Anyone over the age 18 can choose one of two ways to register for their vaccination online Based on the information provided, authorities will arrange vaccination schedules for each group Visit Vietnam Insider’s homepage for more stories. Vietnamese nationals and foreigners can now register online for COVID-19 vaccines, according to Nguyễn Trường Nam, Deputy Head of the Information Technology Department of the Ministry of Health. The ministry has confirmed that anyone over the age 18 can choose one of two ways to register for their vaccination online. “The entire process, from registering for online vaccination to looking up vaccination history…
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If you have recently received an SMS from a private mobile number stating: Dear customer your SBI Bank account has been suspended for KYC please complete your KYC 10 min immediately click here link, then beware! This is yet another KYC scam. In order to spread awareness among customers about KYC frauds that have been doing the rounds, the country’s largest bank, (SBI) put out a tweet on Monday via its official Twitter handle. “KYC fraud is real, and it has proliferated across the country. The fraudster sends a text message pretending to be a bank/company representative to get your…
Many hotels put up for sale across the country as owners suffer big losses caused by the shortage of customers due to the latest wave of Covid-19. According to our research, hundreds of hotels for sale could be seen in Ha Long, Nha Trang, Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City, and other places as the pandemic continues to decimate the hospitality industry. Average hotel occupancy in HCMC in the first six months was 18 percent, up only 5 percentage points for the same period in 2020, the real estate consultancy Savills reported. “During the fourth Covid-19 wave in the second…
Renova Cloud has achieved Amazon RDS and AWS Public Partner status in recognition of enhanced capabilities through Amazon Web Services (AWS). The designation acknowledges deep expertise in “migrating enterprise workloads to AWS inclusive of the databases”. Advanced consulting partners that achieve such status within the AWS Partner Network (APN) specialise in the delivery of services and offerings across strategy, professional services and managed infrastructure. Use of the cloud has skyrocketed in recent years and analysts reckon that the global cloud spend will be in excess of US$500 billion over the next few years. In Asean, the spend on digital initiatives…
Without tourists, luxury hotels in Vietnam are providing culinary tours, river cruises and other entertainment services to maintain cash flow amid the Covid-19 pandemic. More stories at Vietnam Insider’s homepage. With the fourth coronavirus wave growing worse in many localities, resulting in lockdowns and travel restrictions, five-star hotels across Vietnam stand near empty. Though room prices have been reduced by up to 60 percent, current occupancy rates remain at less than 10 percent. Without revenues, five-star hotels have been forced to offer luxury services to local tourists to remain afloat. Culinary tour The Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi is offering a…
Two out of three wholesale markets in HCMC are set to be partly reopened soon to meet rising demand for supplies. More stories at Vietnam Insider’s homepage. Managers of Thu Duc Market in Thu Duc City said they started trialing transporting scheme with six vendors Sunday evening, delivering a total 249 tonnes of fruit and vegetables. “We hope vendors can arrange more workers to unload goods to increase volume as both HCMC and Binh Duong Province are under lockdown,” an anonymous manager said. In Hoc Mon Market of Hoc Mon District, managers have submitted a plan to partly reopen the…
The government set a target of immunizing two-thirds of the population against COVID-19 by the first quarter of next year Local authorities will establish 630 vaccination sites at 312 district-level medical centers Visit Vietnam Insider’s homepage for more stories Ho Chi Minh City authorities are planning to administer 1.1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine in its upcoming vaccination program, which is expected to last for two to three weeks. The municipal Department of Health convened a teleconference with local healthcare facilities on Sunday afternoon to discuss the organization of the city’s fifth inoculation campaign. The city is expected to be…
HCM City has planned to use local schools as Covid-19 quarantine facilities as the city has continued to witness a sharp rise in local infections. On Sunday, the municipal Department of Education and Training conveyed the plan to the headmaster of local high schools, and teaching centres for continued education and the department’s vocational training schools to make preparations. The headmasters have been asked to co-operate with Thu Duc District’s Steering Board for Covid-19 Prevention and Control for the plan implementation. The use of schools for quarantine needs to be reported to the department regularly. HCM City is now home…
In-person dining, hairdresser salons and barbershops will be closed again from tomorrow, July 13 Hanoi capital will once again enforce further restrictions on non-essential services in response to growing risks of COVID-19 transmission from arrivals from outbreak-hit regions as well as insufficient public observance of COVID prevention measures. Dine-in services at restaurants and other food and beverage establishments will no longer be allowed starting July 13, though takeaway services can remain operational, according to an urgent dispatch on Monday signed by Chu Ngoc Anh, the Chairman of Hanoi People’s Committee, Vietnam News Agency reported. The ban on outdoor physical exercise…
Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index plunged by up to 73.36 points at a certain point Monday morning, a historic amount, as panic selling flooded the market. The index started tumbling since the start of the session after going down two sessions in a row last week and fell by 73.36 points at around 11 a.m. before climbing to 1,291 points, the lowest since May 21. More stories at Vietnam Insider’s homepage. Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index plunged by up to 73.36 points at a certain point Monday morning, a historic amount, as panic selling flooded the market.The index started tumbling since the start of…