Check out the news you should not miss today: Society — Vietnam on Thursday morning reported 159 new cases of COVID-19, including 132 cases in Ho Chi Minh City and the northern province of Bac Giang, increasing the country’s tally to 11,794, according to the Ministry of Health. — As of 5:00 pm on Wednesday, Vietnam’s COVID-19 Vaccine Fund had received over VND5.54 trillion (US$241.48 million) from 312,301 organizations and individuals, the Vietnam News Agency reported the same day. — Ho Chi Minh City had seen a total of 371 blockade points set up to curb the spread of COVID-19 as of 6:00 pm on Wednesday, according to the city’s Center for Disease Control. — The People's Committee of Bien Hoa City in southern Dong Nai Province early Thursday morning has expeditiously put the Big C Dong Nai supermarket in isolation over a COVID-19 case who had visited the venue lately. — The current two weeks of social distancing in Ho Chi Minh City is an opportunity for it to contain the spread of COVID-19 in the community, providing that all safety regulations are strictly implemented, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son said at a press meeting on Wednesday afternoon. — The north-central city of Vinh in Nghe An Province will have to follow social distancing measures under the prime minister’s Directive No. 15 from Thursday until further notice, as the province has reported four coronavirus cases since June 13, including one of an unknown source of infection. Lifestyle — The Department of Fine Arts, Photography, and Exhibition under the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism has launched a photo contest themed 'Vietnam Through the Lens of Foreign Photographers,' calling for works depicting the beauty of the country and its people. Sports — The Ministry of Health approved on Wednesday the proposal of the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City and the Vietnam Football Federation on shortening the quarantine time to seven days from 21 days …
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HCM City’s COVID-19 cases top 1,000 on Wednesday, Deputy Health Minister dismisses new variant rumour
Notice says the HCM City's Hospital for Tropical Diseases is stopping people from visiting patients after confirmed COVID-19 cases were reported there. — VNA/VNS Photo Thu Hương HÀ NỘI — A further 423 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Việt Nam on Wednesday, comprising 414 domestic and nine imported ones, according to the Ministry of Health. Of the locally transmitted infections, Bắc Giang logged 279 cases, HCM City 99, Bắc Ninh 27, Hà Tĩnh four, Nghệ An three, Hà Nam one and Bắc Kạn one. With 414 domestic cases, Wednesday saw the second highest daily increase. May 25 with 444 cases remains the day with the highest number of new locally-transmitted cases since April 27, marking the fourth wave of COVID-19 in Việt Nam. The number of confirmed cases in HCM City in the fourth wave on Wednesday topped 1,000, after the city recorded 99 cases today, the highest number since the pandemic began earlier last year Deputy Minister of Health Nguyễn Trường Sơn, who is leading the ministry’s special task force to support HCM City in COVID-19 prevention and control on Wednesday dismissed information that the rapid spread of COVID-19 in the city is due to a new variant of coronavirus. Sơn said that the ministry verified with HCM City’s Pasteur Institute and could confirm that cases in the city were infected with the Indian B.1617.2 variant, also known as the Delta variant, according to the results of genetic sequencing for samples taken from COVID-19 patients in the city. The health ministry today also worked with Việt Nam Vaccine Company to take the 288,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine the manufacturer delivered on May 25, 2021, to be distributed to outbreak hotspots in the country. Of the 45 locally-transmitted cases reported in HCM City on Wednesday evening, 12 cases have not had sources of infection identified while the other five cases related to the church cluster and two related to HCM City Hospital for Tropical Diseases and 26 cases are F1 of earlier …
Publishing industry must pursue trends of the times
That is the direction given by Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung to the publishing industry. Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung. Photo: Le Anh Dung Minister Nguyen Manh Hung recently met with top officials of the Department of Publishing, Printing and Distribution and publishing houses in Vietnam to discuss the industry’s development strategy for the 2021-2025 period. VietNamNet would like to introduce his speech presented at the event. People read fewer books than before, but the reading time has not fallen but has increased. But the time to read news and share information on the Internet has increased sharply. Thus, they spend less time on books. This is quite similar to the story of the press when social networks appeared. If the way of reading is different, the way of making books must be different, too. In the past, we had very few books, so the main thing was to have books to read. Now there are so many books, the main thing is to filter and find the right books to read. Each of the billions of people on the planet have a need to find the right books to solve their needs and problems. So what will our publishing industry do? In the past we had fewer problems, fewer concerns and, therefore, more time for books. We now have too many concerns, but the time is still 24 hours a day so the time spent on each issue is less. The time spent on books is also less. So should books have hundreds or thousands of pages? And if they must be that long, should there be shorter versions or search engines to help readers quickly grasp the main idea of books and then read them more carefully when they have time? A book is read by many readers, who read it by different means (and the mobile phone is increasingly predominant), so should there be different versions of the same book for different audiences? For different reading tools? Without technology, without digital environment, without e-books, …
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