For the second week in a row, Ho Chi Minh City has maintained the pandemic alert level 1, or green zone. There are no districts, wards, communes, and towns in HCMC at the pandemic alert level 3. The number of new cases continues to decrease compared to the previous weeks.
HCMC has maintained its Covid-19 alert level 1 (green zone) for four consecutive weeks and had fewer than 1,000 new cases a week, announced the municipal People’s Committee on January 29.
Ho Chi Minh City has been a green zone for three consecutive weeks without districts in orange zones. The number of new infection cases continued to decline sharply compared to the previous week.
If the Covid-19 epidemic in Ho Chi Minh City maintains at alert level 1 and level 2, the city will organize a New Year Countdown Celebration to welcome the new year on the night of December 31 at the President Ho Chi Minh Monument Park on Nguyen Hue and Le Duan streets in District 1.
The Standing Office of the Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control reported that two people were killed, a person is still missing and five people were injured in the recent flood after an unusual extreme rain. Additionally, the heavy rainfall, whirlwinds and big waves capsized 262 vessels, devastated 2,592 floating cages, 88,055 hectares of paddy fields and 16,177 hectares of vegetable crops.
Students of high schools and secondary schools in districts at the Covid-19 alert level 1 in HCMC will have 30 in-person 45-minute classes per week and take the remaining lessons online, announced the municipal Department of Education and Training.
Under the two-week experimental program on in-person learning from December 13-25 approved by the HCMC People’s Committee, primary schools in Covid-19 alert level 1 areas will be allowed to carry out a resumption of half-day face-to-face classes for students in Grade 1, announced the municipal Department of Education and Training.
Ho Chi Minh City authorities have allowed venues like bars, cinemas and massage parlors to resume full operation in districts of alert level 1, 2, 3 except areas of alert level 4 under a temporary decision signed by Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Phan Van Mai yesterday night.
The return to class of primary school students after Tet holidays will be based on spirit of volunteering, said the Department of Training and Education of HCMC.
Vice Secretary of the HCMC Party Committee Nguyen Ho Hai on January 19 led a delegation of the city’s officials to extend Tet greetings to the Chinese-Vietnamese community on the occasion of the upcoming traditional lunar New Year.
The People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, at noon on December 25, announced the pandemic alert level in the area following Resolution No.128 of the Government. Accordingly, the Covid-19 pandemic level in the city continues to remain at level 2 - the medium risk level or the yellow zone.
Due to the influence of the cold air front combined with high-altitude disturbances of the prevailing wind, from November 14 and 15, there will be moderate, heavy, and torrential rains in Central Vietnam.
After months in lockdown, several provinces and cities nationwide have resumed tourism activities and reopened for visitors under strict safety guidelines.
The Department of Transport of HCMC announced that the city's transportation will be conducted in the following four levels to ensure the implementation of effective Covid-19 prevention and control measures under the Government’s resolution No. 128.
Northern provinces of Phu Tho, Nam Dinh, the northern central coastal of Thanh Hoa and Mekong Delta localities have recently recorded an increase in Covid-19 cases due to people returning to homeland from affected areas.
The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho has just released a temporary health and safety requirements, and Covid-19 Prevention and Control standards to reopen some activities, said Vice Chairman of the city People’s Committee Duong Tan Hien.
