Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Duong Anh Duc directed the Department of Education and Training, the Department of Health, administrations in districts, and Thu Duc City to conduct a preliminary review of pilot in-person learning in two weeks for students in grades 9 and 12 for proposal of continued learning; from which the city will maintain the best learning environment for children.
Since the third Covid-19 epidemic broke out in Bac Giang, the Ministry of Health has given the green light on the use of traditional medicine in combination with Western medicine to treat patients with Covid-19. Traditional medicine and Western medicine used in combination to treat Covid-19 patients have shown positive results.
Ho Chi Minh City's Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control on October 1 said that the number of Covid-19 deaths in the city has dipped below 100 for the first time in over three months, with 96 deaths registered during the last 24 hours.
After months of social distancing, Ho Chi Minh City authorities decided to reopen commercial centers, supermarkets, mini supermarkets; convenience stores, grocery stores; wholesale markets, traditional markets; gasoline, oil, gas, chemicals whereas barbershops, hair salons reopen at 50 percent capacity.
Vietnam’s stock market suffered a steep decline on Monday as market sentiment was pressured by worries about the broader spread of the coronavirus across the country.
World Health Organisation (WHO) Representative in Vietnam Dr. Kidong Park has reaffirmed that WHO stands ready to accompany the Government of Vietnam in Covid-19 response as well as provide Vietnamese health workers with professional training and instructions on how to prevent themselves from contracting the coronavirus disease.
Vietnam will launch the fifth Covid-19 vaccination drive, with volunteer medical workers, people with chronic diseases, poor people, social policy beneficiaries, employees in the pharmaceutical sector, and foreigners the first to receive shots of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, said Deputy Director of the HCMC Department of Health Dr. Nguyen Hoai Nam at a press brief yesterday.
Ho Chi Minh City authorities are determined to curb Covid-19 spread to ensure its twin goal of containing the Covid-19 pandemic and reviving the economy.
Just one day, Ho Chi Minh City yesterday detected 667 suspected Covid-19 cases and most of them are in quarantine wards, Director of the city Department of Health Professor Nguyen Tan Binh said at a meeting on Friday afternoon.
Chairman of the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City Nguyen Thanh Phong has decided to establish some teams which conduct the purchase and use of Covid-19 vaccines for the city’s vaccination acceleration.
The Ministry of Health reported that 139 new Covid-19 cases had been detected in the six hours from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m. June 20, including 130 local infections and 9 imported.
Ho Chi Minh City has seen a decline in coronavirus cases daily, said Director of the city Department of Health Dr. Nguyen Tan Binh at an online briefing on epidemic prevention and control chaired by Vice Chairmen of the municipal People's Committee Ngo Minh Chau and Duong Anh Duc yesterday.
Travel agencies in Ho Chi Minh City are selling coronavirus “vaccine tours” to the United States ranging from VND44.99 million (US$1,952) to VND250 million a trip per person for those who want to fly to the US for a Covid-19 shot.
Vietnam recorded 45 cases of Covid-19 in the past 12 hours to 6pm April 29, with 39 detected among people being quarantined after arrival, one case who had completed quarantine after arrival and five connected cases, according to the Health Ministry.
The prospect of restarting summer tourism this year, and once again reviving the flagging tourism industry, has largely been based on the immense efforts to have successfully contained the coronavirus in Vietnam. Now many airlines and railways are getting ready to launch exciting summer packages to once again welcome a flow of travellers.
This morning, a mission team led by Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training Le Hong Son visited schools as teachers today welcomed back over 1.7 million preschoolers and high schoolers returning to schools for the first day after a long break due to Covid-19.
According to the results of the whole-genome sequence analysis of SARS-CoV-2, the Japanese expert, who died in a Somerset West Point Hotel at 2 Tay Ho Street in Hanoi’s Tay Ho District recently, and a cluster of Covid-19 in the capital were identified as being infected with a new 20C-coronavirus variant.
Ngo Minh Chau, Deputy Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee proposed to exchange information of illegal immigrants through trails along borderlines with neighboring countries.
Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Vice Chairman Duong Anh Duc has just sent a dispatch to the heads of departments, divisions, and industries, the Chairman of the People's Committee of Thu Duc City, and districts on strengthening measures to prevent the Covid-19 pandemic in the current period.
