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Vietnam is seeking different ways to get more vaccines and speeding up its inoculation campaign. The Sports and Fitness Industry Association (SFIA) in a letter sent to US President Joe Biden on Friday [Sept 24] proposed the Biden Administration send additional vaccines to their key apparel and footwear partners in Asia, particularly Vietnam. Vietnam's Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at the government meeting on Sept 25. Photo: VNA The vaccines will help their Vietnamese partners mitigate the impact on the industry as Vietnam is the second-largest supplier of footwear to the US behind China. SFIA made the proposal shortly after Biden announced that the US government would send 500 more million vaccine doses to developing and low-income countries. In his letter to the president, SFIA President and CEO Thomas Cove welcomed this news and highlighted the urgent need to expand these efforts in Vietnam. “Our industry has never experienced global disruptions and …

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A health worker collects swab samples from a man for COVID-19 testing in Hà Nội. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — The Ministry of Health reported 9,706 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday evening, in 34 provinces and cities. These include 9,682 domestic infections with 4,377 detected in the community. The number of locally transmitted cases increased by 1,152 compared to yesterday. A further 180 deaths were also reported in HCM City (123), Bình Dương (34), Đồng Nai (7), An Giang (3), Tiền Giang (3), Tây Ninh (3), Bến Tre (2), Đà Nẵng (2), Bình Thuận (1), Kiên Giang (1) and Cần Thơ (1). The total death toll from COVID-19 in Việt Nam now stands at 18,400. Hà Nội recorded only four cases in quarantined in facilities. HCM City reported the highest number of domestic cases today with 4,046, followed by the southern provinces of Bình Dương (3,629), Đồng Nai (996) and Long An (193). Other cases were found in Bình Phước (147), An Giang (117), Kiên Giang …

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Vietnam confirmed an additional 9,706 Covid-19 infections on Saturday and 10,590 patients were discharged from hospital following their recovery the same day, according to the Ministry of Health. According to the ministry's report, 9,682 of the new patients are locally-transmitted cases confirmed in 34 localities including HCM City (4,046), Binh Duong (3,629), Dong Nai (996), Long An (193), Binh Phuoc (147), An Giang (117), Kien Giang (91), and Tien Giang (81). There were 24 imported patients confirmed today. The new infection number showed an increase of 1,152 cases compared to yesterday's figure. There were 4,377 infections found in the community. As of Saturday evening, 742,174 infections have been reported since the new outbreak occurred in the country in late April, with some southern localities recording high infections such as HCM City (366,539), Binh Duong (196,864), Dong Nai (44,921), Long An (31,618), and Tien Giang (13.724). The outbreak has so far spread to 62 out of …

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Authorities of many big cities and provinces in Vietnam have apparently ignored a call by medical experts to stop mass COVID-19 testing, since the strategy is expensive and almost helpless in the current developments of the disease. The administration of Ho Chi Minh City has completed three campaigns of citywide COVID-19 testing since a new wave of infections hit Vietnam on April 27 and is going on with a fourth testing phase through September 30. So far, the city’s health workers, divided into 1,533 teams, have collected a total of two million real-time RT-PCR samples and over 9.5 million others using the rapid antigen testing method. In the fourth stage, residents of areas at very high and high risk in the southern city are tested every two days in one week, while people living in the remaining areas are subject to testing every four days during an eight-day period, from September 20. To facilitate the testing drive, the city has sought reinforcements of 1,000 medical …

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A Vietnam court has given capital punishment to a man who shot and killed an anti-drug police officer in the northern province of Thanh Hoa in February. The provincial People’s Court on Friday sentenced 40-year-old Sung A Chia to death on charges of murder while giving life imprisonment to his three accomplices, Sung A Tong, Thao A Minh and Phang A Pao, aged 21 to 30, for the same offense. All the four men resided in the province’s Muong Lat District. On February 6, the district police unit assigned five officers, including Major Vi Van Luan, to conduct patrols to detect people engaged in storage, transport and trade of drugs. When the team came to Muong Ly Commune, they spotted Chia and Tong standing on a road, with guns in their hands. The team, with Luan taking the lead, approached the two suspicious men and asked them to show their personal papers in suspecting that they were drug traffickers. Chia suddenly fired a bullet at Luan’s chest while Tong also opened fire …

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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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Illustrative image (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - Retail petrol prices increased by more than 500 VND per litre from 3pm on September 25 following the latest adjustment by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Finance . The retail price of E5RON92 bio-fuel increased 573 VND to a maximum of 20,716 VND (0.91 USD) per litre, while that of RON95-III rose 548 VND to no more than 21,945 VND per litre. The prices of diesel 0.05S and kerosene, meanwhile, went up 564 VND and 561 VND to 16,586 VND and 15,643 VND per litre, respectively. According to the two ministries, the prices of petrol and oil in the global market have been rising for 15 days, resulting in the domestic price hike this time. They review fuel prices every 15 days to keep domestic prices in line with the global market./. VNA …

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National ssembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue will chair a a seminar to consult experts on socio-economic issues. (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The Office of the National Assembly (NA) in collaboration with NA’s Committee for Economic Affairs will organise a seminar to consult experts on socio-economic issues under the chair of NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue and NA Vice Chairman Nguyen Duc Hai. According to the NA Office, the seminar will focus on assessing the developments of the global financial, investment, and trade in 2021 and the latest developments of the world economy, and forecast the impact on Vietnam. The evaluation of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the country's socio-economic situation, the implementation of the COVID-19 vaccination strategy, lessons learned in policy promulgation, recommendations and solutions for Vietnam from now until the end of the year and the following years of the 15th National Assembly will also be tabled for discussion. National Assembly …

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Illustrative image (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue has signed a resolution on the provision of support to labourers and employers affected by COVID-19 using the unemployment insurance fund . Under Resolution No. 03/2021/UBTVQH15, about 30 trillion VND (1.31 billion USD) from the fund will be used to support labourers who are covered by unemployment insurance as of September 30, 2021, excluding employees in State agencies, socio-political organisations, people’s armed forces and public non-business agencies who are paid by the State budget . Labourers who have stopped paying unemployment insurance due to the termination of their labour contracts or working contracts between January 1, 2020 and September 30, 2021, and have unemployment insurance premium payment period reserved in accordance with the employment law, are also eligible for the support, excluding retirees who receive monthly pensions. The support will be delivered …

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Ashley Griffith, an English teacher from Manchester, England, who currently works in Vietnam, runs a Tik Tok channel showcasing what he truly loves about living in Vietnam. Griffith first began documenting his life in Vietnam after a student shared that he wanted to move to England. “[My student] said ‘I want to move there because everything is better in England and people say Vietnam isn’t a good country’,” he said. “Hearing those words made me upset because I’m an Englishman who wholeheartedly loves Vietnam. After that, I decided to dedicate my Tik Tok to showcasing everything that I love about Vietnam, including the food, landscape, people, and even fashion. The list is endless. “Now, I hope that student can see how magnificent Vietnam truly is, and how many amazing opportunities there are on offer here,” he added. In the year since he’s launched his @ashlongvn on Tik Tok, Ashley Griffith has earned a fandom of more than 223,000 followers. 97 percent of his views come …

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