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Health ministry releases Pfizer allocation plan, suggests vaccine mixing
Deputy Minister of Health Trương Quốc Cường has just signed a decision on the allocation plan of 746,460 doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to provinces, cities and hospitals across the country.The Ministry of Health has requested that due to the low number of vaccines available, Pfizer vaccine ...
Pandemic-hit workers anxiously wait for aid
According to statistics of the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, in the second quarter of 2021, up to 12.8 million Vietnamese people aged 15 and older were negatively affected by the Covid-19 epidemic, including those who lost their jobs, had to take time ...
Vu Diep
Vietnam works on method to discover Covid-19 infections through coughs
A project is being implemented with the participation of Vietnamese scientists who are trying to use AI to discover Covid-19 infections through coughs. The project, named AICOVIDVN, aims to develop a tool that helps agencies discover Covid-19 infected people quickly and easily. When people’s coughs are recorded ...
Trong Dat
Businesses to take gas emission inventory in 2022
Vietnam from 2022 will produce gas emission inventory for five major fields.This is the result of a meeting to collect proposals and recommendations from environmental experts and nearly 200 enterprises for the draft decree about greenhouse gas reduction and ozone layer protection, held by the ...
Smart-bracelet program on quarantined migrants to begin in Quang Ninh
The Ministry of Health (MOH) will pilot a medical quarantine program directed at migrants in Quang Ninh province in July. Smart bracelets will be one of the technological solutions used.When entering Vietnam via border gates, migrants will receive and install sim cards, install and turn ...
Van Anh
Vietnam’s multidimensional poverty rate dropping
The multidimensional poverty rate in Vietnam reduced from 9.9 percent in 2016 to 4.5 percent in last year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment. The rate in rural areas is higher than that in urban areas, but ...
Vietnam should not be criticized for slow pace of vaccinations: FPT official
Some people have criticized the Government for being slow in vaccinating its people. To date, only nearly 1 percent of population has been vaccinated, a figure which is lower than Laos and Cambodia.The countries running vaccination programs can be classified into four groups. Vietnam is ...
Do Cao Bao
Vietnam may grant emergency license for locally-made Covid-19 vaccine
Soon after the phase 3 trial, Vietnam may consider emergency licensing for Nanocovax, a made-in-Vietnam Covid-19 vaccine.Nanocovax vaccine will be tested at local centers with about 13,000 participants, aged 18-75. As planned, about 1,000 volunteers will be injected with the vaccine this week. Through two ...
Thuy Hanh
PhD production plan: Will Project 89 go a new way?
Before launching Project 89 that aimed to produce 7,300 more lecturers with a doctoral degree, the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) ran two projects on preparing human resources with doctoral and master’s degrees, worth trillions of VND.The state spent VND2.5 trillion on the project ...
Phuong Chi
Where is Vietnam on the Covid-19 vaccination map?
Compared with neighboring countries such as Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand, the rate of vaccination against Covid-19 in Vietnam is still low, accounting for only 0.86% of the population. Meanwhile, countries with high rates of people vaccinated are seeing a rapidly decreasing number of new cases ...
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