Read what is in the news today: COVID-19 Updates -- The Vietnamese Ministry of Health confirmed 92 new COVID-19 cases, including 91 domestic infections, on Monday morning, taking the national caseload to 10,630 patients, with 3,998 recoveries and 59 deaths. -- Authorities in Binh Tan District, Ho Chi Minh City have locked down the entire Ehome 3 apartment complex from 10:00 am on Sunday and will test all of about 7,600 residents there for COVID-19 after an infection chain was determined to be related to this location. Society -- Functional forces in central Da Nang City had to deal with a fire that broke out at the Khanh Son landfill in Lien Chieu District at around 2:00 pm on Sunday and lasted until the evening of the same day. -- Twelve people were caught hiding in an ambulance to avoid COVID-19 checkpoints on their way from the infection hotbed of Bac Ninh Province to Son La Province on Saturday night. -- The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam is seeking solutions from the Directorate Roads of Vietnam after discovering many passengers using bogus driver’s licenses to go through customs clearance at local airports. -- Traffic police officers under the Ministry of Public Security said on Sunday afternoon that they were investigating an accident between a car and a truck in Hung Yen Province that killed three people on the spot on the same day. -- A rare spotted linsang has been rescued from illegal breeding at a house in Hanoi, the Education for Nature - Vietnam announced on its Facebook page on Sunday. Business -- A total of 171 tourism enterprises in Ho Chi Minh City registered to withdraw their travel service business licenses from early 2020 to May, according to the municipal Department of Tourism. Sports -- The International Weightlifting Federation (IFM) has confirmed three Vietnamese weightlifters are qualified for the Tokyo Olympics, raising the number of Vietnamese Olympians to 13. -- “Novak Djokovic claimed a …
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Struggling logistics firms in dire need of support to survive COVID-19 crisis
A worker wears protective clothing while working at Golden Logistic Co Ltd in the northern province of Bac Ninh. Every stage involving transportation, warehousing, regular health check-ups for workers and drivers transporting goods in pandemic-hit areas is all in strict compliance with guidelines for disinfection and sterilisation. — Photo courtesy of Golden Logistic Co Ltd The COVID-19 health crisis and resulting wide-ranging and deeply-felt economic upheaval has flipped the logistics industry on its head, leaving ill-protected freight firms in dire need of emergency State support to survive hardships. Mandatory preventive measures among nations to contain the spread of the pandemic has resulted in disrupted trade flow and fragmented supply lines, dealing a blow to the logistics industry, which is viewed as an auxiliary for trade and commerce, enabling other industries to deliver goods and services to consumers. Factories reducing production or suspending operations has led to a curtailment in the transportation and delivery of goods in the supply chain, greatly affecting the operation of logistics companies. Shrinking orders, surging costs “Right from the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak, the number of freight orders received by logistics companies in Bac Ninh fell sharply, at the same time, the delivery of goods, storage and warehousing activity is slowed and disrupted,” Nguyen Hoai Nam, sales manager of Golden Logistic Co. Ltd. in the northern province of Bac Ninh, told Viet Nam News. “Following government guidelines on COVID-19 prevention and control, we businesses are making a continuing effort to realise the dual goal of maintaining production while ensuring work-related safety during the pandemic, prioritising workers' health,” he said. Every stage involving transportation, warehousing, regular health check-ups for workers and drivers transporting goods in pandemic-hit areas was all in strict compliance with guidelines for disinfection …
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