Vietnam has confirmed an additional 40 more Covid-19 patients who are mostly in the virus epicentre of Bac Giang, the Ministry of Health reported at noon on Wednesday. Health authorities also confirmed a 67-year-old woman in the northern province of Bac Ninh has died of Covid-19. Visit Vietnam Insider’s homepage for more stories. 45th Covid-19 death confirmed in Vietnam Her causes of death were pneumonia due to Covid-19 and heart failure with high blood pressure. She was admitted to Thuan Thanh General Hospital in Bac Ninh on May 11 and tested positive with the novel coronavirus the next day. Her…
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Digitisation has made it possible to avail a personal loan digitally or online. The advent of everything “touchless” in this pandemic age has taken digital personal loans from being just fast and convenient way to take a loan to being the better and safer way of doing so. Perhaps, the offline paper personal loan application process may meet the same fate as a fax machine in a few years’ time. Who is eligible to get a personal loan online? Everybody who is eligible to get a normal personal loan is eligible to get one online as well. So, all salaried…
It is the second batch ordered by the Health Ministry via the Vietnam Vaccine JSC (VNVC) and the fourth delivery to Vietnam. So far, four batches of AstraZeneca vaccine have been delivered to Vietnam with nearly 2.9 million doses, including 117,600 on February 24; 811,200 on April 1; 1.682 million on May 16, and the latest 288,000. Vietnam has to date conducted vaccinations in the first and second stages in cities and provinces with over 1,034,072 doses administered to those in the priority list in accordance with Resolution No.21/NQ-CP dated February 26 on the purchase and use of COVID-19 vaccines.…
Vietnam’s local Covid-19 tally up by 80 Wednesday morning, bringing the ongoing wave’s tally to 2,873 in a month. The country is aiming to have 150 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine by end of 2021, according to Health Minister The new patients were recorded in the northern provinces of Bac Giang, Bac Ninh and Hai Duong and the central province of Thanh Hoa. In Bac Giang, 55 cases are related to clusters at its industrial parks, reported the VNExpress. The 23 cases in Bac Ninh are those that had contact with Covid-19 patients. Hai Duong and Thanh Hoa reported one…
There are several parts of Vietnam where the observers will be able to see on Wednesday a total lunar eclipse as the moon draws closest to Earth. The event, the only total lunar eclipse of 2021, has been dubbed “Super Flower Blood Moon” as the latter draws “super” close to Earth. During the total lunar eclipse, the moon will be on the opposite side of Earth from the sun and completely in the former’s shadow, lending the lunar surface a deep, “blood” red shade. “Flower” simply refers to the month of May. Should the sky be clear, people in Vietnam…
A fund for buying Covid-19 vaccines has been proposed in order to secure vaccines for the following years. Vietnam will also continue developing locally-made vaccines. Visit Vietnam Insider’s homepage for more stories The Ministry of Health is searching for new sources and negotiating with firms for more Covid-19 vaccines. On May 25, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long and heads of subsidiary departments received a total of USD6.4m and one million doses of Covid-19 vaccines from organisations and firms. According to Long, the situation in Bac Ninh and Bac Giang provinces is still very complicated because of the fast-spread virus…
VietNam has about 100 proptech companies, 80 per cent of which are foreign-owned or receive foreign funding. The country’s real estate market remains in the early stages of development, with many problems to solve Visit Vietnam Insider’s homepage for more stories Vietnamese property technology (proptech) firms are attracting the attention of both foreign and domestic investors keen to grab a larger share of the country’s US$500-million market. It is estimated that VietNam has about 100 proptech companies, 80 per cent of which are foreign-owned or receive foreign funding. Among recent investments, hotel booking platform Go2Joy Vietnam raised an additional $1.3 million…
The session started off with a dip to 1,297 points, but climbed back into the green and surpassed 1,300-point in the first 15 minutes of the trading. It stayed in the green for the rest of the session, experiencing an upward trend throughout the afternoon and closing with a gain of 10.6 points. Trading value on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE), on which the index is based, dropped 10 percent from the previous session to VND21.2 trillion ($921.4 million). This was down 10.2 percent from its highest trading value on May 21. The bourse saw 212 gainers and…
The Bach Mai Hospital and the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases have stopped taking new Covid-19 patients; other Hanoi hospitals will have to handle the task. Officials at Bach Mai, one of the nation’s most renowned and popular public facilities, said their Covid-19 field hospital was busy taking care of those with Covid-19 symptoms and those that have been announced free of the novel coronavirus but still need medical monitoring. Since the system to control cross infections at the field hospital is not complete, they cannot guarantee containment if they receive new patients at this time and treat them at…
Five men from Vietnam’s Mekong Delta have been sentenced to combined 24 years in jail for helping nine people to illegally enter Vietnam from Cambodia, of whom four were later confirmed as COVID-19 patients. The People’s Court in An Giang Province on Monday conducted the trial of Phan Phi Hung, 42, Pham Thanh Hap, 26, Truong Chi Tai, 30, Trang Van Ut, 32, and Le Van Dinh, 31, who were all charged for organizing others’ unlawful entry into Vietnam. Hung was sentenced to seven years in prison, while Hap, Tai, and Ut each received a five-year jail term. Dinh was condemned to…