Ho chi minh city

A flight from Japan carrying 400,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine donated by the Japanese government arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday morning. The Japanese government had previously donated about 3.18 million COVID-19 vaccine jabs to Vietnam. Saturday’s batch has increased Japan's donations to roughly 3.58 million shots in total. Japan affirmed that the country will continue to cooperate with Vietnam to put the COVID-19 pandemic under control soon. On Thursday, Ho Chi Minh City received more than 620,000 Pfizer vaccine doses and 46,000 AstraZeneca shots allocated by the Ministry of Health to provide the second jabs to residents. The southern city is expediting its COVID-19 vaccination campaign to administer first doses to all of people from 18 years old and second doses to those having finished their intervals. Health workers have given over 6.8 million first doses and more than 2.2 million second shots to people in the city, according to the national …

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Chairwoman of the HCMC People’s Council Nguyen Thi Le speaks at the event. In addition, the district must build plans for major tasks, including prevention and control of the pandemic, economic recovery and social security activities. The Chairwoman of the municipal People’s Council also asked District 3 to take advantage of the remaining days of the social distancing period to continuously implement mass testing to identify F0 cases, make assessment of the current epidemiology in the district’s wards and quarters and adjust the district’s Covid-19 map. Besides, the locality must check and provide Covid-19 support for local people and disadvantaged children affected by the pandemic. Chairwoman of the HCMC People’s Council Nguyen Thi Le talks with delegates at the conference. She also highly appreciated the district’s efforts in the pandemic prevention and control activities, especially reducing the number of new cases and Covid-19 deaths. Chairwoman of the HCMC …

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People are brought back to their hometowns from Mien Dong Bus Station during social distancing. (Photo: SGGP) According to the HCMC Department of Transport, to create favorable conditions for workers to return to work when the city restores economic activities, the department has coordinated with relevant departments to develop a plan to ensure safety and comply with regulations on pandemic prevention. Subjects in the transportation plan are workers of HCMC-based enterprises and cooperatives, including workers and experts, in provinces and cities that need to return to HCMC. Accordingly, to return to HCMC, workers must meet the following conditions: they must have a work plan confirmed by enterprises or cooperatives in writing and be vaccinated with the first dose for at least 14 days or recovered from Covid-19 with confirmation by medical authority. They must have a negative Covid-19 test result that is still valid as prescribed. Workers must be allowed to travel by the …

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Taking samples for COVID-19 testing in Hanoi (Photo: VNA) Ho Chi Minh City, which is the country’s current largest pandemic hotspot, continued to report the highest number of infections with 4,046 cases, followed by neighbouring Binh Duong province (3,629), Dong Nai (996) and Long An (193). The capital city of Hanoi logged four cases during the day. The country has to date logged 746,678 COVID-19 cases. A total of 10,590 patients were given the all-clear on September 25, raising the total number of recoveries to 516,449. The death toll rose to 18,400 after an additional 180 deaths were announced on the same day. As of the end of September 24, over 37.58 million doses of vaccine were given to people so far, including more than 30.02 million first shots and 7.55 million second jabs. VNA …

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Addressing the event, Le Anh Tuan, Deputy Director of the COVID-19 Intensive Care Hospital, praised the support of the volunteers, adding that when the hospital was newly established, the timely presence of religious volunteers helped the hospital complete its mission of providing medical care for patients. Vice Chairwoman of the city’s Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee Phan Kieu Thanh Huong expressed her gratitude for the volunteers’ contributions to the pandemic fight, hoping that they will continue joining hands in pandemic prevention and control efforts to make the city soon return to the new normal. Three more similar events were also held across the city to honor religious volunteers. Since July 22, nearly 700 volunteers of different religious groups have taken part in COVID-19 prevention and control in various hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City. Source: VNA …

