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President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc during his field trip to HCM City. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked HCM City to continue to strictly implement the current high level of social distancing measures. During his field trip to the city on Friday he emphasised to city leaders that the first and most important goal at this point is to protect the health and safety of people and to minimise fatalities. The president said the city needed to strictly implement social distancing measures with each family isolating itself from other families, one village from other villages, one commune from other communes, one province from other provinces. The city must proactively and urgently issue cards to allow motorbike drivers, taxi drivers and volunteers to deliver and support food, goods for the people. They should also prioritise vaccinating frontline forces, the president said. He suggested the city should have on-site consulting doctors for …

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A French citizen gets vaccinated at FV Hospital (Photo: courtesy of FV hospital ) HCM City (VNA) – FV Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City is running a vaccination drive targeting 5,000 French citizens and their family members in southern Vietnam, which began on July 29. Vincent Floreani, Consul General of France in HCM City, said: “I am very grateful to the Vietnamese Government for supporting us to be able to implement the vaccination programme for the French community. We also appreciate the organisation of FV Hospital from the phase of registration to vaccination”. Under the drive, 10,000 shots of Moderna vaccine will be given to the group. About 500 people are set to be vaccinated on a daily basis. Jean-Marcel Guillon, Chief Executive Officer of FV Hospital, said the injection procedure is done safely following COVID-19 prevention and control measures, including the city’s current social distancing regulations. Expressing her joy after getting her shot on July 29, …

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Hundreds of doctors have joined the Facebook group ‘Giup nhau mua dich’ (helping each other) to assist people during the Covid-19 pandemic. A volunteer of the group “Our family members are under concentrated quarantine. I plan to buy this medicine for storage. Please tell me if I can use the medicine,” a woman asked. “Please help us. Four family members have tested positive, including two children, seven years old and one year old. The younger child and I are at the Field Hospital No 4,” another entry said. “I don’t know where to contact to ask questions. I feel embarrassed,” she wrote. These are just some of hundreds posts on ‘Giup nhau mua dich’ group. People raise questions and ask for advice about every issue related to the pandemic. Nearly all entries and questions have been answered. The Facebook chat group was created one week ago, but the number of members has increased to more than 200 accounts. By the end of first half of July 23, there had been 400 posts. …

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A police officer checks a delivery person in HCM City’s District 3. The city has created a database on delivery workers to ensure travel restrictions are not violated. — Photo thanhnien.vn HCM CITY — To ensure smooth delivery and distribution of essential goods amid the COVID-19 restrictions, the HCM City Department of Industry and Trade has created a database of delivery staff that can be easily accessed by inspectors and notified the public about businesses that sell essential products. It has apprised district authorities, the police and others about how to identify various people such as shippers working for delivery services and those supplying meals to hospitals, quarantine zones and other facilities, a key factor in combating the pandemic. People delivering for e-commerce companies need to be in uniforms and have a travel permit issued by their employers and employee identity card. Information about the shippers’ vehicles, address and delivery route are easily …

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Doctor Karen Kieu Nguyen (L) and Italian doctors (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – A series of online conferences themed “ Overseas Vietnamese join hands in overcoming the pandemic” will be launched on July 31 by a Vietnamese Italian expert team led by Doctor Karen Kieu Nguyen. The activity aims to respond to the call by the Party and State leaders for the Vietnamese community’s support to the COVID-19 fight. In the first conference, the experts will share experience with Ho Chi Minh City in deploying family doctor system in Italy for treatment of COVID-19 patients. Speaking to a Vietnam News Agency correspondent in Italy, Doctor Karen Kieu Nguyen said that since the beginning of COVID-19 outbreak in Vietnam, the Vietnamese Government has valued ideas and experience shared by overseas Vietnamese in pandemic prevention and control. She held that Vietnam showed strong performance in pandemic control in 2020 with low numbers of infections and deaths, and high number of …

