mRNA COVID-19 vaccines like Pfizer/BioNTech’s Corminaty and Moderna’s Spikevax could be used as booster shots no matter the primary course. — VNA/VNS Photo Tuấn Đức HÀ NỘI — Hà Nội has administered over 610,000 third COVID-19 vaccine doses to residents aged 18 years and above so far, according to the city’s health department. Trần Thị Nhị Hà, head of the department, said 172,000 are additional doses (defined by WHO as the third dose for target population where immune response rate following standard series is deemed insufficient, especially in immunocompromised people and older adults) and 441,000…
Author: Kevin Le
Vietnam’s property market remains fundamentally strong, buoyed by underlying owner-occupier demand which has been resilient despite the impact of covid-19 pandemic. The trends of continuing urbanization, rising income levels and migration of business activity from Greater China are expected to continue in the foreseeable future. Vietnam is now widely seen as the next tourism property market hotspot, with a booming economy, coupled with laws that recently have made it easier for foreigners to purchase property. As a result, wealthy international investors and international manufacturers have been flocking to the country in recent years. We talk to Rahn Wood, a long-term…
With a vibrant economic climate, Vietnam remains a strong candidate for investment from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and beyond, according to the Vietnam Briefing newswire. FTAs and RCEP The newswire said Vietnam’s free trade agreements (FTAs) are another pull factor that investors can bank on. Vietnam has used its participation in FTAs as an instrument to ensure increased economic power and financial security. This will ensure that Vietnam’s economic development will continue to shift away from exporting low-tech manufacturing products and primary goods to more complex hi-tech goods like electronics, machinery, vehicles, and medical devices. The implementation…
Here’s hoping in 2022 we can return to packed stadiums like this last seen three years ago in Nam Đinh Province. Photo vov.vn Peter Cowan It feels a little harsh to hold anyone to a New Year’s resolution in 2022 as we enter the third year of life in a pandemic, but professional football is an unforgiving arena. With that in mind, here are a few resolutions I would love to see the great and the good in Vietnamese football stick to this year, just as I will certainly still be going to…
SAVIOUR OF THE SEAS: Trần Văn Cường always spares a place on his boat for collected plastic waste. — Photo vtc.vn By Đào Hằng & Thanh Nga Every time he goes out to catch seafood, Trần Văn Cường, from Phú Vang District, Thừa Thiên Huế Province, collects plastic cans, bottles and bags to raise money for poor students, while contributing to the protection of the ocean. Over the past 20 years, whenever Cường went fishing, he saw a lot of rubbish in the sea. “I thought that if garbage was dumped into the sea, sooner or…
Another record day of COVID-19 cases for Hanoi capital as total cases in Vietnam reached 15,936 on Monday. The capital city made up 2,100 of these new cases. This is the highest number in the city since the start of the pandemic. Among the new cases nationwide, 20 were imported and 15,916 local cases. ###: First patient with Omicron in Vietnam recovered and discharged from hospital The national caseload since the start of the pandemic now stands at 1,778,976. In the last seven days, the country has reported an average of 15,629 new infections daily. To date, Vietnam has recorded a…
Vietnam Airlines has offered tickets for regular flights to the Republic of Korea (RoK), Singapore, Thailand, Laos and Taiwan (China). Earlier, the national flag carrier put up for sale tickets to the US, Japan and Cambodia. ###: Finally, you can now book international flight tickets from and to Vietnam with these airline companies It is awaiting approval from competent agencies to reopen flights to Europe and Australia this month, towards completely restoring international routes in early 2022. The airline is scheduled resume the Hanoi-Seoul (the RoK) route from January 6, the Hanoi/Ho Chi Minh City-Singapore routes from January 12, the…
UK Deputy chief medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam. — AFP Photo LONDON — Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England, has received a Knighthood from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for his contributions to the fight against COVID-19. Jonathan Van-Tam, an Englishman of Vietnamese origin, received his Knighthood in the New Year’s Honours, which also included England’s chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty. Van-Tam, an expert on influenza, has been Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England since 2017. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, he has become famous for his press conferences on the situation that attracted millions of viewers. The Sunday…
The Hanoi-based Military Central Hospital 108 said on January 2 that Vietnam’s first confirmed Omicron case has been discharged from the hospital on the same day after testing negative for coronavirus a day earlier, the NDO reported. The Military Central Hospital 108 treated the Omicron patient, a man who arrived in Vietnam from the UK on December 19 and got positive result for a rapid antigen test done at the Noi Bai International Airport and was moved into quarantine immediately. He did not show symptoms during the isolation period, the hospital said. ###: Vietnam reports a further 14 people tested…
Booster shots of vaccine being administered in Lạng Sơn City. — VNA/VNS Photo Anh Tuấn HÀ NỘI – Daily COVID-19 cases in Hà Nội have reached 2,045, the highest number in the capital city since the start of the pandemic. Hà Nội has consistently had the highest number of new infections in the country for the past two weeks, though this is the first time cases have risen above 2,000 new infections in a day. These figures are included in the 16,948 total new COVID-19 cases reported by the Ministry of Health on Sunday. A further 221 deaths were also announced across the…