Covid 19 outbreak

Within just 12 hours starting 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, the southern city had recorded 2,433 new Covid-19 cases, according to the Ministry of Health. In the fourth coronavirus wave which hit Vietnam in late April, HCMC has recorded over 43,700 cases so far to become the heaviest hit locality in the country. Despite the rising case count, several positive signs have been seen, including the fact that no new cluster has been detected and almost all detected cases have been in quarantine zones and other locked down areas, the HCMC Center for Disease Control (CDC) said. Going forward, the city has prepared several scenarios for following up on the 15-day social distancing order imposed since July 9. The most appropriate option would be to continue social distancing measures, even ramping them up in certain areas, according to Phan Van Mai, deputy secretary of the HCMC Party Standing Committee. Stricter social distancing for another 7-10 days would help curb transmissions in the city and …

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Many people have left HCM City for their homes in Quang Ngai Province as the city is still under strict lockdown for Covid-19 prevention. Filling in medical declaration forms On July 22, Lieutenant Duong Hien Cong Luc, head of the traffic police team in Duc Pho, Quang Ngai Province, said the number of people returning from southern provinces, especially HCM City, by personal vehicles had surged in the past three days. On July 21 alone, the team at the checkpoint at Binh De Pass reported over 300 returnees. The team worked hard to regulate the traffic, guided people to fill in medical declaration forms and ensured preventive measures. The police in Quang Ngai sent many trucks to carry hundreds of the returnees' motorbikes to gathering places for disinfection. The returnees will recover their vehicles after their quarantine periods or ask their families to keep the vehicles. Nguyen Thi Than, who returned from HCM City, said due to Covid-19 and social distancing, …

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HCM City has asked the PM and the Ministry of Health to send thousands of doctors and nurses to help treat the rising number of Covid-19 patients at local hospitals. Collecting samples for Covid-19 test HCM City People's Committee Chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong sent the official request to the PM for human resources support. Phong requested 927 doctors, 4,137 nurses, and technicians. The city also requested 2,000 personnel to help with collecting test samples. Vice-Chairman of HCM City People's Committee Duong Anh Duc also sent an urgent document to the Ministry of Health, requesting to mobilise 1,000 doctors and 4,000 nurses from all hospitals in HCM City to help. As of now, the Ministry of Health has sent 1,936 medical staff from hospitals across Vietnam to HCM City. 1,601 lecturers and medical students were also sent to HCM City to help. Social distancing rules in HCM City will be further tightened to contain the spread. Even travelling inside the quarantine …

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Hanoi authorities on Wednesday announced that the second phase of the national high school graduation exam, which was initially slated for August 6-7, will be canceled due to concerns over the prevalence of COVID-19 in the community. Traditionally held in July, the national high school graduation exam is an annual assessment that 12th-grade students in Vietnam’s K-12 system are required to sit after they finish their studies. Results of the test are needed for graduation and to help universities and colleges enroll undergraduates. On account of the coronavirus, this year’s iteration of the exam is implemented in two phases. While the first, carried out on July 7-8, involved the majority of candidates, the second phase is intended for students who were unable to finish their tests because of the pandemic. In a recent guiding document, the Hanoi Department of Education and Training decided to pass all candidates who signed up for this year’s exam and did not get disciplined by …

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Traditional medicines used to assist COVID-19 treatment Health department proposes reduced hospitalisation time for mild COVID-19 cases HCM City hotels offer free rooms to frontline medical staff 40 more markets to reopen in HCM City this week Việt Nam determined to curb COVID-19 as number surpasses 40,000 mark People waiting to get vaccinated in a gymnasium in HCM City on July 22, 2021. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — Amid soaring coronavirus cases in Việt Nam as the fourth wave of infections ravages across the country, people have been getting up in arms about a privileged few who seem to be arranging opt-outs from lockdowns and jumping the vaccination queue, while the majority of the country diligently follows the rules. Earlier this week, HCM City’s Phú Nhuận District issued an administrative fine for a director of an environment service cooperative for issuing a pass to his daughter to freely navigate the city. Such passes should be reserved for garbage …

