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The robot is designed with a loading capacity of up to 100kg to automatically take food, medicine, necessities to Covid-19 patients’ rooms. The Vietnam Military Technical Academy under the Ministry of Defense has successfully manufactured a robot that can support health workers to take care of Covid-19 patients, VnExpress reported. Vietnam successfully produces Covid-19 patient assisting robot. Photo: VNE The robot, called Vibot-1a, was first piloted on April 7 in Hanoi’s Bac Thang Long Hospital, which is sheltering quarantined people patients. Here, it dispenses medicine for patients instead nurses. Not only that, it could say "thank you" and "wish" the patients to quickly recover. While moving from one place to another, the robot automatically plays songs to cheer up people in pandemic prevention. Colonel Tang Quoc Nam from the Military Technical Academy, head of the project, said that the robot was designed with a loading capacity of up to 100kg to …

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Vietnam confirmed an additional 10,011 Covid-19 infections on Sunday and 11,477 patients were discharged from hospital following their recovery the same day, according to the Ministry of Health. According to the ministry's report, all of the new patients are locally-transmitted cases confirmed in 35 localities including HCM City (5,121), Binh Duong (3,332), Dong Nai (746), Long An (171), Kien Giang (99), and An Giang (81). The new infection number showed an increase of 329 cases compared to yesterday's figure. There were 5,313 infections found in the community. As of Sunday evening, 752,185 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 (371,660), Binh Duong (200,196), Dong Nai (45,667), Long An (31,789), and Tien Giang (13,787). The outbreak has so far spread to 62 out of 63 cities and provinces nationwide. With these new infection cases, the …

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88 per cent of Vietnamese households negatively affected by COVID-19 HCM City businesses eager to resume, but regulation, worker availability worries linger 8,537 new COVID-19 cases recorded in Việt Nam on Friday Việt Nam successfully produces Sputnik V vaccine HCM City to shut some COVID field hospitals as patient numbers dwindle amid home treatment 58-year-old ambulance driver Đặng Tri Thông volunteers to take hundreds of COVID-19 patients in HCM City and Quảng Bình Province. — Photo courtesy of Đặng Tri Thông Khánh Dương HCM CITY — In early September, Đặng Tri Thông, a 58-year-old ambulance driver in the central province of Quảng Bình, shared on his Facebook page: “Myself and my son have officially become members of a team in charge of transporting COVID-19 suspected cases and patients. Anyone in need of help can call me.” That is the first task that Thông and his 24-year-old son took on when they returned to their hometown after a month …

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Hanh Nguyen, Founder and CEO of Deepcare Vietnam Datkham247 was developed by the Deepcare Vietnam Joint Stock Company, a reputable provider of technology solutions for proactive health care, telemedicine and primary health care in Vietnam. Deepcare Vietnam Founder and CEO Hanh Nguyen said he wants to use his experience of more than 15 years in the French healthcare sector to help his own country’s healthcare sector fix its problems. The Deepcare Vietnam Founder and CEO said he and his colleagues all realized that patients often have trouble finding the right hospital or clinic for their health problems, experience lengthy waiting times for test results and doctor’s appointments, go to the wrong place for health care and engage in unnecessary contacts at medical facilities, thereby risking infection. The healthcare management solution Datkham247 provides comprehensive solutions and platforms to support patients before, during and after examination. Specifically, the …

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The three localities with the highest numbers of new cases were Ho Chi Minh City with 5,121 cases and its neighboring provinces of Binh Duong with 3,332, and Dong Nai with 746. A total of 11,477 patients were announced recovered on Sunday, raising the total recoveries since the start of the pandemic to 572,926. Of more than 210,000 patients in hospitals, 4,321 are severe cases, according to the Health Ministry. Five months since the new wave hit Vietnam, community infections have been recorded in 62 out of the nation's 63 cities and provinces, with HCMC suffering the most, at 371,660 cases, followed by Binh Duong with 200,196 and Dong Nai with 45,667. The northern province of Cao Bang is the only Covid-free locality. In the epicenter HCMC, where mass testing has been conducted on recent days to prepare for reopening, the rate of people testing positive has dropped from 0.4 percent on Wednesday to 0.2 percent on Saturday, according to the HCMC Center for Disease Control. Also …

