Hcm city weather forecast

HCM City has been forecasted to experience severe inundation due to high tides. According to the Hydrometeorological Observatory of the Southern Region, HCM City would see high flood tides between December 3-5 with the peak to occur at 2-4 am and 5-7 pm every day. A street in HCM City seriously flooded due to flood tides The water level at the lower basin of Saigon and Dong Nai rivers has been on the rise. This late afternoon, the high tidal would put some streets in HCM City under water such as National Highway 50 and Pham Hung Road in Binh Chanh District and Le Van Luong and Huynh Tan Phat streets in Nha Be District. The flood tides would peak until December 5. The water level at Phu An Station on Saigon River and Nha Be Station on Dong Dien Canal would be 1.68-1.73 metres high. People have been advised to restrict their travel on roads that face the risk of being submerged because of the flood tides. …

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Doctors at Bình Thạnh No.1 Field Hospital in HCM City treat COVID-19 patients. VNA/VNS Photo HCM CITY — The HCM City Department of Health on Thursday asked all public hospitals in the city to set aside at least 10 per cent of hospital beds for treatment of COVID-19 patients amid a surge in hospitalisations and deaths and the emergence of the Omicron variant. Hospitals in the city have been asked to prepare medicine and medical devices for the clinical management of COVID-19. Designated isolation areas at hospitals are being shifted to COVID-19 treatment units, the department said in a document sent to leaders of hospitals. Hospitals have also been asked to restructure their operation to make it fit with requirements for COVID-19 treatment, and maintain health check-ups and treatment for other diseases. Tier-one general hospitals and specialised hospitals in pediatrics and infectious diseases have been asked to set up COVID-19 intensive care units to treat severe cases. A …

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Visitors at the HCM City Travel Fair last year. (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) - The annual Ho Chi Minh City Travel Fair will be held virtually for the first time from December 4 to 25, according to the city Department of Tourism . It will be held on websites of the fair, the department at www.visithcmc.vn, e-commerce site Shopee, and Traveloka app, Le Truong Hien Hoa, deputy director of the department, said. The festival, with the theme ‘Safe destinations- Fantastic itineraries’ this year and organised jointly with the HCM City Tourism Association, is aimed at reviving tourism as the country seeks to safely adapt to COVID. It will have more than 100 stalls put up by travel and tourism businesses and the tourism sectors of 27 cities and provinces, offering local travel products at discounted prices. Nguyen Thi Khanh, chairwoman of the HCM City Tourism Association, said travel firms will offer attractive discounts to revive demand after the COVID-related travel …

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The Management Board of the HCM City Green Transport Development Project has said there could be serious consequences if the city postpones the Bus Rapid Transit No 1 project. If municipal authorities decide to postpone BRT No 1 as per a proposal by the HCM City Transport Department, the World Bank (WB) will cancel a green transport development project, and funds from IDA (International Development Association) and SECO grant (technical assistance project) will end. If so, the BRT1-CS9 bidding package on “consulting to study the reorganization of the city-wide bus network and prepare an action plan to improve the efficiency and service quality of the existing bus system” as proposed by the city transport department won’t be implemented, unless the city uses its own money. The management board pointed out that the WB will stop capital to the project and the city will have to allocate a budget for the implementation of BRTI - CS9. The termination of the WB’s funding will …

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The suspects in the largest ever gambling ring discovered in HCM City. Photo courtesy of the HCM City Police HCM CITY — The HCM City police have busted what they said was the city’s largest ever online gambling ring, one that had carried out betting transactions worth nearly VNĐ90 trillion (US$3.94 billion). The police department’s cyber-security and hi-tech crime prevention division said on Thursday the ring had used crypto currencies worth at least VNĐ87.612 trillion and was led by Huỳnh Long Bạch, Huỳnh Long Nhu, Phạm Thị Mai Ngân, and Nguyễn Đắc Quý. The suspects confessed to using two websites, NAGA and Swift Finance, that acted as a link between gamblers and a foreign gambling server, Evo. They received commissions from gamblers. To lure gamblers, they even mentioned the websites on social media platforms with claims of possible large winnings, insurance and refunds if they lost. Gamblers needed to create an account and buy crypto currencies to make bets. When the …

