Health authorities confirmed 128 new local Covid-19 cases Wednesday evening, most of them isolated prior, bringing the total in the day to 229. Among the new cases, Bac Giang led with 74, followed by Ho Chi Minh City (31), Bac Ninh (16), Hanoi (6) and Hai Duong (one). Most patients are linked to previously confirmed cases and have been isolated. In Bac Ninh, authorities are tracing contact history of a new patient, and the same goes for Hai Duong. Vietnam recorded the 49th Covid-19 death Wednesday, the first fatality in HCMC, a 37-year-old woman with the cause of death diagnosed…
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Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) members can now take up to Rs 1 lakh medical advance against their accumulated corpus for treatment due to emergency hospitalisation without submitting any estimate of the cost. The medical advance is granted for the treatment of any life-threatening diseases including Covid-19. Earlier, EPF scheme rules allowed withdrawal of money from one’s account due to a medical emergency, but the amount was based on estimation of medical expenses or reimbursement of medical bills. The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), via a circular issued on May 31, 2021, has streamlined the process of granting medical advance in…
Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Trade Promotion Agency (VIETRADE) and the Trade Facilitation Office (TFO Canada) signed a cooperation agreement via a virtual conference held on June 1, aiming to improve the export capacity of women-led enterprises in Vietnam during the 2021-2024 period. Women-led enterprises currently account for 25% of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Vietnam, contributing to generating a significant amount of jobs and stable incomes for workers. The signing of the cooperation agreement is within the framework of a project entitled “Women in Trade for Inclusive and Sustainable Growth” conducted by TFO Canada and funded by…
Vietnam recorded 48 more local Covid-19 cases Wednesday noon in three localities, the Ministry of Health announced. A 37-year-old woman with Covid-19 was confirmed dead Wednesday, becoming the first coronavirus fatality in HCMC. Vietnam records 48 more domestic Covid cases Wednesday noon, after 53 Covid-19 patients were confirmed Wednesday morning. 35 cases were recorded in the northern province of Bac Giang, 12 in its neighbor Bac Ninh and one in the central city of Da Nang. All the cases in Bac Giang and Bac Ninh are associated with outbreaks in the provinces’ industrial parks and have been quarantined prior to…
Aviation authorities have decided to limit domestic flights to and from HCMC’s Tan Son Nhat Airport for two weeks as Covid-19 infections rise alarmingly in the southern metropolis. In this afternoon, Aviation authorities sent document to Vietnam airlines, Vietjet, Pacific Airlines, Bamboo Airways, Vietravel Airlines, Airport Corporation of Viet Nam (ACV) and relevant aviation authorities about the operation flights to Tan Son Nhat International Airport (Ho Chi Minh city) Related: Vietnam detects 89 cases to local Covid tally From now until June 14, five Vietnamese airlines are only allowed to operate a total of 63 flights to and from Tan…
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Planning and Investment has asked the municipal police department and the Ministry of Public Security to ‘keep an eye’ on an individual who recently registered for some businesses with a charter capital of almost US$23 billion. A source close to Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper confirmed on Tuesday that the city’s investment department had received the applications for business licenses from three companies. Their charter capital is VND525.1 trillion ($22.8 billion). Among them, the Auto Investment Group, headquartered at Bitexco Financial Tower in downtown Ho Chi Minh City, has a starting capital of VND500 trillion ($21.6 billion). The legal…
The Ministry of Health has a list of instructions that people should follow when they have symptoms of COVID-19 such as a fever, coughing, sore throat, and difficulty breathing. If residents have these symptoms, they should first put on a face mask and isolate themselves inside a room or one specific location at their home, as well as keeping a minimum distance of two meters from others. They are recommended to contact local health agencies or the Ministry of Health via the hotlines 1900 3228 or 1900 9095 for advice and immediately go to a medical facility for examination and…
The Ministry of Health has proposed joining the Covid-19 vaccine tech transfer process by building a domestic vaccine factory. At an online meeting with a representative for global vaccine access mechanism Covax on Monday, Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said Vietnam is hastening progress on buying and receiving technologies for Covid-19 vaccine production so the country could be proactive in inoculating its population. “Vietnam would invest in the factory and wish to be allowed franchising to supply vaccines for Covax, other countries and also Vietnam,” said Long. Vietnam highly regards the initiative of vaccine alliance GAVI and the WHO in creating…
Along with drastic measures against the pandemic, Hanoi has been working on measures to facilitate economic recovery. Vietnam in the first five-month period has nearly 55,800 newly established enterprises with registered capital of US$33.83 billion. The number of enterprises resuming operation in the capital city surged by 51% year-on-year to 644 in May, the municipal Statistics Office revealed in its monthly report. “Local authorities’ supportive measures for the business community remained a key factor leading to high rate of enterprises resuming activities,” stated the agency. In May, the city licensed 2,238 new enterprises with a combined registered capital of VND42.3…
Vietnam will continue to attract both new and additional investments to existing projects, worth billions of dollars. And big investors will demand significant incentives in exchange for the huge capital they bring to Vietnam. Vietnam needs to be more selective when receiving foreign direct investment (FDI), and should set requirements, just as foreign investors do in exchange for being able to invest in Vietnam, experts say. When Apple planned to expand the operation of its vendors in Vietnam, it set requirements on tax, customs and administrative procedures. Similarly, Apple’s rivals, when deciding to invest in Vietnam and scale up production,…