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Four Vietnamese citizens and a US national who recently arrived in Vietnam have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, raising the total number of Covid-19 patients in the country to 1,536, the Ministry of Health reported on Friday evening. … [Read more...] about Five more imported Covid-19 patients confirmed on Friday

Health workers, people over 50 and those deemed at high-risk are prioritised to receive one of two approved vaccines, although one has yet to complete clinical trials. On day one around 300,000 people will receive the first of two doses, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi set to launch the programme virtually in New Delhi. Authorities say they are drawing on their experience with elections and child immunisation programmes for polio and tuberculosis in rolling out the vaccine. About 150,000 staff in 700 districts have been specially trained, and India has held several national dry runs involving mock transportation of vaccines. But in an enormous, impoverished nation with often shoddy transport networks and one of the world's worst-funded healthcare systems, it is still a daunting undertaking. Regular child inoculations are a "much smaller game" and vaccinating against Covid-19 will be "deeply challenging", said Satyajit Rath from the National Institute of Immunology. - Bicycle … [Read more...] about India begins mega-rollout of Covid-19 vaccine

In the case, investigators have prosecuted and arrested former Sagri chairman Van Trong Dung and former Sagri chief accountant Nguyen Thi Thuy. Former HCMC vice chairman Tran Vinh Tuyen and Tran Trong Tuan, former deputy head of the HCMC Party Committee Office, were also charged. … [Read more...] about Former Sagri official dies

Trọng said he believed that under the leadership of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party led by Thongloun Sisoulith,  the Lao people will continue to gain many new achievements in the renewal process, successfully implementing the Resolution of the 11th National Party Congress of the Party and successfully build an independent, democratic, united and prosperous Laos in accordance with socialist goals. … [Read more...] about Top leader congratulates newly-elected Secretary of General of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party Central Committee

Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has requested ensuring democracy, fairness, safety and thrift in the elections of deputies to the 15th National Assembly and the People’s Councils at all levels in the 2021-2026 tenure. In a directive dated January 14, PM Phuc asked the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) to coordinate with relevant agencies to direct news agencies to disseminate the significance and importance of the elections, the right to vote and to stand as a candidate of citizens to officials, public servants, armed forces and people from all walks of life. The Ministry of Planning and Investment should instruct the General Statistics Office to guide its provincial and municipal chapters to provide population data until December 31, 2020 to serve as a foundation to count the number of NA and People’s Council deputies at each administrative unit. The Government leader directed the Ministry of Transport and the MIC to work on specific … [Read more...] about PM orders democratic, fair, safe organisation of general elections