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Military forces spray disinfectant at the Gia Lai General Hospital (Photo: VNA) Gia Lai (VNA) - The Central Highlands province of Gia Lai will remove social distancing order at the stroke of February 25 in four localities reporting no new COVID-19 cases in the last 14 days, according to its announcement issued on on February 24. They include Ayun Pa township and the districts of Ia Pa, Phu Thien and Krong Pa. Students of the province are set to return to school on March 1 while socio-economic activities will resume in the new circumstance. Gia Lai had logged no COVID-19 infections as of 5 pm on February 24, marking two weeks without new cases. The province had tested 50,127 people, of which 27 were positive for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19, while 783 are waiting for results. Seven patients were given the all-clear. Most of those under treatment are in stable conditions, as three of them have tested negative thrice, 7 twice and 4 once. Gia Lai has to date completed contact tracing in searching for F1 and F2 cases. Local people are asked to strictly follow the Ministry of Health’s 5K message: khau trang (facemask), khu khuan (disinfection), khoang cach (distance), khong tu tap (no gathering) and khai bao y te (health declaration)./. VNA …

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A student washes hands with sanitiser (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – As of February 24, schools in 52 provinces and cities reopened to their students. The 11 remaining provinces and cities are considering the pandemic situation in their localities to make decisions on when their schools can reopen . The Ministry of Education and Training has requested local departments of education and training and educational institutions nationwide to strictly implement COVID-19 prevention and control measures, especially when students come back to school. Schools are urged to stay vigilant against the pandemic, and proactively carry out prevention and control measures to ensure safety for students, with the focus on disinfecting classes, teaching and learning tools and toys. Kindergarten children maintain 1m distance with friends (Photo: VNA) Schools are also requested to coordinate with parents to keep a close watch on students’ health while they are at home and at school. The Ministry of Education and Training also asked schools to actively build study plans for students to ensure the quality of their study after a long holiday./. VNA …

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Can Tho city has encouraged farmers to switch to high-value crops on low-yield rice fields, enabling many poor households to escape poverty. (Photo: VNA) Can Tho (VNA) - The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho plans to spend 703 billion VND (30.6 million USD) this year on poverty alleviation measures . The money, to come from the central and local governments, soft loans and other sources, will be used to provide poor households with all basic social services and improve their incomes. They will include support policies and programmes related to healthcare, education, vocational training, soft loans, and job and poverty reduction models to help poor and near-poor people. Loans worth 640 billion VND (27.8 million USD) will be provided to 12,974 poor and near – poor households and those that have newly escaped poverty to do business. The city will provide free health insurance cards to 3,090 poor and ethnic people living in disadvantaged areas, and 34,729 near-poor people, ensuring that this demographic is covered 100 percent. It will provide scholarships or reduce or waive school fees for 1,870 poor students, and vocational training and jobs for 750 poor and near-poor people . It will expand 48 successful poverty reduction models, and carry out agriculture extension programmes to benefit 150 poor and near-poor households. The city has implemented various policies and programmes in recent years to enable poor households to escape poverty sustainably. Last year it built 485 houses, gifted 43,556 health insurance cards to poor and near – poor households and provided soft loans worth a total of 648 billion VND (28.1 million USD) to poor and near - poor households. More than 44,900 poor and near-poor households received 33.7 billion VND (1.5 million USD) worth of Government subsidies to overcome the impacts of the COVID- 19 pandemic. The city reduced its poverty rate by 0.37 percentage points and had only 1,036 poor households last year, …

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