Authorities of many big cities and provinces in Vietnam have apparently ignored a call by medical experts to stop mass COVID-19 testing, since the strategy is expensive and almost helpless in the current developments of the disease. The administration of Ho Chi Minh City has completed three campaigns of citywide COVID-19 testing since a new wave of infections hit Vietnam on April 27 and is going on with a fourth testing phase through September 30. So far, the city’s health workers, divided into 1,533 teams, have collected a total of two million real-time RT-PCR samples and over 9.5 million others using the rapid antigen testing method. In the fourth stage, residents of areas at very high and high risk in the southern city are tested every two days in one week, while people living in the remaining areas are subject to testing every four days during an eight-day period, from September 20. To facilitate the testing drive, the city has sought reinforcements of 1,000 medical …
Englishman’s viral videos show ‘how magnificent Vietnam truly is’
Ashley Griffith, an English teacher from Manchester, England, who currently works in Vietnam, runs a Tik Tok channel showcasing what he truly loves about living in Vietnam. Griffith first began documenting his life in Vietnam after a student shared that he wanted to move to England. “[My student] said ‘I want to move there because everything is better in England and people say Vietnam isn’t a good country’,” he said. “Hearing those words made me upset because I’m an Englishman who wholeheartedly loves Vietnam. After that, I decided to dedicate my Tik Tok to showcasing everything that I love about Vietnam, including the food, landscape, people, and even fashion. The list is endless. “Now, I hope that student can see how magnificent Vietnam truly is, and how many amazing opportunities there are on offer here,” he added. In the year since he’s launched his @ashlongvn on Tik Tok, Ashley Griffith has earned a fandom of more than 223,000 followers. 97 percent of his views come …
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Man gets death sentence for shooting policeman dead in northern Vietnam
A Vietnam court has given capital punishment to a man who shot and killed an anti-drug police officer in the northern province of Thanh Hoa in February. The provincial People’s Court on Friday sentenced 40-year-old Sung A Chia to death on charges of murder while giving life imprisonment to his three accomplices, Sung A Tong, Thao A Minh and Phang A Pao, aged 21 to 30, for the same offense. All the four men resided in the province’s Muong Lat District. On February 6, the district police unit assigned five officers, including Major Vi Van Luan, to conduct patrols to detect people engaged in storage, transport and trade of drugs. When the team came to Muong Ly Commune, they spotted Chia and Tong standing on a road, with guns in their hands. The team, with Luan taking the lead, approached the two suspicious men and asked them to show their personal papers in suspecting that they were drug traffickers. Chia suddenly fired a bullet at Luan’s chest while Tong also opened fire …
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400,000 additional AstraZeneca vaccine doses arrive in Ho Chi Minh City from Japan
A flight from Japan carrying 400,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine donated by the Japanese government arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday morning. The Japanese government had previously donated about 3.18 million COVID-19 vaccine jabs to Vietnam. Saturday’s batch has increased Japan's donations to roughly 3.58 million shots in total. Japan affirmed that the country will continue to cooperate with Vietnam to put the COVID-19 pandemic under control soon. On Thursday, Ho Chi Minh City received more than 620,000 Pfizer vaccine doses and 46,000 AstraZeneca shots allocated by the Ministry of Health to provide the second jabs to residents. The southern city is expediting its COVID-19 vaccination campaign to administer first doses to all of people from 18 years old and second doses to those having finished their intervals. Health workers have given over 6.8 million first doses and more than 2.2 million second shots to people in the city, according to the national …