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A severely ill COVID patient is treated at the COVID Resuscitation Hospital in Thủ Đức City. Photo courtesy of the hospital HCM CITY — The HCM City Department of Health plans to gradually reduce the number of concentrated isolation areas and medical facilities for COVID treatment, and resume normal operation of hospitals which were previously designated to only treat COVID patients. According to the department, a number of hospitals are now ready to resume normal operation as the pandemic situation has improved. The hospitals will be thoroughly disinfected after COVID treatment ends. Since September 22, three general hospitals in District 7 and Cần Giờ and Củ Chi districts, considered “safe areas”, have resumed normal operation. “The hospitals no longer treat COVID-19 patients, but they maintain 10-20 beds for isolation purposes in case of suspected COVID cases, and have an oxygen system to promptly resuscitate critically ill patients who will be transferred to a …

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Two of the three cases confirmed today were in close contact with the first coronavirus patient in Hanoi. Vietnam on Saturday reported three more people infected with the novel coronavirus (nCoV), raising the tally of infected cases to 20 in the country which had reported no new case for 22 consecutive days. Hanoi is making efforts to prevent the spread of Covid-19 The three new patients are a 27-year-old man returning to the country on March 4 from Daegu – an epicenter in South Korea - and two people who were in close contact with Hanoi’s first coronavirus patient Nguyen Hong Nhung. The man coming from South Korea named P.T.V is now under treatment at Ninh Binh General Hospital. He was quarantined at a military school in the northern province of Ninh Binh right after arriving at Van Don International Airport in the northern province of Quang Ninh on March 4. Ten others who made contact with him at the quarantine place have been put under strict medical …

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Ho Chi Minh City highly appreciated the efforts of building the temporary guidance of the Covid-19 pandemic response strategy to safely and flexibly adapt to Covid-19 and effectively control the pandemic. However, the Southern economic hub proposed the Prime Minister to consider allowing the city to apply the specific regulations on reopening the economy. Besides, the city will collaborate with competent agencies to study the specific regulations and report to the PM. HCMC also proposed to the PM vaccine priority for the city and the Southern Key Economic Region to soon reach the vaccine coverage target. At an online meeting of the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control yesterday with 63 provinces, cities, 705 districts, 10,400 wards nationwide, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long introduced three obligated indexes and four levels of risk assessment. (Illustrative photo: SGGP) The four obligated indexes include at least 80 percent of …

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In a joint statement sent to Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh Saturday, eight business associations in Vietnam said the guidance does not take into account variations in the pandemic situation among different regions in the country and shows a lack of flexibility. The eight signatories to the statement were: the Food Transparency Association; Food and Foodstuff Association of Ho Chi Minh City; Association of High-Quality Vietnamese Products; Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association; Handicraft and Wood Industry Association of HCMC; Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers; Vietnam Plastics Association; and the Japan Business Association in Vietnam. The Health Ministry document says rules will be based on three main indicators of Covid-19 safety adaptation assessment and four levels of pandemic risk and corresponding response measures, including: low risk – new normal, medium risk, high risk and very high risk. The associations said the assessment indicators were "too …

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K1, Hung Vuong Hospital in HCM City, is a special sector where pregnant women who have severe and critical Covid-19 infections are treated. On a September day, doctor Hoang Le Minh Hien brought a box containing cards with pictures of newborns to give to Covid-19 infected mothers. Staying on life support, Tran Thi Thu Trang sat up, oxygen mask in one hand, card in the other, and stared lovingly at the picture of her son peacefully sleeping. The baby was born on August 25 and since then the mother had not been able to hold her baby in her arms. On the left corner of the card were some encouraging words from hospital director Dr. Hoang Thi Diem Tuyet: "You were very brave and strong bearing a child in this tough times. We wish you the strength to continue being brave and heal, to fight for your health and your child, so that you two can see each other again.” After receiving the card, the mother’s eyes lit up, like she was not feeling the pain anymore. In the following …

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