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/ February 24, 2021

Tuyen Quang advised to pay greater attention to forest economy

The PM had a working session with key leaders of Tuyen Quang on February 23 after attending the launching of the tree-planting festival in the northern mountainous province. He stressed that Tuyen Quang should become an important hub of wood industry of Vietnam and the region, asking the locality to mobilize all resources for the goal. At the same time, Tuyen Quang should expand a number of other agricultural sectors, he said, suggesting that the province increase the area of sugar canes for export and call on investors to invest more in agriculture and forestry. The PM reminded Tuyen Quang, the province to pay greater attention to preserving and promoting unique cultural identities of ethnic minority groups in the locality, thus boosting the development of tourism and service sectors. PM Phuc expressed delight at dramatic changes that the province has made in the past 10 years in both urban and rural areas. However, he noted that the province has still faced many difficulties in socio-economic development and investment attraction, keeping it a poor province. On the occasion, PM Phuc visited the Tan Trao special national relic site in Son Duong district, which comprises 183 smaller relic sites having close relations with the national liberation cause in the middle of the 20th century. He also visited and presented gifts to Cao Thi Co, a Heroic Vietnamese Mother in Tan Quang ward of Tuyen Quang city and Nguyen Dinh Phung, a former revolutionary official in An Tuong ward. Source: VNA …

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/ February 24, 2021

AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine batch lands in HCMC

At around 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, the flight carrying Covid-19 vaccine doses arrived at HCMC's Tan Son Nhat Airport. They're the first batch of Covid-19 vaccines produced by British-Swedish firm AstraZeneca in collaboration with Oxford University and imported by Vietnam Vaccine JSC (VNVC). After landing, the plane carrying the vaccine is guided to its berth. Employees at Tan Son Nhat Airport prepare to receive the vaccines while wearing protective suits. The first vaccine batch leaves the plane. A VNVC representative said the batch is part of an agreement last November with AstraZeneca. Truong Quoc Cuong, Deputy Health Minister, at Tan Son Nhat Airport on Wednesday said Vietnam and Thailand are the first two ASEAN countries to receive Covid-19 vaccines produced by AstraZeneca. Vaccine containers are loaded onto special vehicles at the airport. They would be transported to VNVC cold storage units kept at between two to eight degrees Celsius. Containers are disinfected to prevent possible contamination and infection. An airport worker inspects the containers before transportation. Around 30 million Covid-19 vaccine doses would be provided to Vietnam within the first half of this year according to the health ministry. Through Covax, a global mechanism for developing, manufacturing and procuring Covid-19 vaccines and supply for member countries, Vietnam would receive an additional 4.9 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine within the first half of this year as well as 33 million more in the third quarter. A container is transported to cold storage. VNVC is the first Vietnamese firm to possess Covid-19 vaccines and the only firm chosen by AstraZeneca to distribute the vaccine in large numbers across Vietnam. In January, VNVC was approved by the Health Ministry to import, export and store vaccines and other biological products at low …

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/ February 24, 2021

Vietnam confirms nine new Covid-19 cases

Eight of the patients numbered 2404-2412 were already in quarantine and the ninth was detected during a province-wide testing campaign. With two cases confirmed in the morning, Hai Duong has recorded 11 cases Wednesday. The province leads in the number of community cases recorded since January 28 at 636, followed by Quang Ninh (61), Ho Chi Minh City (36) and Hanoi (35). The national Covid-19 tally stands at 2,412, with 1,790 recoveries and 35 deaths. Thirty recoveries were announced Wednesday. Most of the active patients are in stable health, with 191 having tested negative for the novel coronavirus at least once. Ten containers with 117,600 Covid-19 vaccine doses produced by the AstraZeneca companyarrived at HCMC's Tan Son Nhat International Airport Wednesday morning. Covid-19 has claimed nearly 2.5 million lives globally. …

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