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The 13,972 new COVID-19 cases include six imported cases and 13,966 local infections detected in Hồ Chí Minh City (1,497), Cần Thơ (981), Bà Rịa - Vũng Tàu (860), Tây Ninh (727), Sóc Trăng (714), Bình Dương (626), Đồng Tháp (602), Bình Thuận (592), Vĩnh Long (571), Bạc Liêu (537), Đồng Nai (514), Bình Phước (459), Bến Tre (439), Kiên Giang (426), Cà Mau (377), Hà Nội (367), Khánh Hòa (350), An Giang (294), Hậu Giang (286), Lâm Đồng (219), Tiền Giang (200), Bình Định (186), Trà Vinh (165), Hải Phòng (154), Đắk Lắk (140), Đắk Nông (124), Thừa Thiên Huế (119), Gia Lai (101), Nghệ An (90), Thanh Hóa (89), Bắc Ninh (85), Long An (80), Hà Tĩnh (78), Đà Nẵng (75), Quảng Ngãi (71), Hà Giang (65), Nam Định (64), Hải Dương (62), Ninh Thuận (61), Thái Nguyên (57), Quảng Nam (47), Phú Yên (44), Phú Thọ (39), Hòa Bình (37), Quảng Trị (36), Vĩnh Phúc (35), Quảng Ninh (33), Tuyên Quang (29), Thái Bình (27), Yên Bái (23), Lạng Sơn (20), Hưng Yên (18), Cao Bằng (17), Quảng Bình (17), Hà Nam (16), Kon …

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Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính speaks at the forum. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính called for enhanced solidarity and cooperation among nations to ensure inclusive and sustainable growth while addressing an ASEAN High-level Forum on Sub-regional Cooperation in Hà Nội on Tuesday. This is the first ever ASEAN forum on Sub-regional Cooperation for Sustainable Development and Inclusive Growth which was hosted by Việt Nam both online and in-person to create a venue for member countries, partners, regional and international organisations as well as the business community to discuss and define opportunities, challenges, potential and orientations to promote development cooperation in the sub-region. Participants at the forum included Lao Prime Minister Phankham Viphavanh; Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn, on behalf of Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen; ASEAN General Secretary …

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A mobile medical station in HCM City’s Tân Bình District. The city is working on a scheme to have the private health sector become more involved with the care of COVID-19 patients at home. — VNA/VNS Photo Mạnh Linh HCM CITY — HCM City's Department of Health is working to expand the involvement of private healthcare in home-based care of COVID-19 patients in an effort to reduce the burden on public health stations. Nguyễn Thị Huỳnh Mai, chief of office at the city’s department, said that all private clinics can partake in this pilot programme. The plan will be submitted to the city for approval. HCM City has 319 fixed medical stations and more than 340 mobile stations that care for COVID-19 patients at home. Staff at the stations come from the city’s hospitals and district-level medical centres, and they can be mobilised for different areas if necessary. Many health care stations are under strain due to the rising number of COVID-19 patients, and some are asking patients to …

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Children aged 12-15 in Bù Gia Mập District, the southern province of Bình Phước, received their first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Monday. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — A 12-year-old boy in the southern province of Bình Phước has died after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, local health authorities confirmed. He is the third child to die after taking a vaccine in Việt Nam since the country began inoculating children aged 12-17 with Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines in late October, following the fatal post-vaccination anaphylactic shocks happening with two teenagers in Hà Nội and Bắc Giang Province just last week. The boy, named T. from Tân Lợi Commune, was given the COVID-19 shot on Monday afternoon. After returning home and resting, T. complained of dizziness and stomachache so the family took him to receive emergency medical attention at a military-run hospital in Bình Phước. The boy was then transferred to Bình Phước Province General Hospital and later to a hospital in HCM City …

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HÀ NỘI — Young Vietnamese director Hà Lệ Diễm has been honoured in the Best Directing category at the 2021 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam for her film Những Đứa Trẻ Trong Sương (Children of the Mist). Hà Lệ Diễm at the award ceremony. — Photo courtesy of TPD Centre The 92-minute film is Diễm's first documentary. This cinematic work tells the story of Di, a 12-year-old girl descending from the H’Mong ethnic minority group located in Sapa town, Lào Cai Province. The female director highlights the conflicts between ancient customs and modern values and the challenges that ethnic minority children, especially girls, have to face as they reach adulthood. In the production, Di wants to go to school but she was born in a locality with the unsound custom of cướp vợ (bride kidnapping), which hindered her dream of receiving an education. The film reflects the unfortunate consequences of this old, traditional custom, including the risk of kidnapping and …

