Ho chi minh city 1 week

The poor, families under preferential treatment and some prioritized groups approved by the government need to be inoculated with the Covid-19 vaccine quickly, Phuc told a Tuesday meeting. Earlier, the government had approved a list of prioritized groups to be vaccinated against Covid-19, which included frontline workers and military, police forces. Others in the priority list are teachers, diplomatic personnel, customs and immigration officers, those working in essential services like transport, people aged 65 and above, and those with chronic diseases that make them more vulnerable to the disease. People who are seeking to study or work abroad or are living in pandemic-hit areas are also listed. While the production of domestic vaccines is underway, the government has speeded up foreign procurement to inoculate prioritized groups. It has ordered 30 million doses from AstraZeneca, with the first batch of 117,600 arriving in Ho Chi Minh City on a flight from Seoul last Wednesday, to be administered to medical workers, contact tracers and officials on Covid-19 prevention and control committees, among other frontline personnel. Vietnam is working with South Korea to evaluate the quality of the batch before starting a large-scale vaccination campaign to ensure absolute safety, Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said Saturday. Through Covax, a global mechanism for developing, manufacturing and procuring Covid-19 vaccines and supply for member countries, Vietnam would receive an additional 4.9 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine within the first half of this year as well as 33 million more in the third quarter. The government has said it is stepping up negotiations with vaccine manufacturers in the U.S., Russia and some other countries to ensure it could obtain a total 150 million doses to cover 70 percent of its population. It has approved the use of Moderna and Sputnik V. Vietnam, a country of 98 million people, has reported 849 community …

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In June last year, Ngo Dinh Vuong halted the operation of his garment factory in Quang Minh Industrial Park in Hanoi’s Dong Anh District due to the health crisis. The factory was opened in late 2018 and is the third to have been opened by Vuong in the northern region of the country since 2016. Then in July, the second factory, based in Hung Yen Province, faced the same plight, leaving the first factory operating moderately also in Hung Yen. The three factories are managed by Hoang Yen Garment and Trading JSC, established in 2016, where Vuong is the director. However, in early January, the two factories with halted operations began resuming operations as some big contracts have been landed with local and foreign experts. This would allow 800 workers to have incomes. “We are happy that all of our three factories are in full operations now,” Vuong told Nhan dan Online. Hoang Yen Company’s case is among more than 11,000 enterprises resuming operation in the first two months of this year nationwide. According to the General Statistics Office (GSO), also in the first two months of 2021, the economy saw 18,100 newly-established enterprises with total registered capital of VND334.8 trillion (US$14.55 billion), employing 172,800 new labourers – up 4% in the number of enterprises, 52.2% in capital, and 9.7% in the number of labourers as compared to those in the same period of last year. In particular, the average registered capital of each newly-established business in the two months of the year is VND18.5 billion (US$804,347), up 46.4% year-on-year. If an additional VND385.6 trillion (US$16.76 billion) registered by 6,500 operational enterprises is included, the total registered capital inserted into the economy in the first two months is VND720.4 trillion ($31.32 billion). In February, despite the Lunar New Year, the number of newly-established firms hit more than 8,000 registered at VND179.7 trillion (US$7.81 billion), down 20.3% in the number of enterprises …

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The Hanoitimes - Vietnam’s airlines have added more flights to Danang to airlift tourists out of the city, totaling about 130 flights from the city since July 26. Some 80,000 tourists are stuck in Danang and find ways to return home, each province and city is taking their own preventive measures while awaiting the prime minister's instructions. Each locality including Danang city is empowered to adopt their own measures to combat Covid-19. Photo: Zing As of July 26, flights from Danang to the provinces were still considered as regular flights. On the morning of July 27, flights to and from the city were still allowed. From 12am of July 28, six districts with around one million people in Danang have been put under lockdown and transport is banned to and from the city. On July 26, the medical quarantine unit of Danang airport requested air passengers leaving the city to make medical declaration before boarding. All airlines are required to provide the contact of passengers on each flight to the medical quarantine unit for checking. Vietjet requested passengers on flights departing from Danang during this period to make paper or electronic medical declaration at the airport. Vietnam Airlines, which operates 10 air routes from Danang to different localities, said the airplanes are thoroughly disinfected every day. Pre-boarding health check is conducted. Passengers are provided with face masks, gloves and antiseptic towels. Passengers are also required to wear face masks during the whole flight. All members of the flight crew have to wear medical protective gear. Passengers are applied safety measures and their health status is monitored after landing. On July 26, there were eight ferry flights (without passengers) taking off from Noi Bai airport to Danang to airlift passengers. Although no direction from the government has been issued, Noi Bai airport’s authorities have proactively arranged a special area to welcome passengers …

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