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Residents in Buôn Ma Thuột City are tested for COVID-19 after 98 community infection cases were detected on Sunday. — VNA/VNS Photo Tuấn Anh HÀ NỘI — Minister of Health Nguyễn Thanh Long urged localities to raise their vigilance as the risk of further COVID-19 outbreaks is very high in the near future. Localities are told to implement drastic measures to prevent a new wave of COVID-19 infections. Speaking at an online conference on Resolution 128, which provides temporary guidance on safe adaptation, flexibility and effective control of the pandemic on Sunday, Long said the pandemic has been basically put under control in key areas in HCM City and neighbouring Bình Dương, Long An, and Đồng Nai provinces. However, the number of people travelling from pandemic-affected areas to other localities increased after social distancing measures were eased. New clusters have appeared with the infection source mainly from people returning from pandemic-hit areas. Phú Thọ, Thanh …

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HCM City (VNS/VNA) - A TV series featuring doctors and frontline workers in the fight against COVID-19 will air in February. health workers have faced during the pandemic. A poster for Shipper - Ban Menh Thien Than (Shippers), a TV series featuring doctors and frontline workers in Vietnam in the fight against COVID-19 . The 15-episode show is directed by Huynh Tuan Anh and will air on Vietnam Television in February. (Photo courtesy of the producer) People’s daily life and difficulties in quarantine zones are also featured. The show's themes focus on love, unity, mercy, energy and belief. Ban Menh Thien Than features Meritorious Artists and theatre actresses My Duyen and Tuyet Thu as lead characters. Miss Asia USA 2006 Jennifer Pham and fashion model Phuong Linh are included. VNA …

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Thu Duc City will begin Covid-19 vaccination drive for children next Monday. (Photo: SGGP) Students will be vaccinated at schools or vaccination sites that were chosen prior. Children who do not go to school will get a dose of Covid-19 vaccine at fixed or mobile vaccination sites in districts and Thu Duc City. Children underlying health conditions and child patients will be vaccinated at children hospitals or the pediatric department of hospitals. At first, the municipal authorities will offer the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine to teenagers aged 16-17 and then mandate vaccine for different age groups of 14-15 and 12-13. Covid-19 vaccine licensed for use has been approved by the Ministry of Health. Each person will be offered two doses of the same vaccine. The HCMC People’s Committee has delegated the municipal Department of Training and Education to make the list of 6th-12th grade students; and the Department of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs to list children aged …

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At the launch ceremony At the launch ceremony, Vice Chairman of Thu Duc City People's Committee Nguyen Ky Phung emphasized that Thu Duc City was established with great expectations of Ho Chi Minh City's leaders. The city was chosen to develop into a creative nucleus, becoming a leading economic sector and center of economy and innovative technologies. The city will gradually be developed into an innovative and highly interactive urban area of Ho Chi Minh City. During the complicated development of the Covid-19 epidemic, the IOC of Thu Duc City has supported the leaders of Thu Duc City in directing disease prevention and control on the basis of data analysis through the GIS application for disease management, spatial analysis, and reports about statistics. However, after its establishment, Thu Duc City has had a fragmented data situation, sporadic connection and consistency. Thu Duc City authority expected to build an unified data system that can be linked with industries to …

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Restaurants in HCMC are allowed to resume their indoor capacity to 50 percent The city authorities today announced the level of the epidemic in the city according to Resolution 128/NQ-CP and Decision 4800 of the Ministry of Health on temporary guidance on safe and flexible adaptation to the new situation and effective control of the Covid-19 epidemic. The municipal People's Committee said that the assessment results of the level of Covid-19 epidemic in the country's largest city until October 24 show that it reached the second level. Districts 1, 7, 8, 10, Go Vap, Tan Binh, Can Gio, Cu Chi, Thu Duc City reached the first level while Districts 3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, Binh Chanh, Binh Thanh, Phu Nhuan, Tan Phu, Hoc Mon and Nha Be districts are ranked at the second level. Only Binh Tan District is at the third level. By Thanh An - Translated by Anh Quan TAG : HCMC second level of Covid-19 People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City …

