Health staff of Hai Bà Trưng District’s health centre discuss with each other before their working shift. VNA/VNS Photo Hoàng Hiếu HÀ NỘI — At 2am on July 17, after being told of the detection of an F0 at Trương Định Street, the COVID-19 prevention and control team of Tân Mai Ward in Hoàng Mai District had an urgent meeting. They met with staff from other units, police, military, health, residential area representatives and the community COVID-19 team to begin tracing, quarantine and disinfecting the area. They also took samples from people who had been…
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Doctors of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in HCM City have treated 880 severe cases in the fourth wave that started in late April, discharging 378 so far.. Photo courtesy of the hospital’s fanpage HCM CITY— Doctors at HCM City hospitals continue to get severe COVID-19 patients, and try all they can to keep fatalities low, including performing caesarean sections on some to deliver babies. On July 28 doctors at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases and Từ Dũ Obstetrics and Gynaecology Hospital successfully performed a caesarean on a patient with severe COVID and delivered a baby boy weighing nearly…
Football Hoàng Anh Gia Lai players practice while waiting for the return of the national football tournaments. The leagues are planned to restart in November. Photo of Hoàng Anh Gia Lai FC HÀ NỘI — The 2021 national football season will resume in November, according to a proposal from the Việt Nam Professional Football Company (VPF). After receiving votes from participating teams, VPF has finalised the reschedule date based on the development of the COVID-19 pandemic. The V.League 2 tournament will restart on November 20 and end on January 14, 2022. The V.League 1 will be from February…
Banks are anticipating increasing risk in lending for securities, real estate, financial and tourism businesses in the remaining months of this year. — Photo cafef.vn HÀ NỘI — Banks will continue to tighten lending in risky sectors including securities, real estate, financial, and tourism business, seeing higher credit risks in the remaining months of this year, a survey carried out by The Monetary Forecasting and Statistics Department, has said. The survey included 95 per cent of credit institutions and branches of foreign banks operating in Việt Nam. The survey found that credit institutions saw an increase in overall credit demand in…
Startups need to identify their core values as well as choose technologies that will be suitable in the distant future. — Photo vietnamplus.vn HÀ NỘI — For many startups, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a nightmare. However, the pandemic has also opened up a number of new opportunities for those prepared to innovate. According to Lê Group, in the first half of the year, the number of firms that ceased doing business was 59,800. However, over the same period, they also recorded the establishment of 78,300 new enterprises, an increase of 11.9 per cent over the same period last…
President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc during his field trip to HCM City. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked HCM City to continue to strictly implement the current high level of social distancing measures. During his field trip to the city on Friday he emphasised to city leaders that the first and most important goal at this point is to protect the health and safety of people and to minimise fatalities. The president said the city needed to strictly implement social distancing measures with each family isolating itself from other families, one village from other…
A police officer checks a delivery person in HCM City’s District 3. The city has created a database on delivery workers to ensure travel restrictions are not violated. — Photo thanhnien.vn HCM CITY — To ensure smooth delivery and distribution of essential goods amid the COVID-19 restrictions, the HCM City Department of Industry and Trade has created a database of delivery staff that can be easily accessed by inspectors and notified the public about businesses that sell essential products. It has apprised district authorities, the police and others about how to identify various people such as shippers working for delivery services and…
Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will contest the women’s 100m heats on Friday. AFP/VNA Photo TOKYO — Jamaican sprint queen Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will make her grand entrance at the Tokyo Olympics as coronavirus concerns loom over the start of the athletics programme on Friday. The reigning 100m champion will launch her bid to become the first woman to win an individual Olympic athletics event three times when she headlines competition at Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium. A new champion will be crowned in the men’s 10,000m, after Britain’s 2012 and 2016 winner Mo Farah failed to qualify, and US great Allyson Felix will figure in…
Illustration by Trịnh Lập The country’s fourth wave of the coronavirus has not even lasted three months, yet Việt Nam was struggling to keep the level of cases under control. More than 100,000 people have tested positive for the virus in the country so far, and the curve is on a steep upward trajectory. Since last week, more than 1,000 patients have recovered each day, but this does not make up for the up to 8,000 confirmed new cases every day. On July 24, the Ministry of Health launched a new network of medical professionals…
Olympics The Việt Nam team at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Eighteen athletes secured slots to take part in the most prestigious sport event in the world. AFP/VNA Photos Thanh Hà “If you are not by our side when we lose, don’t cheer when we succeed,” was weightlifter Hoàng Thị Duyên’s elegant response to those abusing her teammates, after their failure to secure medals at the Tokyo Olympics. Duyên’s online riposte received much support after several netizens targeted Vietnamese Olympians online with numerous insults, such as: “Waste of rice. Waste of money,” “So shamed, so embarrassed!” “2016 Olympics gold…