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Health minister Nguyễn Thanh Long led a working session on the Omicron variant with WHO Representative in Việt Nam Kidong Park, CDC Southeast Asia Regional Director John MacArthur, Director of CDC Việt Nam’s Global Health Security Programme Matthew Moore on Tuesday. — Photo from the Ministry of Health HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam is working closely with World Health Organisation (WHO) and US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (USCDC) in its response to the new coronavirus variant, Omicron, according to health minister Nguyễn Thanh Long. The health ministry on Tuesday held a meeting on the threats of the very concerning variant with WHO Representative in Việt Nam Kidong Park, CDC Southeast Asia Regional Director John MacArthur, and Director of CDC Việt Nam’s Global Health Security Programme Matthew Moore. Health minister Long said as of Tuesday morning, Việt Nam has not recorded any case of COVID-19 with the new variant. The health ministry last week asked the Government to halt …

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High school students wait for vaccination at a site in Hà Nội. — VNA/VNS Photo Thanh Tùng HÀ NỘI — Medics have ruled that the deaths of two teenagers were caused by severe allergic reactions, and were not in any way linked to the administration procedure or vaccine quality. The ministry announced on Tuesday morning that two of the three cases that reported serious complications after COVID-19 vaccination in Hà Nội and Bắc Giang died. The causes of deaths in these two cases were related to grade IV anaphylaxis. Last Wednesday (November 24), 700 high school students at Sơn Động Boarding High School and Sơn Động High School No.2 in the northern province of Bắc Giang received COVID-19 vaccines. Two with milder reactions were taken care of at Sơn Đông medical station in Bắc Giang and were discharged on Saturday afternoon. Two other students, both born in 2005, suffered from more serious reactions, including reports of dizziness, breathing difficulties, chest pain and nausea, and …

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A view of FLC Quy Nhơn in the central province of Bình Định. The province is preparing all resources to be the sixth destination for international tourists. — Photo courtesy of FLC By Vũ Hoa BÌNH ĐỊNH — The central province of Bình Định is preparing to become the sixth destination for international tourists before January 2022, together with  Kiên Giang, Khánh Hòa, Quảng Nam, Đà Nẵng and Quảng Ninh. Lâm Hải Giang, Vice Chairman of Bình Định Provincial People’s Committee, said the tourism industry had been seriously affected and the country needed to work hard for recovery. However, the opening of international tourism depended on disease control as well as vaccine coverage. “The connection among localities and businesses in tourism recovery and development is very necessary. Without this connection, the tourism industry will struggle,” Giang said. He said that the province planned to welcome guests on package tours because it was not safe to receive individual visitors. The …

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Residential areas in Hoài Ân District, Bình Định Province, are isolated by flood water. VNA/VNS Photo CENTRAL REGION – Four people have died after heavy rain and floods hit the central and central highlands regions over the past few days. Bad weather also destroyed 25ha of rice, the Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention, Control and Search-Rescue reported. Two women were swept away by flood water in Kon Tum and Bình Định provinces. They have been identified as Y Hong, born in 1968, from Tây Nguyên and Đinh Thị Đách, born 1956, from An Lão District. Two other women in the M'Drak District, Đắk Lắk Province, were also swept away by heavy floods. Authorities have so far only recovered one body. On Sunday afternoon, a local woman fell into the fast-flowing water while driving a motorbike across the bridge in Krông Jing Commune, Đăk Lắk but fortunately, the authorities reached her in time and pulled her to safety. So far 182 families have been evacuated to safe areas in …

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COVID cases rise across Mekong Delta region More than 13,000 new COVID-19 cases in Việt Nam on Saturday 10,321 COVID-19 cases recorded in Việt Nam on Monday Southern provinces strengthen COVID-19 prevention measures as cases increase 9,625 new cases of COVID-19 in Việt Nam on Friday Secretary of the Hà Nội Party Committee Đinh Tiến Dũng inspects pandemic prevention and control work. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — Mild and asymptomatic F0 cases will be given treatment at home on a trial basis in Hà Nội if they meet certain conditions set out by the health sector, according to the city's Party Committee. At a meeting on Monday afternoon, the Party Committee of Hà Nội asked localities to be well prepared, including in medication distribution, to support F0 cases and ease pressure on COVID-19 treatment hospitals. As of November 29, four districts in Hà Nội have treated mild and asymptomatic cases at the locality, including 39 cases in Hoài Đức, eight in …

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