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Many doctors and nurses in the Covid-19 epicentre of Ho Chi Minh City have left their jobs due to high work pressure. Many doctors and nurses in the Covid-19 epicentre of Ho Chi Minh City have left their jobs due to high work pressure. Illustrative photo Speaking at the recent meeting on Covid-19 treatment in the city, Chief of the municipal Health Department Office, Nguyen Thi Huynh Mai announced that as many as 968 health workers had resigned in the first 10 months of 2021. "In their resignation letter, most of the doctors and nurses explained that they had to stop work due to personal or family issues," the official said. However, the real reasons for many health workers seem to relate more to the high work pressure caused by the pandemic. Nguyen Thi Thuy just stopped working as a nurse at Cu Chi District Hospital. She said that the long working hours under high pressure during the recent Covid-19 outbreak had caused lots of physical and mental …

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The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health has just asked local hospitals to prepare for an increasing number of Covid-19 patients as fatalities have continued to rise. Local hospitals are asked to strictly follow Covid-19 prevention rules and spare at least 10% of beds for Covid-19 patients. The department has just sent urgent directions to local hospitals amid rising numbers of Covid-19-related deaths reported in the area and the threat of the new Omicron variant. Local hospitals are asked to strictly follow Covid-19 prevention rules and spare at least 10% of beds for Covid-19 patients. Some hospitals that have been switched to only provide treatment to Covid-19 patients including the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Trung Vuong, An Binh, and Cu Chi will continue. At present, these hospitals are operating a total of 4,300 beds. The department will continue to keep 13 field hospitals for Covid-19 treatment with a total of 22,000 beds. Each district will …

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Students attend school in Cần Giờ District’s Thạnh An island commune on October 20. HCM City secondary and high school students will be allowed to attend in-person classes with a varying number of lessons per week, depending on local COVID risk levels. – Photo tuoitre.vn HCM CITY – Secondary and high school students in HCM City will have 12 to 30 in-person lessons per week, depending on COVID-19 risk levels, when the city allows schools to reopen. According to the city Department of Education and Training, students attending schools in areas of low risk would have no more than 30 in-person lessons per week, while extra classes will be held online. Under the plan, schools in areas of medium risk would teach no more than 18 in-person lessons per week. These lessons will mainly be from the main curriculum and for tutoring purposes to make up for past online lessons. Students in the sixth, ninth and 12th grades in medium-risk areas will be allocated more in-person lessons, but no …

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Representative of Dien Bien province's People's Committee and Bamboo Airways at the launching ceremony of new flight route HCM City-Dien Bien. (Photo: VNA) Dien Bien (VNA) – A Bamboo Airways flight coded QH1592 departing from Ho Chi Minh City arrived at Dien Bien Phu airport in the northern province of Dien Bien on December 3, marking the launch of the first direct air service between HCM City and Dien Bien. Bamboo Airways said the carrier hopes the operation of the direct flight connecting big socio-economic centres with Dien Bien will promote investment and trade opportunities, thereby creating momentum for socio-economic development in the province in particular and the northwest region in general. tourists . It will help strengthen the exchange and connection between the two localities and other provinces in southern key economic regions, and attract more domestic and foreign visitors to the province, he said./. VNA …

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Speaking at the event, Director of the municipal Department of Education and Training Le Hong Son said the city has yet to issue policies and regulations for training establishments with international standards, especially public schools. Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan said the city’s labor productivity now triples the country’s average while the population accounts for 10 percent of the total but contributes to nearly 25 percent of the country’s gross regional domestic product (GRDP). In order to maintain its central role, the city needs to take the lead in improving workforce quality, he said, adding that it is the top out of the seven breakthrough programs to achieve rapid and sustainable development. He revealed that HCM City will work out specific action programs on international-standard workforce training in several areas, possibly in technology and artificial intelligence, automation and robotics, health, corporate governance, finance – …

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