Disasters and emergency response
Vietnam to receive 5 mln Covid-19 vaccine doses in February
Vietnam would receive around five million Covid-19 vaccine doses by the end of February, Deputy Health Minister Truong Quoc Cuong said at a meeting Monday. They include about 4.9 million vaccine doses provided via Covax, a global mechanism for developing, manufacturing and procuring Covid-19 vaccine ...
Vo Hai
SARS-CoV-2 variant found at Tan Son Nhat airport appears for first time in Southeast Asia: Scientists
The SARS-CoV-2 variant found in patients at the Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City is A.23.1, which was first found in the African country of Rwanda in late October 2020, according to a report by the Hospital of Tropical Diseases on ...
Hà Nội to roll out COVID-19 vaccinations to all residents
Hà Nội authorities plan to provide free COVID-19 vaccinations to all residents, said a senior official.Secretary of the Hà Nội Party Committee Vương Đình Huệ asked concerned agencies to prioritise the purchase of vaccines for all residents using the local budget and mobilising other legal resources at a meeting of ...
Schools closed in 16 provinces, cities to prevent spread of COVID-19
Authorities of 16 provinces and cities nationwide have decided to close schools since February 1 after some pupils were found to have been in contact with COVID-19 patients. Ha Noi also decided that all bars, karaoke parlors and discotheques must close and residents are told ...
Huong Giang
Latest Covid-19 outbreaks: VN should be ready for 30,000 cases, containment in 10 days the goal: Steering Committee
Việt Nam should get ready to deal with up to 30,000 new community cases of COVID-19 in the worst-case scenario of the new outbreaks, but health authorities are striving to achieve containment within 10 days, a high-ranking official has said.Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam, Head of the ...
Viet Nam suspends inbound flights for fear of new COVID-19 variants
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has decided to temporarily suspend inbound flights from countries and territories, firstly the UK and South Africa, that have reported new COVID-19 variants. This is part of the Directive No. 01/CT-TTg signed by PM Phuc on strengthening prevention and control of ...
Thuy Dung
Vietnam set to complete first Covid-19 vaccine trials by 2022
Human trials of Nanocovax, the first Covid-19 vaccine in Vietnam developed by Nanogen Pharmaceutical Biotechnology JSC, began Thursday morning with two men and a woman in their 20s getting shots at Vietnam Military Medical University in Hanoi.Nanogen said it would complete the first phase in ...
Chi Le
Workshop discusses future of Vietnamese labour market
Experts discussed the future of the Vietnamese labour market at an online workshop hosted by Nhan Dan (The People) newspaper last week.Dr Bui Sy Loi, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly’s Committee of Social Affairs, said one of the biggest changes of the labour market ...
Workshop seeks ways to protect, promote human rights amid COVID-19
Protecting and promoting human rights in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic was the theme of a workshop jointly held by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Hanoi on December 15.The country proposed the International Day of ...
It is time to call for social responsibility from public servants
In this article, the author summarizes comments to the authorities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, which emphasize the social responsibility of civil servants and public employees.As the Covid-19 pandemic is still rampant, and natural disasters have become complicated, workers in the state sector ...
Do Thanh Huyen