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According to the assessment, the city is ranked at the second level of epidemic risk (or medium risk); therefore, administrative solutions and other social activities will continue to be easing regulations for the new normal when the city reaches the first level (or low risk). The city can achieve such good results thanks to various drastic and synchronous solutions under the direction of the Government, the National Steering Committee for Disease Prevention and Control, the Ministry of Health, and the Ho Chi Minh City Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control. Moreover, governments in all districts, departments, socio-political organizations, voluntary organizations, and people from all walks of life are united and determined to fight the epidemic. Currently, the number of new cases in the city has decreased but is still high thankfully, the vaccination rate of people over 18 years old in the city has reached 99.12 percent, and especially the rate of full dose …

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The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam last week proposed the launching of pilot flights to carry foreign tourists to several tourist destinations like Phu Quoc, Khanh Hoa and Quang Ninh from this quarter onwards. Passengers would be quarantined at a designated hotel for seven days upon arrival in Vietnam. In the first month, there would be one international flight a day, with around 4,000 to 6,000 foreign tourists allowed to visit the country. The flight frequency would be increased to two per day in the next months. Dr. Bui Doan Ne, general secretary of Vietnam Aviation Business Association, said the plan would not be feasible with the seven-day centralized quarantine rule. "No foreign tourist would sacrifice seven days of a holiday to be isolated in a hotel," he said. From October 10-20, when some domestic routes were resumed under a trial phase, the seat occupancy rate was just 30-50 percent. Several flights were nearly empty, forcing carriers to cancel flights and avoid …

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At 6.40 am on August 15, through the Hue-S system, Hue City Smart City Monitoring Center received images from local residents that showed a man jumping from a train and running to Alley No 128 off Phan Chu Trinh Street in Hue City. The man was discovered quickly thanks to information from the public. He resided in Thuy Bieu Ward. In an attempt to evade the required concentrated quarantine, the man took a train from Kim Lien Station in Da Nang City and detrained, where he waited for his girlfriend to pick him up. The two individuals were taken to the local clinic, where they had to follow anti-pandemic measures. This was just one of the cases that show the efficiency of the use of technology in urban management. Director of the Thua Thien - Hue Information and Communications Department Nguyen Xuan Son said when the pandemic broke out, the province’s leaders asked to apply technology to disseminate information about Covid-19 prevention and control. There are two major …

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An additional 3,639 Covid-19 infections were confirmed in the past 24 hours in 53 localities in Vietnam, the Ministry of Health reported on Monday evening. According to the ministry's report, 3,620 of the new patients are locally-transmitted cases confirmed in 53 localities including HCM City (969), Binh Duong (517), Dong Nai (458), An Giang (232), Tay Ninh (163), Bac Lieu (156), Tien Giang (111), Kien Giang (99), and Soc Trang (87). There were 19 imported patients confirmed today. The new infections showed a decrease of 408 cases compared to yesterday's figure. There were 1,573 infections found in the community. As of Monday evening, 887,797 infections have been reported since the new outbreak occurred in the country in late April. Some localities that have recorded the highest number of patients include HCM City (426,090), Binh Duong (229,357), Dong Nai (61,990), Long An (34,301), and Tien Giang (15,737). The outbreak has so far spread to 62 out of 63 cities and provinces …

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Electronics components being manufactured at 4P Limited Co in the northern province of Hung Yen. — VNA/VNS Photo Pham Kien Viet Nam’s electronics industry, an increasingly important sector of the country’s economy, continues to grow despite the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT). Amid the pandemic, the sector brought home US$77.58 billion over the past nine months of 2021, statistics from the General Department of Customs showed. Of this, the export of handsets and components contributed $41.02 billion, up 11.5 per cent year-on-year. Among major export markets were China with a turnover of $9.8 billion, up 52 per cent, the US with a value of $7.09 billion, up 1.1 per cent and the EU with $5.56 billion, down 18 per cent. Meanwhile, the export value of electronics, computers and components topped $36.56 billion, surging 13.6 per cent over the same period of last year with $9.3 billion from exports to the US, up 26.5 …

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