Approximately 100,000 factory workers in the northern province of Bac Giang, Vietnam’s largest COVID-19 epicenter at the moment, will receive coronavirus vaccine shots over the next seven to ten days. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Saturday afternoon convened a meeting with leaders of ministries and sectors and authorities in Bac Giang Province to discuss COVID-19 prevention and control efforts in the epicenter. The province has documented 2,074 local infections since the country was hit by the fourth transmission wave on April 27. Quang Chau Industrial Park is currently the largest hot spot with more 1,520 cases, Duong Van Thai,…
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The agriculture-forestry products and aquaculture-fishery products were two kinds of the commodities with remarkable export turnover growth hitting US$9.69 billion and US$3.24 billion. According to the General Statistics Office of Vietnam, the United States has maintained the largest export market of Vietnam this year as the total export turnover to the market in the first five months of the year is estimated to reach US$130.94 billion, an increase of 30.7 percent compared with the same period last year. Of which, the total commodity export turnover to the United States market reached US$37.6 billion, an increase of 49.8 percent over the…
Vietnam’s national COVID-19 tally surpassed 7,000 cases after 250 community cases were confirmed by the Ministry of Health on Sunday. A total of 2,950 patients out of the total 7,107 have been declared clear of the virus, while 70 patients have tested negative for the coronavirus for three consecutive tests. Vietnam’s COVID-19 tally tops 7,000, as HCM City’s outbreak worsens on Sunday. The northern province of Bắc Giang, the country’s biggest hotspot at the moment, logged an additional 124 cases – all in quarantined or locked-down areas related to outbreaks involving workers at industrial zones and manufactories here – bringing…
The idea the coronavirus leaked from a lab hasn’t been disproved, though a WHO report said it was unlikely. The virus probably jumped to people from animals. Biden gave US officials 90 days to assess both ideas. Here’s a breakdown of the evidence in favor of a lab leak and a natural spillover from animals. It’s the theory that refuses to die: Might the coronavirus have leaked out of a Chinese lab? As long as the mystery of the pandemic’s origin remains unsolved, the question will persist. Increasingly, global leaders are calling for more thorough investigations into the possibility. That…
Many guests come to Tuy Hoa City, in the south central coastal province of Phu Yen, feel that Nghinh Phong Tower is like a work in a fiction film. Nearly a month since its launch, Nghinh Phong Tower has become an attractive destination that has captured the attention of many people on travel forums. Located at Nghinh Phong Square at the intersection of Nguyen Huu Tho and Doc Lap in Tuy Hoa City, Nghinh Phong Tower has a particularly impressive déign. In addition to Twin Tơers, Nghinh Phong square area also has other items such as protection embankment system, park,…
Vietnam’s cashew nut industry experienced a poorer-than-expected harvest this year. While it actually saw growth in exports, value declined. Disease and natural disasters counted among the causes, as did longstanding bottlenecks in productivity, output, and value, which need to be resolved quickly in order for Vietnamese cashew nuts to maintain their leading position in the market. Vietnam’s “cashew capital”, southern Binh Phuoc province, is home to around 170,000 ha of cashew trees, accounting for half of the country’s total planting area. Natural disasters cut production by about 10 percent compared to last year. Workers are scarce and prices are high,…
Vietnam has discovered a new Covid-19 variant which spreads quickly by air and is a combination of variants first identified in India and the UK, state media has reported. The country is struggling to deal with fresh outbreaks across more than half of its territory including industrial zones and big cities such as Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. More than 6,700 cases including 47 deaths have been reported in Vietnam, most of which have occurred since April. “We have discovered a new hybrid variant from the Indian and the UK strains,” the health minister, Nguyen Thanh Long, was quoted…
The city has recorded 126 patients linked to the cluster since Wednesday City’s chairman has ordered social distancing measures to be imposed across the city for at least two weeks starting Monday, amid rising Covid-19 infections. This is the second time HCMC imposes citywide social distancing, with the first time in April last year, when it followed a national order. Chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong said at a meeting Sunday that strict measures are needed as a religious mission cluster in the city has kept getting bigger. The city has recorded 126 patients linked to the cluster since Wednesday, although 33…
Vietnam recorded 49 local Covid-19 cases Saturday noon in four localities, with Tay Ninh Province bordering HCMC added to the list. 46 cases were recorded in Bac Giang and one each recorded in Tay Ninh, Dien Bien and Hanoi’s locked down National Hospital for Tropical Diseases. All the cases in the northern Bac Giang Province are associated with outbreaks at the province’s industrial parks, while the rest of the cases have made contact with existing coronavirus patients. The case in Tay Ninh in particular, a two-year-old boy, is associated with the cluster at the Revival Ekklesia Mission, a Christian congregation…
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