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A flight transporting 343 Vietnamese people from South Korea for Covid-19 prevention landed at HCM City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport on Sunday. Upon arrival, the people, including six children aged below one and eight pregnant women, were taken to a quarantine centre of the People's Police Higher School in the southern province of Dong Nai. Sterilisation and health declarations were then carried out. The people repatriated from South Korea sent to a quarantine area of the People's Police Higher School … [Read more...] about 343 Vietnamese nationals repatriated from South Korea

The central province of Quang Tri has reported eight more diphtheria cases, comprised of children aged between 1 and 12. According to Do Van Hung, Director of the provincial Department of Health, the patients are from Son Ngan Village in Gio Linh District. A diphtheria testing sample being taken … [Read more...] about More diphtheria infections confirmed in Quang Tri

Phan Trong Tue, chief nurse of the hospital’s Intensive Care Ward, said that the patient’s family is very poor while she needs urgent treatment due to her severe condition. The burns have affected up to 65% of Thao’s body with 40% being serious, said Dr Le Quang Thao from the hospital. Doctors have conducted skin transplants and she would need more surgery. Her daily treatment fees alone are around VND7-8 million (USD304.34-347.82), excluding health insurance. Thao’s son Ho Van Hung said that his father died 10 years ago and since then his mother was the main breadwinner. She works for a fish processing workshop. She used to catch fish and then bake or steam them for sale. On the night of August 1, she unluckily slipped and then fell into the fish roaster. She was taken to a local hospital, but doctors there decided to send her to the National Institute of Burns in Hanoi due to her critical state. The family tried to borrow money from different sources to pay … [Read more...] about Widow with serious burns in dire need of support