Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam (second, left) talks with city district leaders at a field hospital in a residential area in Tân Thới Ward in HCM City’s District 12. Photo Đình Nam HCM CITY — The HCM City health sector has proposed reducing the time of hospitalisation for COVID-19 patients who are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms to ten days to reduce hospital overcrowding amid the surging number of cases in the city. Nguyễn Tấn Bỉnh, director of the city Health Department, has proposed specific testing conditions for F0 cases (COVID-19 patients) and F1 cases (close contacts of F0 cases) to the Special…
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With thousands of active COVID-19 cases keeping a distance is now essential in HCM City. Some supermarkets have staff picking up groceries for customers, and online shopping has become even more popular than before. How do you choose to shop during this critical time? — VNS SportNews / Times24H
A Saigontourist Group hotel offers free accommodation for frontline doctors and medical staff. Photo courtesy of nld.com.vn HCM CITY – More than 20 hotels in HCM City are offering free accommodations and meals for frontline doctors and other medical staff fighting the pandemic. According to the HCM City Department of Tourism, about 50,000 free nights are reserved, indicating the sector’s effort to join hands with authorities in COVID-19 prevention and control. Specifically, the Saigontourist Group has provided 6,150 free nights and three meals per day for doctors at Phạm Ngọc Thạch Hospital, Cần Giờ COVID-19 Treatment Hospital and HCM City University Medical Centre while also planning to help 3,000 doctors, nurses…
The US and Việt Nam on Monday reached an agreement regarding the US concerns about Việt Nam’s currency practises. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam has pledged not to manipulate its exchange rate in order to gain an unfair competitive advantage and will refrain from any competitive devaluation of the Vietnamese đồng, the State Bank of Việt Nam has said in a joint statement with the US Treasury. The US raised its concerns about Việt Nam’s currency practices in a virtual meeting on Monday between US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen and the State Bank of Việt Nam…
A nurse in the northern province of Vĩnh Phúc prepares a COVID-19 vaccine shot. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam is expected to receive 3 million doses of the Moderna vaccine donated by the US government through the COVAX facility this week, said Prof. Dr. Đặng Đức Anh, Director of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology. That shipment would bring the total vaccine assistance from the US to Việt Nam to 5 million doses of Moderna, after the first delivery via COVAX on July 9. In addition, the country will get 100,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine donated by the…
The Mỹ Đình National Stadium in Hà Nội will install a video assistant referees (VAR) for upcoming matches in the final round of 2022 World Cup qualifiers. AFP/VNA Photo HÀ NỘI — Video assistant referee (VAR) technology will be applied at the Mỹ Đình National Stadium for the matches of Vietnamese team during the final round of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers, according to the Việt Nam Football Federation. This will be the first time, in the history of Vietnamese football, that VAR will be used domestically. The Việt Nam Professional Football Jointstock Company…
HCM CITY — In order to ensure food supply and stable prices, the HCM City Department of Industry and Trade has set up 3,001 price-stabilisation points in supermarkets, convenience stores and 388 mobile sales points in city districts and Thủ Đức City. The department has also worked with suppliers to organise mobile price-stabilisation sales points to help the poor and disadvantaged, as well as people living in quarantined and locked-down areas. City authorities have also demanded that supermarkets and convenience stores handle the selling of goods at higher prices. The move came as local media reported that speculators were taking advantage of the pandemic to buy goods in bulk and resell them at sky-high prices. A mobile…
Hà Nội FC and Hải Phòng in action earlier this year. VPF Photo Peter Cowan It’s all over bar the shouting, and boy will there be a lot of shouting. With Friday’s news that the Việt Nam Professional Football (VPF) Company has proposed postponing the 2021 domestic season until February next year due to the worsening COVID-19 situation, it looks like we’ve seen the last of club football in Việt Nam this year. Yes, the proposal still needs to be approved by Việt Nam Football Federation (VFF) and clubs still have to have their say…
A resident of Huổi Luông Commune, Phong Thổ District, gets the COVID-19 vaccine jab on Monday. — VNA/VNS Photo Nguyễn Oanh LAI CHÂU — The northern province of Lai Châu has started to give Sinopharm’s Vero Cell COVID-19 vaccine shots to residents in border communes in Phong Thổ District. The doses are from a batch of 500,000 doses provided by the Chinese Government, which will be given to three groups of people: Chinese people working and staying in Việt Nam, Vietnamese people who are going to China for study or trade purposes, and people who are at a high risk…
A room designed to treat COVID-19 patients at Long An General Hospital in southern Long An Province. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — The Ministry of Health has asked hospitals nationwide to strengthen health check-up and treatment services to ensure enough resources for COVID-19 patients. This move is a part of efforts to cope with the complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic after an increase in terms of new cases and critically ill patients, particularly in response to serious situations in a number of localities. The ministry requires all hospitals at district-level and level-2 hospitals to have at least two central oxygen systems…