Từ khóa: #SARS-CoV-2 virus

People's negligent attitude towards the disease would fail in prevention tasks.

The Pasteur Institute of HCMC had identified new Omicron sub-variants from samples of community epidemiological surveillance conducted by the HCMC Center for Disease Control (HCDC), including XBB.1.5, XBB.1.9.1, XBB.1.16, and XBB.1.16.1.

According to the Vietnamese Ministry of Health’s latest circular, Covid-19 health insurance policies will also cover Omicron infection treatment costs.

Vietnam still approves use of Covid antibody treatment Evusheld as it is still effective against subvariants circulating in the Southeast Asian country.

When the fourth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic broke out in Vietnam, drugs for treating Covid-19 were advertised widely on social networks. Over the past time, experts have continuously warned that it is extremely dangerous for people to arbitrarily use drugs of unknown origin without a doctor’s prescription.

Minister of Industry and Trade (MoIT) affirms that Vietnam's export goods do not contain the SARS-CoV-2 virus, unlike some sources have stated.

The information that a GrabBike driver in Ho Chi Minh City was infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus recently has made both ride-hailing drivers and users worried. In the context that e-commerce activities are encouraged to limit the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, this information raises questions on the pandemic prevention in the delivery activity when shopping online.

The Department of Health of Ha Tinh Province, on the morning of June 6, informed that there were three more positive cases of SARS-CoV-2 virus in the province relating to two Covid-19 patients in Doai Thinh Village in Thach Trung Commune in Ha Tinh City.

On the morning of June 6, the Department of Health of Ha Tinh Province informed that two more F1 cases of two Covid-19 cases in Doai Thinh Village in Thach Trung Commune in Ha Tinh City gave positive test results with SARS-CoV-2 virus.

On the afternoon of May 28, the Center for Disease Control of Ho Chi Minh City (HCDC) confirmed two more F1cases related to the couple who visited Hoan My Hospital on the afternoon of May 27, with suspected results of SARS-CoV-2 infection. The total number of this chain of infection is four cases. Through the initial investigation, these cases are determined not related to the outbreak in the religious mission in Go Vap District.

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.

Vietnam has no new COVID-19 cases to report in the past 12 hours to 6 a.m. of February 20, while the number of recoveries is 1,627, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

Deputy Minister of Health Do Xuan Tuyen, on February 6, had an urgent meeting with the Department of Health of Ho Chi Minh City and Binh Duong Province on matters related to Patient 1,979, a Tan Son Nhat Airport staff member.

The Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control (HCDC), on the morning of February 7, issued an urgent notice to look for people who had been to Military Hospital 175 on February 3 and 5 because it was related to Patient 1,979, an employee of Tan Son Nhat Airport, living in Thuan An City in Binh Duong Province. 

In the morning of July 28, Dong Nai Province’s Health Department sent four cases with fever and cough symptoms to centralized quarantine areas.