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HCMC expects to vaccinate 70% of adults against Covid by next month By Minh Duy A man is vaccinated against Covid-19. HCMC expects to vaccinate 70% of residents aged 18 and above in the city against Covid-19 by August - PHOTO: TUYET HOANG HCMC – HCMC expects to vaccinate 70% of its residents aged 18 and above against Covid-19 by August, while the Ministry of Health has asked the city to accelerate the vaccination drive and committed to supporting it with personnel to reach its target. The city currently has some 7.5 million adults. Some 22.23% of these people have received one shot. According to an urgent dispatch on Covid vaccinations during the stay-at-home period that the Ministry of Health has sent to the city, the city was allowed to simplify the vaccination procedures. The ministry asked HCMC to inoculate people aged from 18, prioritizing frontline medical workers, elderly people and those having underlying health conditions, and speed up the vaccination …

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The ideas of converting vacant industrial zones, construction sites, and low-yield cultivation lands of Hanoi into creative spaces bring high hope for improving the spiritual life of the Hanoians. Train District 4.0, a creative space on the basis of the old Gia Lam Train Factory, has become one of the most anticipated projects in the capital city. The old Gia Lam Train Factory would be an attactive creative space of the capital in the near future. Photo: VCCI Built in 1905 by the French to fix trains for their fast-developing Vietnamese colony, Gia Lam Train Factory was the first train factory in the then-French territory, which spanned modern-day Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. It later churned out weapons to fuel the country's independence fight, and then survived the onslaught of American bombers during the war. Enjoyed its heyday during the 1980s and 1990s, Gia Lam Railways was considered a symbol of the capital’s industrial revolution. It offered dozen …

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Dong Nai Province authorities escort 900 workers to return to Dak Lak Province. (Photo: SGGP) All these workers were taken to No Trang Long Ethnic Minority Boarding High School in Buon Ma Thuot City of Dak Lak Province to conduct a quick test and medical examinations before returning to the locality for isolation according to regulations. Here, the authorities of Dak Lak Province had prepared food and drinking water for these workers, and at the same time, requisitioned many classrooms to serve as places for them to rest. Despite being exhausted after a journey of nearly 400 kilometers by motorbike, Ma Chang, whose residence is in Krong Pak District, was extremely excited when he finally returned to his hometown. He said that he and his wife had worked in Dong Nai Province for more than seven years. Due to the pandemic, for more than a month, both of them had had no income. Because they no longer had money to stay, they decided to return to their hometown. Workers return …

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"I started testing myself ... about two months ago," she said. "I recently received the second jab. The first shot was about four weeks ago. Apart from feeling sore in my arm, I didn't have any reaction after the inoculation." A self-test for Covid-19 using free kits provided by the British government shows negative. Photo acquired by VnExpress. She said the government encourages people to test themselves at home and distributes free test kits at pharmacies and supermarkets and online. "I usually order online. Each time I order a box of seven kits and test every 24 hours. Delivery only takes one to two days. Everything is very fast, convenient and completely free." Testing at home is much faster and more convenient than at medical centers, she said. "The test takes 1-2 minutes and provides the results in 30 minutes. If positive, the kit will show two lines, negative is one line. "Then I submit the results to the government website and they will send the …

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In the first six months, profit also tripled year-on-year to VND16.7 trillion, while revenue surged 67 percent to nearly VND66.9 trillion. The company made over four million tons of raw steel in the first half, up 55 percent year-on-year. Hoa Phat stated it managed to "keep prices lower than global rates" even though material prices shot up in the first half. In husbandry, the company maintained its place as having the largest Australian cow herd in the country and eyes a herd of 450,000 this year. The company also provided around 730,000 eggs to the market each day. Its HPG ticker has risen 55 percent this year. …

