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Two north-south trains to resume operations The Saigon Times A passenger train is parked at a station. The operations of the SE3/SE4 trains on the Hanoi-HCMC route will resume on June 17 – PHOTO: VNA HCMC – The operations of the SE3/SE4 trains on the Hanoi-HCMC route will resume on June 17, according to a representative of the Hanoi Railway Transport JSC. The SE3 will depart from Hanoi station at 19:15 everyday, then stop at the stations in Thanh Hoa, Dong Hoi, Hue, Danang, Dieu Tri and Nha Trang before arriving at the Saigon station at 9:12 after almost 38 hours. On the Saigon-Hanoi route, the SE4 will leave Saigon station at 19:25 daily, stop over at the stations mentioned above and arrive at the Hanoi station at 8:30, after over 37 hours. Earlier, the local railway sector decided to suspend the operations of the SE3/SE4 from June 1 due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. With the resumption, the sector will operate the SE3/SE4 and SE7/SE8 trains on the north-south rail route everyday. A representative of the Vietnam Railway Corporation (VNR) said that the sector will strictly practice anti-virus measures when it offers its services, including using no more than 50% of each train’s seats, disinfecting carriages and equipping its trains and stations with an adequate amount of disinfectants. The VNR representative noted that passengers need to update Covid-19-related information posted on the websites of the localities’ health authorities before booking train tickets. Further, passengers are required to make health declarations before getting on board and wear masks during the trip. …

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Vietnam’s Covid-19 tally rises by 71 The Saigon Times Some people that have fully recovered from Covid-19 leave the hospital. Vietnam reported 71 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday morning - PHOTO: MINISTRY OF HEALTH HCMC - The Health Ministry announced 70 new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases in three localities and one imported case this morning, June 15, taking the country’s Covid-19 tally to 10,881. Bac Giang reported the biggest number of new Covid-19 patients with 28 cases, followed by HCMC with 23 and Bac Ninh with 19. They are people who had contact with previously confirmed patients and were detected in areas under lockdown or quarantine. The imported case is a man returning to Vietnam through the Moc Bai International Border Gate in the southern province of Tay Ninh on June 11. The country has reported 7,669 domestic Covid-19 infections in 40 cities and provinces during the fourth Covid-19 wave since late April. Nine localities have not seen new Covid-19 cases for one month. Nearly 4.8 million people have been tested for Covid-19, while over 1.5 million Covid-19 vaccine shots have been given to the citizens. In Bac Giang, the country’s biggest Covid-19 hotspot currently with 4,194 cases to date, 988 Covid-19 patients have fully recovered up to now, including 179 people discharged from the hospital on June 14. Le Anh Duong, chairman of Bac Giang, said the Covid-19 situation in the province is being put under control. The provincial government is determined to eliminate the pandemic and resume all business and production activities by June 21. According to Tran Van Ha, deputy director of the Bac Giang Province Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, the province is collaborating with other localities such as Lang Son, Son La, Vinh Phuc, Tuyen Quang, Nam Dinh and Thai Binh to help workers that are temporarily unemployed to come back to their hometown. These workers must test negative for Covid-19 before returning home …

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Two women die of Covid-19 The Saigon Times A Covid-19 patient is under treatment. Two more Covid-19 fatalities have been reported - PHOTO: MINISTRY OF HEALTH HCMC - Vietnam’s Covid-19 deaths have risen to 61, as two female patients with underlying health conditions were confirmed dead by the Ministry of Health on June 14. One of the deceased was an 87-year-old resident of Bac Ninh Province and the mother of another Covid-19 patient, the local media reported. She suffered from high blood pressure, heart failure and Parkinson's and had a heart attack in 2017. The woman tested positive for the coronavirus on June 4 and received treatment at the Bac Ninh General Hospital’s intensive care unit. Three days later, she was transferred to the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases due to her worsening health condition. At the hospital, she was diagnosed with pneumonia caused by Covid-19, high blood pressure, heart failure and Parkinson's. She was intubated, put on a ventilator and received dialysis and intensive care. As her infection worsened rapidly, coupled with her serious underlying illnesses and poor health, she responded poorly to the treatment and died on June 13. The other deceased was a 60-year-old woman in Hanoi. She had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in November 2019 which was brought under control. But the cancer returned in April this year, so she underwent chemotherapy again at the Tan Trieu Campus of K Hospital. On May 19, she tested positive for the coronavirus and was transferred to the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases. However, her condition worsened and she died on June 13 of pneumonia caused by Covid-19, septic shock and an invasive fungal infection. Thus, in the latest Covid-19 wave, which began on April 27, Vietnam has recorded 26 Covid-19 deaths. …

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