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Vegetables being loaded into a bus belonging to Bao Yen Construction Services Tourism Co., Ltd. in HCM City last week. Five such buses are being used to distribute vegetables around the city. (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNS/VNA) - I was surprised to receive a call from an American friend who lives in Singapore, asking about the pandemic situation in Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam’s current COVID-19 epicentre with a daily record of thousands of cases. He was concerned that the situation could spin “out of control”, comparing it to India or Indonesia. I told my friend that he had called at a good time as I had just read a news story from the Singapore-based The Straits Times, headlined “Vietnam grapples with public frustration over COVID-19 pandemic missteps and transparency”, mentioning the growing unhappiness about the pandemic control measures. The story, I believe, described the situation in a superficial way. I have closely observed the global situation, especially …

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A medical worker prepares a COVID-19 vaccine shot in the southern province of Long An. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — A further 8,622 domestically transmitted COVID-19 infections were recorded in Việt Nam on Friday, along with 27 imported cases in the past 24 hours, making this the second-highest daily increase in cases since the beginning of the pandemic, pushing the total in the fourth wave to 133,257. HCM City, the epicentre of the current outbreaks, continued to top the national case count with 4,282 new patients, bringing the southern city’s caseload to more than 86,000 since late April, as the authorities are set to extend current strict lockdown measures beyond August 1 for another one to two weeks. The next four localities with biggest daily increases are Bình Dương (1,920), Long An (469), Đồng Nai (360), and Tiền Giang (242) – all in the southern region which has also been placed under strict social distancing in line with the Government’s Directive 16 along with HCM …

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HDBank achieves excellent results in the first half, with its profit up 44.2 per cent, NPL ratio at only 0.8 per cent. — Photo courtesy of the bank HCM CITY — The Hồ Chí Minh City Development Joint Stock Commercial Bank (HOSE: HDB) has reported pre-tax profit of VNĐ4.19 trillion (US$183.9 million) for the first half of the year, a year-on-year increase of 44.2 per cent and equivalent to 58 per cent of the full-year target. According to its consolidated financial statements for the second quarter of 2021, total assets as of June 30 were worth VNĐ331 trillion ($14.5 billion) and outstanding credit balance was more than VNĐ199.16 trillion ($8.74 billion), up 5.8 per cent from the same period last year. The non-performing loans ratio of the parent bank was just 0.8 per cent, among the lowest in the banking sector. Total operating income in the second quarter was VNĐ4.25 trillion, which took the figure for the first half to over VNĐ8.422 trillion, up 32.7 per cent …

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New approach, new solutions necessary for long fight: PM Medics, volunteers battle to keep HCM City safe from coronavirus Stores work hard to follow limited operating hours Over 7,900 new COVID-19 cases reported on Tuesday 6,000 medical workers from all over Việt Nam volunteer to help deal with HCM City's outbreak Doctors at Chợ Rẫy Hospital in HCM City treat a patient with COVID-19. Photo courtesy of the hospital HCM CITY — Patients with locally acquired COVID-19 showing no symptoms, and with no underlying disease or obesity, will now be under a 14-day home quarantine, according to new guidelines released by the HCM City Department of Health on Thursday. New COVID-19 cases with manageable underlying diseases will also be quarantined at home for 14 days. The new guidelines aim to reduce the overload of COVID-19 patients at healthcare facilities and increase the quality of treatment for COVID-19 patients with moderate and severe symptoms in …

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COVID-19 patients with no symptoms will quarantine at home for 14 days Medics, volunteers battle to keep HCM City safe from coronavirus Stores work hard to follow limited operating hours Over 7,900 new COVID-19 cases reported on Tuesday 6,000 medical workers from all over Việt Nam volunteer to help deal with HCM City's outbreak Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính addresses a Government meeting with local authorities on COVID-19 prevention and control on Friday. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — The fight against COVID-19 will be long, even when vaccines are available, therefore, a new approach and new solutions are necessary, Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính said Friday. Chính told an online Government meeting with local authorities on COVID-19 prevention and control, that the fourth wave of COVID-19 in Việt Nam had gone nearly 100 days. He also said that the pandemic situation, especially in HCM City and other provinces in the southern and central regions, was still …

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