Beauty queens participated in a campaign to support farmers in the northern province of Hai Duong, the epicenter of the new outbreak, in consumption of farm products.
Within 12 hours, the new novel coronavirus cases in the Northern Province of Hai Duong reached 11 this morning, the National Steering Board for Covid-19 Prevention and Control announced.
Volunteer groups and authorities from Hanoi over the weekend after Lunar New Year successfully distributed and sold tons of unsellable agricultural produce from Hai Duong Province, which has been in Covid-19 lockdown for weeks.
Statistics showed over 4,000 hectares of unharvested crop across Hai Duong Province, yielding 90,700 tons of spring onions, carrots, cabbage, kohlrabi etc.
Scientists of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology February 2 said that contagious variant B.1.1.7 of coronavirus originating from the UK has been detected on many Covid-19 patients in the northern provinces of Hai Duong and Quang Ninh.
This morning, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Ho Chi Minh City reported 604 people from Covid-19 epicenters and Covid-19 hit areas, according to the Ministry of Health’s announcement.
The National Steering Committee for the Covid-19 Prevention and Control on the early morning of January 31 announced that in the past 12 hours, Vietnam recorded 14 more new cases of Covid-19, all of which are community transmission cases. Noticeably, among these new cases, Hanoi City saw the number of Covid-19 cases increasing rapidly, while Hoa Binh Province was the latest locality with Covid-19 community transmissions.
The consumption of lychees this year has continuously faced difficulties as the traditional export market of lychees still tightens control on imports to prevent the Covid-19 pandemic while new export markets have announced import postponement.
Northern Hai Phong city and Hai Duong province have welcomed big high-tech foreign direct investment (FDI) projects this month, with a combined investment of over US$850 million.