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* On September 24, the Binh Phuoc provincial Military Command handed over 500 gifts, totaling VND 150 million, to needy people in Bu Dang district. The gifts showed the care and responsibility of the troops towards the locals, helping them soon overcome consequences caused by the pandemic. * The Tuyen Quang provincial Fatherland Front Committee offered VND 1 billion, 1,000 sets of protective clothing, 1,750 3M face-masks, and 3,000 medical gloves to the Binh Thuan provincial Fatherland Front Committee to assist them in the COVID-19 fight. Addressing the event, Vice Chairman of the Binh Thuan provincial Fatherland Front Committee Nguyen Van Tri thanked Tuyen Quang province for the support, committing to soon distributing the medical supplies to COVID-19 treatment hospitals in the province. * Artillery Brigade 75 of Military Region 7 presented certificates of merit to 18 troops for their outstanding contribution to the fight against COVID-19. Reportedly, over the past month, more …

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* Ho Chi Minh City’s Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control held a press conference to provide information on the pandemic situation in the city. Reportedly, from 6 p.m. on September 22 to 6 p.m. on September 23, the city took more than 1.1 million samples for COVID-19 testing. This was a new record in the city’s day-to-day sampling speed to rapidly detect infected cases in the community. In addition, the city has administered more than 9 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine. So far, nearly 6.8 million people have received the first shot. * A delegation led by Secretary of the Binh Duong provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Loi visited and encouraged leaders and employees of businesses in the Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park No.2 in Thu Dau Mot city. On the same day, the delegation toured and inquired after the doctors and medical staff in Phuong Chi General Hospital (Thu Dau Mot city) who are treating COVID-19 patients. * The People’s Committee of Tan Thanh …

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Ho Chi Minh City led the day's tally with 4,046 new cases, followed by Binh Duong (3,629) and Dong Nai (996). 180 deaths were recorded on Saturday, including 123 in HCMC, 34 in its neighbor Binh Duong and seven in Dong Nai. Other deaths were recorded in An Giang, Tien Giang and Tay Ninh (three each), Ben Tre and Da Nang ( two each), Binh Thuan, Kien Giang and Can Tho (one each). The national death rate over the past week has been 220 a day on average. The coronavirus death toll in Vietnam so far is 18,400. Also on Saturday, 10,590 Covid-19 patients were announced recovered, bringing the total tally of recovered cases so far to 516,449. The country has vaccinated over 37 million people with at least one Covid-19 vaccine shot. Over 7.5 million have been fully vaccinated. …

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The resumption of domestic flights would be divided into four phases, according to a draft on the plan to resume transportation across localities with relaxed Covid-19 restrictions discussed Saturday. In the first phase, to be carried out in no more than 10 days, airlines would be allowed to resume air routes with a flight frequency not exceeding half that in the first 10 days of April, the time before the fourth coronavirus wave hit Vietnam. Seats on the planes must be distanced as well. In the second phase, also to be carried out in no more than 10 days, the frequency would be increased to not exceed 70 percent. The third phase would see flight frequency return to the level as seen in the first week of April (but not exceeding it), with no seat distancing required. The final phase would see airlines resume activities as normal. Air routes that had only one flight a day even pre-pandemic can resume operations as normal in all phases, with seat distancing required. …

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The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism is finalizing the draft code of conduct for Vietnamese artists. On September 10, the General Administration of State Administration of Radio, Television and Movies of China issued new rules for artists who perform advertising activities and act as the face of brands. According to the new regulations, Chinese artists who commit wrong behaviors are subject to administrative fines and banned from being involved in advertising activities for three years. That’s in China. How about Vietnam? Two months ago, several Vietnamese celebrities were criticized by the public for exaggerating the functions and effectiveness of products they advertised, mainly cosmetics, dietary supplements to support fat loss and treatment of stomach cancer, fibroids, cysts, sore throats. Only after the media raised its voice did some of the celebrities such as actor and event host Quyen Linh, People’s Artist Hong Van, Miss Vietnam Mai Phuong Thuy, …

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