The Ministry of Health confirmed on Tuesday nearly 400 domestic coronavirus infections in Vietnam, the majority in a hotbed in the northern region and 90 in Ho Chi Minh City. A total of 398 local cases were reported across the country, including 204 in isolated areas, the health ministry said in a report the same day. Northern Bac Giang Province, which is the nation’s largest cluster, recorded 235 of the infections, while its neighbor Bac Ninh Province detected 55 patients. Ho Chi Minh City recorded 90 cases, Binh Duong logged 12, Ha Tinh Province reported three, Lang Son Province announced two, and Hanoi registered one. Vietnam has detected 7,997 community cases in 40 out of its 63 provinces and cities since the ongoing fourth virus wave broke out on April 27. Bac Giang is ahead with 4,401 patients, followed by Bac Ninh with 1,415, Ho Chi Minh City with 961, and Hanoi with 464. Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City on Monday decided to extend the enhanced social distancing measures having put in place since May 31 by two weeks to stall escalating community spread, as over 80 patients have been confirmed on a daily basis since the weekend. The Southeast Asian nation has reported 11,212 cumulative infections as of Tuesday evening, including 9,566 domestic and 1,646 imported cases, according to the health ministry’s data. The number of recovered patients has reached 4,543, including 303 announced on Tuesday, while 61 have died, most with severe pre-existing conditions. More than 4.8 million people have been tested in this fourth wave, the worst so far. Vietnam confirmed 106 community cases in the first wave from January 23 to April 16, 2020, 554 in the second from July 25 to December 1, 2020, and 910 in the third from January 28 to March 25, 2021. The country administered 54,328 AstraZeneca vaccine shots to medical staff and other frontline workers on Monday, taking the total to 1,552,651 doses since inoculation was rolled out on March 8. A …
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Harsh punishment imposed on owners of illegally-built houses along canals
A canal around HCM city Under the Department’s proposal, local administrations must urgently inspect and give tough fines on those who have breached the law to build their houses in the banks of rivers or canals. According to the municipal Department of Transport, approximately 3,533 temporary houses were built from rudimentary materials such as melaleuca poles, coconut poles, and concrete columns encroaching on the water flow of the waterway. These dilapidated houses along canals are at risk of falling into rivers and canals imposing a threat on people’s lives in the rainy season. District 8 is leading with 3,025 temporary houses, followed by Thu Duc City with 97 houses, District 4 with 97, outlying districts Nha Be and Can Gio with 62 houses and 55 houses. Hundreds of naturally formed canals in Ho Chi Minh City have been recently narrowed by housing projects These buildings are in poor repair; therefore, they are at high risk of collapsing into the river. The Center for Waterway Management of Ho Chi Minh City said that for the safety of people living in temporary houses on the banks of rivers, canals in the southern metropolis, the Waterway Management Center proposed to the Department of Transport of Ho Chi Minh City and local administrations in districts to issue warning against natural disasters in the rainy and stormy season. Simultaneously, local administrators must destroy these temporary houses and build new houses in resettlement areas for city dwellers’ safety and urban sight. Specifically, 30 dilapidated houses are located in Thu Duc city’s Thanh My Loi ward while Binh Trung Tay ward authority reported 36 temporary houses, An Phu ward with 8 houses, and Phuoc Long B ward with 23 houses. Wards 1 and 3 in District 4 reported 285 houses in poor repairs and district 8 with more than 3,000 houses without permission. Elsewhere in the city, Hoc Mon district’s announced four deteriorated houses, Cu Chi district’s Binh My commune with ramshackle …
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HCMC proposes buying, administering vaccine on dwellers
The municipal People's Committee has just submitted a report to the Prime Minister on the purchase and use of a Covid-19 vaccine as the Covid-19 epidemic in the large city has developed unpredictably with increasing infection cases plus new virus strains first reported in the UK and India. The city has mobilized many staff members and employees of different sectors including medical workers, local authorities, agencies, departments, dwellers in the fight against the epidemic. Currently, Ho Chi Minh City has over 7.2 million people aged 18 and over. Approximately 1.6 million workers and employees are working at enterprises and corporations in industrial parks; however, HCMC has been only allocated around 140,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine so far. 10,179 people in priority groups have been fully vaccinated while 64,366 people received one Covid-19 jab only. To achieve the goal of herd immunity with over 70 percent of the population being vaccinated against Covid-19 as soon as possible, the city must necessarily purchase Covid-19 vaccines. Following the Prime Minister’s direction "Fighting the epidemic like fighting the enemy”, the city People's Committee proposed the Prime Minister to allow businesses citywide to find vaccine sources in the world or hire competent enterprises to buy vaccines for vaccination. According to the city’s proposal, businesses should be allowed to hire medical facilities to administer the vaccine to employees upon the agreement between businesses and health care institutions. By Thanh An - Translated by Anh Quan …
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