Japan preparing to donate COVID vaccine to Vietnam: LDP lawmaker. Its Government expected to send doses of the jab developed by AstraZeneca. Since April 27 when the new wave started in Vietnam 5,341 local infections have been recorded in 39 of the nation’s 63 cities and provinces. The Japanese government is preparing to provide COVID-19 vaccine to Vietnam as the country struggles to procure enough doses for its citizens amid a spike in coronavirus infections, a lawmaker of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party said Saturday. Upper house lawmaker Masahisa Sato, who heads the ruling party’s Foreign Affairs Division, said in…
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Vietnam will launch a public fund to finance the country’s effort to secure 120 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines by the end of the year, as the country’s industrial northern provinces struggle to control the spread of infectious strains of the virus. The move comes as Hanoi shifts its strategy in dealing with the pandemic from containment to encouraging the population to be inoculated. Since late April, key industrial parks in two northern provinces, Bac Giang and neighboring Bac Ninh near Hanoi, have been urged to tackle to the highly transmissible variants that have forced many factories to either shut…
The fourth wave of COVID-19 infections in Vietnam has caused disruptions to most sectors once again as the country was preparing for the tourism season. This season was expected to help revive the country’s tourism industry after it was heavily damaged by the previous COVID-19 outbreaks. As the whole country has implemented measures to contain the new spread of COVID-19, most famous tourism destinations are now closed, meaning many tourism businesses are struggling to survive, especially small firms. Hạ Long City in Quảng Ninh Province, which is home to famous Hạ Long Bay, is included. From May to September is the busiest time for the tourism…
One of the most important money lessons that the ongoing pandemic has taught us is the need for having the right type of health insurance policy and having an adequate amount of it. However, just having a health insurance policy will not be good enough if the insurer does not honour your claim during a medical emergency. So, how does one select a dependable health insurance provider? One ratio that can help you is the claim settlement ratio; this ratio gives you an idea as to how reliable the health insurance company can be in case you need to make…
The Health Ministry confirmed 75 domestic Covid-19 patients Saturday morning, putting the local case count of Vietnam’s ongoing Covid wave at 5,250. A 63-year-old Covid-19 patient in Hai Duong Province has died, marking Vietnam’s 51st coronavirus death and the 16th fatality in the latest wave. Vietnam adds 75 to local Covid tally, of the new cases, northern Bac Giang Province recorded 45 that are linked to clusters at its industrial parks. Its neighbor Bac Ninh Province got 19 cases, including 10 related to a cluster at the Khac Niem industrial park, seven associated with a cluster at Que Vo industrial…
Despite the hardship brought about by COVID-19, Vietnam is becoming ever more capital-attracting. 2020’s difficulties have barely stopped venture capital activity in the country. In fact, the total value of investments poured into Vietnamese startups in Q1 2021 reached more than US$100 million, increasing by about 34% YoY with foreign investors being dominant, as reported by South Korean venture capital firm Nextrans. Global firms backing Vietnam’s startup scene Emerging from the pandemic while other countries are still in the midst of the crisis is giving Vietnam an advantage. The country’s startup ecosystem has been transformed from the second-least active to…
In less than a week the Covid-19 vaccine fund has received contributions of over VND103 billion ($4.44 million). The Ministry of Finance, which manages the fund, will make public all the contributions, either on its official website or the Vietnam State Treasury’s website. The money in it will be used only for two purposes: buying vaccines from abroad and producing indigenous ones, the ministry said. Vietnam aims to procure 150 million doses of vaccines to cover 70 percent of its population this year, the health ministry announced earlier and estimated it to cost VND25.2 trillion ($1 billion). The government is…
Vietnam recorded 92 more Covid-19 infections as of Friday evening, raising the daily counts to 224 and the total number of patients in the country to 8,287 the Ministry of Health has reported. According to the ministry’s report, 87 of the newly-confirmed patients are locally-transmitted cases most of whom were detected in quarantine sites or areas under lockdown in some localities including 62 in Bac Giang, 10 in Bac Ninh, and 15 in Ho Chi Minh City. The 62 cases in Bac Giang were recorded at some industrial parks of Van Trung, Dinh Tram, Song Khe-Noi Hoang, and Quang Chau…
Vietnam has approved a coronavirus vaccine produced by a Chinese company for emergency use, the third shot to have secured such authorization in the Southeast Asian country so far. Deputy Minister of Health Truong Quoc Cuong signed a decision on Thursday to authorize the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine made by Beijing Bio-Institute of Biological Products Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of China National Biotec Group (CNBG). The vaccine was listed for emergency use by the World Health Organization (WHO) on May 7, according to a press release the WHO posted on its website the same day. The WHO has greenlighted jabs produced…
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