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Leaving the place where she had been living and working for three years, Trinh and another nine friends from central Thanh Hoa Province were traveling on five motorbikes, their luggage including clothes, bread, and water. They left Binh Duong's Thuan An Town on July 25, only hours after deciding to flee. "I am returning to my hometown - I will come back when the pandemic is over," Trinh told her landlord. Six hours prior, she was lying in her room, surfing the internet to find a way to get home to Thanh Hoa. The neighborhood was deserted, as workers had left for their hometowns, while others were in quarantine. Trinh was yearning to be with her family, but that was next to impossible since all transportation was halt due to the raging pandemic. Having no job after the company was shut due to several Covid patients, Trinh had hunkered down for 20 days. The town where she lives has recorded more than 200 cases, while Binh Duong has logged 12,604 cases and undergone semi-lockdown. …

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Nam Dinh Vu Port In the first half of 2021, industrial real estate saw steady growth as foreign investors keep increasing local land funds, despite no less than two waves of COVID-19 hitting industrial parks (IPs) in the first half. These foreign investors include several big names such as multi-functional real estate developer Frasers Property Vietnam which has just announced its first IP project in Vietnam named Binh Duong IP. This IP will bring more than 200,000 square metres of factory space to the market over the next 6-7 years. ESR Cayman Limited (Hong Kong) and BW Industrial Development JSC have also recently established a joint venture (JV) to develop a modern IP named My Phuoc 4 IP in the north of Ho Chi Minh City, with an area of about 240,000sq.m intended for logistics and light industry. In a similar move, after setting up a JV for modern logistics real estate for Vietnam last October, SEA Logistic Partners and GLP – the largest warehouse operation investment and …

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A medical worker prepares a COVID-19 vaccine shot in the southern province of Long An. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — A further 8,622 domestically transmitted COVID-19 infections were recorded in Việt Nam on Friday, along with 27 imported cases in the past 24 hours, making this the second-highest daily increase in cases since the beginning of the pandemic, pushing the total in the fourth wave to 133,257. HCM City, the epicentre of the current outbreaks, continued to top the national case count with 4,282 new patients, bringing the southern city’s caseload to more than 86,000 since late April, as the authorities are set to extend current strict lockdown measures beyond August 1 for another one to two weeks. The next four localities with biggest daily increases are Bình Dương (1,920), Long An (469), Đồng Nai (360), and Tiền Giang (242) – all in the southern region which has also been placed under strict social distancing in line with the Government’s Directive 16 along with HCM …

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A police officer checks a delivery person in HCM City’s District 3. The city has created a database on delivery workers to ensure travel restrictions are not violated. — Photo thanhnien.vn HCM CITY — To ensure smooth delivery and distribution of essential goods amid the COVID-19 restrictions, the HCM City Department of Industry and Trade has created a database of delivery staff that can be easily accessed by inspectors and notified the public about businesses that sell essential products. It has apprised district authorities, the police and others about how to identify various people such as shippers working for delivery services and those supplying meals to hospitals, quarantine zones and other facilities, a key factor in combating the pandemic. People delivering for e-commerce companies need to be in uniforms and have a travel permit issued by their employers and employee identity card. Information about the shippers’ vehicles, address and delivery route are easily …

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New approach, new solutions necessary for long fight: PM Medics, volunteers battle to keep HCM City safe from coronavirus Stores work hard to follow limited operating hours Over 7,900 new COVID-19 cases reported on Tuesday 6,000 medical workers from all over Việt Nam volunteer to help deal with HCM City's outbreak Doctors at Chợ Rẫy Hospital in HCM City treat a patient with COVID-19. Photo courtesy of the hospital HCM CITY — Patients with locally acquired COVID-19 showing no symptoms, and with no underlying disease or obesity, will now be under a 14-day home quarantine, according to new guidelines released by the HCM City Department of Health on Thursday. New COVID-19 cases with manageable underlying diseases will also be quarantined at home for 14 days. The new guidelines aim to reduce the overload of COVID-19 patients at healthcare facilities and increase the quality of treatment for COVID-19 patients with moderate and severe symptoms in …

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