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COVID-19 infections near 100,000 as new daily record was broken again New checkpoints to ease congestion entering capital city HCM City, southern provinces tighten enforcement of COVID-19 regulations PM: home-grown vaccines must ensure safety, efficacy NA to include COVID-19 fight in first session’s resolution Residents in Lò Đúc Street, in Hà Nội's Hai Bà Trưng District, are tested for COVID-19. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — Hà Nội has developed plans to respond to a range of possible scenarios as the number of local COVID-19 infections increases, Deputy Secretary of the Hà Nội Party Committee Nguyễn Văn Phong has said. The city's agencies including health, industry, trade, education, and transportation have actively developed plans at different levels to deal with the pandemic if the situation becomes more complicated, he said at a press conference on Saturday morning. Nguyễn Đình Hưng, director of the city's Health Department, said Hà Nội …

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Vietnam’s history before the Doi Moi (renovation) period has proven that many experiments and reforms appeared from the grassroots, and now, during the Covid-19 epidemic, experiments and reforms have begun from Ho Chi Minh City. People gather in front of a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City waiting for a rapid test. Photo: Thanh Tung/VietNamNet Quarantine at home Vietnam's anti-epidemic motto has long been "early detection, tracing, isolation, zoning and effective treatment", recently added with "5K + vaccine" (5k = Khau trang (facemask)- Khu khuan (disinfection) - Khoang cach (distance) - Khong tu tap (no gathering) – Khai bao y te (health declaration). Accordingly, F0 cases (Covid-19 patients) and F1 cases (those who have contacts with F0) will be screened and be sent to concentrated quarantine centers to prevent the disease from spreading to the community. However, this strategy has been inappropriate to the new situation when the number of cases has rocketed …

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Phùng Đức Tiến At present, 19 southern provinces and cities are implementing social distancing according to Directive 16 to prevent and control the COVID-19 pandemic. This will affect the production, supply and consumption of agricultural products. However, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said that Viet Nam has an abundant supply of food. Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien spoke to local media about this issue. What is the current situation of agricultural production and supply? The agricultural sector ensures an abundant supply of food. The problem now is the circulation of goods. Implementing social distancing measures creates difficulties in transporting agricultural products so the price of chickens at farms in the South has decreased from VND28,000 per kilo to VND11,000 and pigs at farms in Dong Nai cannot be distributed. Therefore, there needs to be synchronous distribution to promote the consumption of …

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A worker at Lecas' factory during the fourth wave of COVID-19 outbreak. VNS Photo Viet Thang Even though efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 have helped the country’s footwear and handbag industry attract more orders from international brands, it has still been hit hard by the pandemic in many aspects. The industry, which is considered to be one of the driving forces for Viet Nam economic growth, even recorded double-digit growth in footwear export turnover in the first five months of the year. Statistics from the General Department of Viet Nam Customs showed that during this period, the country’s export turnover of footwear rose 25.4 per cent compared to the same period last year to nearly US8.4 billion, while the export turnover of handbags also grew 5.9 per cent to nearly $1.4 billion. Footwear is one of six industries posting export turnover of more than US$5 billion in the first five months of 2021. However, the footwear and handbag industry has been heavily …

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Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s current Covid-19 epicenter, currently operates 35 Covid-19 hospitals that offer more than 59,000 beds, including 13 field hospitals. As of Thursday, the city has recorded 43,776 cases so far in the new wave that broke out in Vietnam in late April. Since the beginning of the year, 4,800 patients have been discharged from hospital. "Based on the current treatment situation, the number of people discharged from hospital in the near future will increase and could total more than 1,000 people per day," Nguyen Huu Hung, deputy director of the city’s Health Department, told a meeting Wednesday. Starting last week, the city had decided to cut the hospitalization period for uncritical Covid-19 cases. After staying at a hospital for a week, patients would be tested, and if the result is negative or shows a low viral concentration, be sent home two days later. Once at home, all patients would be monitored and must follow health authority guidance and be …

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