Workers at the Alta Group live temporarily in tents to ensure safety while maintaining production. Photo tuoitre.vn Workers at medical equipment manufacturer Nipro Vietnam at Sai Gon Hi-Tech Park undergo COVID-19 testing. Photo amp.vnexpress.net HCM CITY – When HCM City went into lockdown under Government Directive 16 on July 9, many businesses and manufacturers prepared plans to set up temporary accommodations for their workers to avoid the spread of coronavirus and maintain production. Hoàng Minh Anh Tú, general director of the Alta Group, told Tuổi Trẻ (Youth) newspaper that the business rearranged the factory’s premises in order to set up about 100 tents. Besides preparing meals, the company also has separate living quarters for male…
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Đà Nẵng City has banned local people from swimming in the sea since Thursday until further notice due to complex developments of the COVID-19 pandemic. — VNA/VNS Photo Lê Lâm HÀ NỘI — Đà Nẵng City has banned local people from swimming in the sea from Thursday until further notice due to the complex developments of the COVID-19 pandemic. The move came after the municipal People’s Committee issued on Wednesday night a document to order local people to stop swimming in the sea, outdoor and indoor fitness and sports activities as well as the operation of hair salons to prevent the spread…
Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính (second from left) at the launch of the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign on July 10 where he examines vaccine delivery and inoculation trucks donated by Truong Hai Auto Corporation (THACO). — VNA.VNS Photo Dương Giang HÀ NỘI — Military units are preparing cold warehouses and transportation to help deliver and preserve nearly 113 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines across the country, a top army official has said. Speaking at a meeting on COVID-19 prevention and control at the Ministry of Defence on Wednesday, Major General Nguyễn Xuân Kiên said the headquarters for the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign…
Đặng Amaobi now spends time in training young players in HCM City and also works for several television stations as a football pundit. — Photo courtesy of Đặng Amaobi Thanh Nga After nearly 18 years of living in Việt Nam, retired Nigerian footballer Amaobi Honest Uzowuru has found his second home. Born in 1981 in Nigeria, Uzowuru first played in the V.League 1 in 2004 and enjoyed a successful career. He gained Vietnamese citizenship in 2011 and began going by Đặng Amaobi. Following his retirement in 2016, Amaobi decided to stay in Việt Nam instead of returning…
Trần Thị Hạnh with the gifts from HAGL’s midfielder Trần Minh Vương. Photo courtesy of Trần Thị Hạnh HÀ NỘI — Hoàng Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) midfielder Trần Minh Vương has encouraged a fellow footballer in her fight with lupus with a surprise gift. Trần Thị Hạnh played for Phong Phú Hà Nam in the Vietnamese Women’s Football Championship in Bình Dương and won a bronze medal at the Southeast Asian U16 Women’s Championship with Việt Nam in 2018. However, Hạnh has had to temporarily give up the beautiful game since being diagnosed with the autoimmune disease in November…
Members of the national team celebrate after scoring in the match against Malaysia in the second round of World Cup qualifiers in the UAE last month. Photo: vov.vn Peter Cowan HÀ NỘI — The Việt Nam Football Federation (VFF) has received in-principle approval from health authorities to host the national team’s upcoming 2022 World Cup qualifiers at home. At a meeting on Wednesday between the VFF, the culture ministry, the Ministry of Health, and Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam, head of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, the VFF’s proposal for hosting the five matches in…
A medic takes a sample for a Hà Nội’s resident in Hà Bà Trưng District who came back to the capital from HCM City. — VNA/VNS Photo Minh Quyết HÀ NỘI — Hà Nội’s Department of Health on Wednesday sent an urgent message to the centres for disease control and health centres of districts and towns to conduct COVID-19 testing on 10,000 people. The tests are specifically aimed at those considered at-risk including people working in Thăng Long Industrial Park (Đông Anh District), the community in districts of Đông Anh, Sóc Sơn and Mê Linh; people who work in transport services, drivers, driver assistants, ticket salesmen, people…
Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines. — AFP/VNA Photo HÀ NỘI — Deputy Minister of Health Trương Quốc Cường has just signed a decision on the allocation plan of 746,460 doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to provinces, cities and hospitals across the country. This is the 8th round of vaccine allocation, with previous ones primarily AstraZeneca doses. The first batch of 97,110 doses arrived on July 7, and subsequent doses in the amount would come within this month, the decision noted. Under the allocation decision, the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) of HCM City, which is currently experiencing the…
Olympics The delegation’s chef de mission Trần Đức Phấn waves the national flag given by Deputy Prime Minister Phạm Bình Minh during the Olympic sending-off ceremony in Hà Nội on July 13. VNS Photo Quý Lượng HÀ NỘI — Vietnamese athletes, coach and officials vowed to compete to the best of their abilities at the Tokyo Olympics at the delegation’s sending-off ceremony in Hà Nội on Tuesday. A delegation of 43 members including 18 athletes will take part in the Olympics which will be held from July 23 to August 8. They will join 11,000 athletes from 206 nations at the 33-sport Games that…
A Food Bank Việt Nam volunteer on a motorbike with the meal boxes the charity delivers throughout HCM City. Photo Courtesy of Nguyễn Tuấn Khởi. Gia Lộc HCM CITY— Free meals, vegetable, and accommodation have been provided to people especially the poor, social welfare shelters, and frontline volunteers as well as health workers in COVID-19 prevention and control in HCM City during the 15-day social distancing period. Non-profit Food Bank Việt Nam’s volunteers ride motorbikes with food boxes every day into small alleys where people selling lottery tickets, scavengers and other poor informal-sector workers…