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HCM City authorities launched the biggest Covid-19 vaccination campaign on June 19 to vaccinate hundreds of workers at the Hi-tech Industrial Park in Thu Duc. Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh, Party Secretary of HCM City Nguyen Van Nen, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long and other state officials visited the opening ceremony. Over 400 workers will be vaccinated on June 19. On June 17, over 800,000 doses of vaccines were transferred to HCM City. This is part of the one million doses of vaccine given to Vietnam by Japan. Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son said they had already worked with the HCM City Covid-19 Prevention Committee, Department of Health and the city CDC to launch the vaccination campaign immediately after checking the status of the vaccine. The city planned to set up 1,000 vaccination sites during this campaign. Over 1,000 teams of five members have been set up with different tasks so far. Priority will be given to frontline workers, teachers, people living in outbreak areas, policy beneficiaries, Vietnamese employees and diplomats abroad and customs and immigration officers. From June 3 until now, HCM City authorities have given the first shot of the Covid-19 vaccine to 13,450 people and the second shots to 4,750 people. …

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HCM City (VNA) - HCM City’s People’s Procuracy on May 7 approved the municipal police’s decision to arrest and begin legal proceedings against two men for organising housing for illegal immigrants , under Article 348 of the Penal Code . According to initial investigations, Hoang Van Cu, born in 2000 in northern Cao Bang province, moved to HCM City to look for work and came into contact with a Chinese man named Minh, who asked him to arrange accommodation for a group of Chinese friends for 200,000 VND (8.7 USD) per person per day. Cu knew that the Chinese nationals had illegally entered Vietnam but did not inform authorities, instead taking up Minh’s offer as he was in need of cash. The Tan Binh district police force discovered the Chinese immigrants on April 26 and arrested Cu. In another case, municipal police have started legal proceedings against Nguyen Van Thanh, born in 1995 in northern Bac Giang province and now residing in the city’s Tan Phu district, for housing illegal immigrants. A man named Trong, Thanh’s partner in crime, asked Thanh to pick up 13 illegal Chinese immigrants and arrange accommodation for them, and paid him 10.5 million VND. Thanh and the Chinese nationals were detained near Rach Ong Bridge in District 7 on May 28. Further investigations are underway./. VNA …

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Border guard hand over illegal migrants to authorised forces (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) - Ho Chi Minh City's police announced on May 13 that 52 foreigners who had illegally entered the country and were arrested in the city, have been expelled. This is the second time HCM City's authorities have deported illegal immigrants since the start of the year. The illegal immigrants admitted that with the help of some Vietnamese brokers, they had entered Vietnam via trails and crossings in the northern border then travelled to HCM City by coach, aiming to seek jobs in the city or going to Cambodia. HCM City's police and relevant agencies have stepped up inspections in an attempt to detect illegal immigrants and impose hefty fines on those who arrange illegal entry and stay for foreigners , amid the resurgence of COVID-19 in many localities. The city's police also launched investigations on several cases./. VNA …

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