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Nation faces severe blood shortage during pandemic The Central Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (CIHBT) has announced it is facing a severe shortage of blood which is enough for use only in the next few days without further supplies. Blood storage now stands at only over 4,000 blood units, according to the CIHBT. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the CIHBT had to cancel or postpone 80 blood donation drives in November with an expected reception of 25,000 units. When social distancing measures were eased and the nation started to implement the policy of safe and flexible adaptation to and effective control of COVID-19, the number of blood donations improved. However, after the number of new COVID-19 cases has increased recently in many localities, blood donations started to decline. Director of the CIHBT Bạch Quốc Khánh said the appearance of new cases in localities forced blood donation campaigns to be postponed or cancelled. The CIHBT receives just 300-400 blood …

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President Nguyen Xuan Phuc meets embassy's staff in Russia President Nguyen Xuan Phuc met the staff of the Vietnamese Embassy and representative agencies in Moscow, Russia, on November 30. The President said that he had just had very successful talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The two leaders discussed 20 issues related to cooperation between the two countries, upon which they reached high consensus, he said, adding that the Russian President supported many issues raised by Vietnam. The two leaders agreed to issue a joint vision statement on the Vietnam-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership until 2030. While appreciating the preparations for the visit made by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and relevant agencies, and especially the staff of the Vietnamese Embassy in Russia, the President asked the agencies to perform well the tasks assigned by the Party and the State as well as to nurture the good relationship between the two countries. He also underlined …

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Vietnam Design Week to nurture creativity from traditional culture With the theme "Awakening Tradition", from November 27 to December 3, Vietnam Design Week 2021 will take place at the Van Mieu-Quoc Tu Giam (Temple of Literature Complex) relic site located in Dong Da district, Hanoi. Tea pressed into cakes, printed with "Khue Van Cac" (Literature Pavilion) image, a souvenir product designed on the basis of traditional culture dedicated to the Van Mieu-Quoc Tu Giam relic site. This event is organised by the Vietnam National Institute of Culture and Arts Studies under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and partners. Design is an activity that involves many areas of life. Currently, serveral countries in the world have been considered as "creative design countries", when design elements are promoted to apply within their economic and social development. Therefore, Vietnam Design Week aims to encourage a change in design thinking, considering traditional values as an …

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Nitazoxanide has been successfully synthesized by the Institute of Chemistry, under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, to produce drugs to treat COVID-19 patients with mild and medium symptoms. Nitazoxanide compound synthesized at the Hanoi-based Institute of Chemistry under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology. Photo Courtesy of the institute The compound was synthesized on a pilot scale, which is larger than on a laboratory scale but smaller than the production scale. Professor and PhD Nguyen Van Tuyen, Director of the Institute of Chemistry, said that the institute’s scientists studied and succeeded in perfecting the process of synthesizing Nitazoxanide during the pilot phase. The institute previously announced its success in synthesizing Favipiravir, while the Institute of Marine Biochemistry successfully synthesized Molnupiravir - an antiviral medication that inhibits the replication of certain RNA viruses, and is used to treat those …

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The Vietnamese health ministry has urged localities to prepare to administer COVID-19 booster vaccine shots, which could start within December, with priority on over 50s and frontline workers. Foreigners in Hanoi received the second dose of COVID-19 vaccine in early November. Localities are urged to complete the vaccine drive for the population, then begin booster shots, usually given typically six months after the last dose. Mixing and matching vaccines is allowed, according to health ministry. The additional COVID-19 shots will first go to the adults (from 18 years old), especially people above 50 years who have been fully inoculated (one dose, two doses, or three doses depending on the vaccine types) and are moderately or severely immunocompromised (for example, people who just underwent organ transplant operation, people with cancer or HIV, or taking immune checkpoint inhibitors, etc.). The additional shots will either be the same type of vaccines they have …

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The second Programme on the Prevention and Reduction of Child Labour for the 2021 ̶ 25 period was launched in Hanoi on Wednesday. Children at work. Photo nhandan.vn Approved by the Prime Minister through Decision No 782/QĐ - TTg on 27 May 2021, the programme was developed and launched by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) in collaboration with related departments and ministries, with technical support from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF). With a long-term vision towards 2030, the programme has three core aims: to prevent and detect cases of child labour, and support and provide interventions for children engaged in and at risk of child labour; to raise awareness on child labour prevention and reduction; and to deliver training and capacity building on child labour prevention and reduction. The content of the programme builds on the successes and lessons learned from the first …

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The three localities with the highest number of new cases were Ho Chi Minh City with 1,311 cases, Can Tho with 982 cases, and Thua Thien Hue with 980 cases, including 822 cases that have been detected in previous days but yet to be confirmed on the national Covid-19 patient database. The Covid-19 death toll in Vietnam rose to 25,858 with the confirmation of 200 deaths on Friday. Health authorities also confirmed 1,149 recoveries on the same day, bringing the total tally of recovered cases so far to 1,006,459. Almost 53.2 million people of the nation's 96-million population have been fully vaccinated. …

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The Ministry of Health (MOH) has asked local authorities to strengthen surveillance to discover Covid-19 cases and any abnormal signs of clusters as a new coronavirus variant called Omicron has emerged. The World Health Organisation (WHO) on November 25, 2021 reported that the coronavirus variant it has named Omicron (B.1.1.529) was discovered in several African countries, such as South Africa and Botswana. The first patient was a 30-year-old man in South Africa. He had fatigue, body aches with a minor headache, and itching, but no sore throat, cough or loss of taste. According to scientists, the Omicron variant has 32 mutations in spike glycoprotein and is the most mutated of the SARS-CoV-2 viruses. It is predicted to spread faster than Delta. Omicron cases have been discovered on several continents. Though epidemiologists think that it’s too late to impose travel restrictions to prevent Omicron from spreading globally, many countries have banned passengers from the …

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An operation lasting 3.5 hours that replaced the hip of a patient suffering from “marble bone” in late October was the first surgery of its kind in Vietnam and the 30th in the world. Nguyen Dinh Hieu, Deputy Head of the Department for Sports Medicine and Orthopaedics (right) “This was a war of nerves and brains for both surgeons and the patient,” said Nguyen Dinh Hieu, Deputy Head of the Department for Sports Medicine and Orthopaedics, of E Hospital in Hanoi. In general, hip replacement surgery lasts 45-60 minutes. But this surgery lasted 3.5 hours conducted by a team of four surgeons and many nurses. Marble bone is a rarely seen disease, which is caused by genetic mutation. There are two severe forms of the disease, which may cause death before a patient turns one year or 10 years old. The third form is milder, but it causes inconveniences to patients. Hieu explained bone formation and bone destruction exist at the same time. The imbalance of the two processes causes …

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Twenty-two days after its launch into orbit, the developer of the NanoDragon satellite has not received a signal. NanoDragon satellite is developed by a group of scientists from the Vietnam Space Center (VNSC). As VietNamNet has reported, the Make in Vietnam satellite called NanoDragon was successfully launched into space on November 9. However, the ground station still has not received a signal. According to the satellite developer, the Vietnam Space Center under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, a total of nine satellites, including Vietnam’s NanoDragon, were mounted on Japan’s Epsilon 5 rocket sent into space. So far, seven of them have successfully sent signals to the ground station. The two remaining satellites are the ARICA satellite of Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan, and NanoDragon, which were in the the 8th and 9th position when they separate from the rocket. NanoDragon is the product of a project to research, design, manufacture, …

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