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"Patients 2422, 2423, 2425 and 2426" from Hai Duong were already in quarantine. They are being treated at field hospitals in the northern province. "Patient 2424" is a 24-year-old woman from Thoi Lai District, Can Tho City, who entered Vietnam illegally through the border at Hong Ngu District, Dong Thap Province on February 23 and was quarantined soon after. Her test results returned positive for the novel coronavirus on February 25. In the past 29 days, Vietnam has recorded 831 community transmissions in 13 localities. Hai Duong is the biggest hotspot with 647 cases, following by Quang Ninh with 61 and HCMC with 36. Ten of these localities haven’t recorded new community transmissions for the past 14 days. With the latest cases, the nation’s Covid-19 tally has increased to 2,426 with 1,839 recoveries and 35 deaths. …

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Buddhists pray online due to COVID-19 outbreak Blood shortage warned as donations postponed due to COVID-19 outbreaks The resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic in many cities and provinces in recent weeks has seriously affected the blood supply for medical treatment. Although many people and organisations responded to the call of blood donation by the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT) on February 19, the amount of blood received per day was still only a few hundred units while the average need for treatment each day is from 1,200 to 1,500 units. There is usually a shortage of blood during the Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday as the holiday lasts long while blood has a short shelf life and many patients still need blood transfusions during Tết. This year, the pandemic's resurgence has made the shortage after Tết even worse. Before Tết, 30 entities requested to postpone or cancel blood donation plans which meant the NIHBT missed out on receiving more than 8,000 units. After the holiday, the institute received information about the delay of 24 more blood donation plans from now to the end of March with an expected donation of 5,000 units. In addition, the blood donation schedule in March cannot be confirmed because it depends on the university and college's return to the school schedule. This means the blood reserves of the institute are decreasing. If this situation continues, blood reserves will decrease to an alarming threshold, fell into a state of scarcity and seriously affect the blood supply to health facilities. The Institute’s director Bạch Quốc Khánh said: “The estimated blood demand for emergency and treatment in February and March of the institute is about 50,000 units.” “With blood donation schedules maintained up to now, there was still a shortage of about 20,000 units, seriously affecting the provision of 177 medical facilities in 28 provinces and cities in the north with about 41 million …

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Both have recently sought the inclusion of domestic airports for them to boost tourism and socio-economic development in the national aviation development plan from now until 2030. Ninh Binh, 95 kilometers (60 miles) south of Hanoi, has sought permission to build the airport either in Kim Son or Yen Khanh District, less than 35 kilometers from the Tam Coc caves, a very popular tourist destination. Ha Giang wants the airport in Bac Quang District, 260 kilometers north of Hanoi, partly also for military use. Nguyen Bach Tung, an airport design researcher, said Ninh Binh might have seen a rise in the number of visitors in recent years but demand for traveling from people in the province is not high. Meanwhile, Tho Xuan airport in Thanh Hoa Province and Cat Bi airport in Hai Phong City are already designed to serve nearby provinces like Ninh Binh, Thai Binh, Nam Dinh, and Ha Nam. With expressways available, traveling from these airports to Ninh Binh should not be an issue, Tung pointed out. Besides, after 2030 Hanoi will get a second airport in its south, not far from Ninh Binh. Ninh Binh is situated in the flight path between Hanoi and southern and central localities, and an airport here could lead to collisions in routes, Tung said. Ha Giang does not get visitors all year round, only seasonally, and there is little local travel demand, he said. And it lacks the hundreds of hectares of flat land required to build an airport, he said. Another expert, who asked not to be named, said while Ninh Binh and Ha Giang are very popular destinations, tourists usually travel to a number of places in the northern mountains on a single trip since a road trip there is not difficult. So the two provinces’ claim their tourism requires airports is not convincing, he said. Tran Quang Chau, chairman of the Vietnam Association of Aviation Science and Technology, said planning for an airport in a province should factor in various criteria like size of economy, income …

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