Vietnam reports 20 new covid-19 cases in Ho Chi Minh City among 88 local cases recorded Saturday noon. The HCMC Hospital for Tropical Diseases was locked down today after three coronavirus-positive cases were detected here. The hospital however would still perform Covid-19 testing and treat existing coronavirus patients, said the municipal Department of Health. Visit Vietnam Insider’s homepage for more stories. To fill the void left by the locked down hospital, Cu Chi District Hospital and Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital would take its place starting Saturday afternoon. On Saturday morning, three employees of the HCMC Hospital for Tropical Diseases tested…
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Globally, there are nearly 170 million cases and over 3.5 million deaths recorded so far from COVID-19. COVID-19 affects different people in different ways. Most infected people will develop mild to moderate illness and recover without hospitalization. Given its large population size of 97 million, it is clear that Vietnam has been extremely successful in containing the pandemic. As of June 12, 2021, Vietnam’s Ministry of Health confirmed about 10,00 cases of COVID-19. However, more than 3,700 of the affected patients have recovered and been discharged from hospitals. Vietnam has also recorded 55 deaths due to the pandemic. The latest…
With vaccination rates rising and virus cases declining, there is a hopefulness to this summer that feels exciting and unique. Millions of Americans, after 15 months of heartbreak and sacrifice, are returning to prepandemic activities for the first time. We didn’t want to let this hard-earned moment pass us by, so we asked readers to send us photos of the first moments they felt that something had changed, and that life was returning to something resembling normal. The Great Reopening “After not stepping in a classroom for 15 months and completing the last semesters of my undergraduate career online, it…
Vietnam reports 68 local Covid-19 cases Saturday morning in five localities, putting the infection number since the start of the pandemic to 10,048. The country was hit by a fourth wave of Covid-19 community transmission on April 27. Since then, infections have been recorded 39 cities and provinces. Neighboring Bac Giang and Bac Ninh provinces in the north all reported cases in isolated areas that are related to clusters at their industrial parks, with 29 in Bac Giang and eight in Bac Ninh. HCMC recorded 20 cases, including eight linked to a Christian congregation cluster that was detected on May…
Vietnam took a huge step towards making it to the third and final round of World Cup qualification for the first time in history with a tense 2-1 win over Malaysia on Friday night. Nguyen Trong Hoang is the most capped player on the current Vietnam squad Midfielder has figured prominently in their qualifying campaign He aims to help Vietnam to maiden progression into the decisive third round Vietnam midfielder Nguyen Trong Hoang enters Friday’s penultimate game against Malaysia in Asia’s second round of qualifying for the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar™ knowing that his country are on the verge…
The HoSE has also announced the imminent test of a new trading system provided by the Korea Exchange from June 14-August 8. Amid recurring trading system crashes on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange (HoSE), Minister of Finance Ho Duc Phoc has requested the ministry’s inspectorate to carry out an administrative investigation on the stock exchange. “Depending on the actual pandemic situation, inspectors would hold meetings with the HoSE,” stated an announcement from the Ministry of Finance. In the past six months, the frequent overload of orders forcing the stock exchange to halt market trading has been a major…
Two women struggling with cancer have become Vietnam’s 56th and 57th coronavirus fatalities, the Health Ministry announced Friday. One of them is 65 years old and from the northern Ninh Binh Province. She had cervical cancer and had gone through chemo and radiation therapies six different times. On May 3, she was taken to the K Hospital in Hanoi that specializes in cancer treatment for emergency aid as her cancer developed worse. She got infected with the new coronavirus while staying at the hospital and was transferred to the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases on May 16. After six days,…
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Ho Chi Minh City has planned to give COVID-19 vaccination to all its population as soon as possible and expects that two-thirds of its residents will be immunized by the end of this year, local leaders have stated. Nguyen Thanh Phong, chairman of the municipal People’s Committee, made this statement at a conference with representatives of local businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic on Thursday, with a focus on the vaccination progress. The city has set up a specific roadmap for vaccination from now until the end of 2021 and the first quarter of 2022, under which vaccination will be…
G-7 nations gather to pledge 1B vaccine doses for world, half the doses coming from the U.S. and 100 million from the U.K. “We’re going to help lead the world out of this pandemic working alongside our global partners,” U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday. Visit Vietnam Insider’s homepage for more stories Leaders from the Group of Seven industrialized nations are set to commit at their summit to sharing at least 1 billion coronavirus shots with struggling countries around the world — half the doses coming from the U.S. and 100 million from the U.K. Vaccine sharing commitments from…