care specialists to the provincial hospital to assist with the emergency treatment of the patient. However, she succumbed today. Minister of Health, Nguyen Thanh Long, contacted her family and the Covid-19 frontliners in An Giang to express his condolences on the passing of the medical worker. Vietnam started its Covid-19 inoculation campaign using the Covid-19 vaccine produced by British drugmaker AstraZeneca on …

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