Social development
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Remote health check-up platform, COVID-19 prevention app launched
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on April 18 attended a ceremony to launch a remote medical examination and treatment platform and Bluezone application to help the community in COVID-19 prevention and control.If the app user is positive for the SARS-CoV-2 (known as F0), through the ...
Social distancing continues for Hanoi, HCMC until April 22
The social distancing campaign will continue until April 22 in Hanoi, HCMC and 10 other localities deemed to be at high risk of Covid-19 spread. Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc made the decision at a meeting with health officials and leaders of the country’s 63 ...
Programme approved to help protect ethnic minorities in 2021-2030
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a programme on the protection and development of ethnic minorities in 2021-2030. All population officers, health workers, and prestigious people in ethnic minority communities will be provided with knowledge about population – family planning, and reproductive health care by 2030.Keep ...
Localities call for extension of social distancing: Committee
A number of localities have proposed extending the social distancing measures beyond April 15, according to a conference of the National Steering Committee on the Prevention and Control of COVID-19. While the majority of localities proposed that social distancing end on April 15, eight localities including ...
UNESCO mobilizes 122 countries to promote open science and reinforced cooperation in the face of COVID-19
On 30 March, UNESCO initiated an online Ministerial meeting “Covid-19 and Open Science” with the participation of 77 Ministers and representatives of Sciences and Technologies sector from 122 countries (including Viet Nam) to exchange on emergency response to Covid-19.Keep reading ...
UNESCO
Viet Nam shows how you can contain COVID-19 with limited resources
To date, Viet Nam has had no fatalities as a result of the pandemic. The government acted swiftly to suspend flights, shut schools and quarantine new arrivals.How does a nation with limited resources confront a global pandemic that has brought many developed countries’ healthcare systems ...
Sean Fleming
Viet Nam to go into 15-day nationwide social distancing to curb COVID-19
Viet Nam will begin nationwide social distancing within 15 days, starting 00:00 on April 1, with the principle of every household, village, commune, district and province going into self-isolation, according to the latest directive signed by PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc.Regarding the performance of self-isolation at home and ...
Vien Nhu
Medical face masks can be reused with microwave method: expert
Used cloth masks and disposable medical masks can be reused if they are sprayed with disinfectant and microwaved at 800W for a minute, Dr. Doãn Ngọc Hải, director of the Institute for Occupational Safety and Environmental Health has said. The institute has tested the standard ...
VN halts entry to all foreigners due to COVID-19
The Vietnamese Government has decided to temporarily suspend entry of all foreigners since March 22 due to swift and complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic.For those entering Viet Nam for diplomatic and official purposes, for participation in major diplomatic events, or being experts, business managers, ...
Quang Minh
Over US$30 million for Vietnam to enhance climate resilience
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved a non-refundable aid worth US$30.2 million to help Vietnam enhance climate resilience, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).The sum will be allocated to a project named “Strengthening the resilience of smallholder agriculture to climate ...
