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272 new COVID-19 infections and record-high 238 recoveries seen on Monday

Specialised decontamination vehicles spray disinfectants on Hà Huy Tập Street, Vinh City, the central city of Nghệ An on Monday after a COVID-19 infection case was detected. — VNA/VNS Photo Tá Chuyên

HÀ NỘI — The health ministry on Monday evening confirmed a further 75 new local COVID-19 infections and five imported cases in six localities, bringing the daily increase to 272.

A total of 236 among the 266 new local cases on Monday were detected in quarantine facilities or locked-down areas.

The country’s COVID-19 hotspot, the northern province of Bắc Giang, saw the largest increase with 121 domestic cases connected to known industrial clusters on Monday, followed by HCM City with 82, Hà Tĩnh Province with 22, Bắc Ninh Province with 17 and Tiền Giang Province with 14.

The capital city of Hà Nội saw four new cases, Bắc Kạn Province had one, while the central province of Nghệ An detected the first case during the country’s fourth wave, a 22-year-old woman who is a direct contact of a confirmed patient in Hà Tĩnh Province.

The country has logged 7,523 cases since the beginning of the fourth wave of infections, accounting for the majority of the national caseload of 9,093 domestically transmitted since the beginning of the pandemic last year.

A total of 238 patients were given the all-clear today, the biggest number of recoveries recorded in a single day in Việt Nam to date, pushing the total to 4,236.

The country has recorded 61 COVID-19 related deaths, including two new victims today.

Twenty-one provinces – Yên Bái, Quảng Ngãi, Đồng Nai, Quảng Ninh, Quảng Nam, Quảng Trị, Thừa Thiên Huế, Nam Định, Hòa Bình, Tuyên Quang, Sơn La, Ninh Bình, Thanh Hóa, Thái Nguyên, Hưng Yên, Hải Phòng, Tây Ninh, Gia Lai, Bạc Liêu, Điện Biên, and Đắk Lắk – have gone 14 days without new infections.

Since April 27, a total of 2,165,826 COVID-19 testing samples have been collected and processed.

COVID-19 standing division in HCM City

Due to the large outbreak in HCM City, the health ministry on Monday announced its decision to establish a standing division for COVID-19 prevention and control in HCM City after the city’s leader announced the extension of social distancing orders .

The division is headed by deputy health minister Nguyễn Trường Sơn, who has just wrapped up his support mission to hotspot province of Bắc Giang.

Sơn will be assisted by three deputy heads from local medical establishments – Director of Chợ Rẫy Hospital Nguyễn Tri Thức; Director of HCM City Pasteur Institute Phan Trọng Lân, and Director of HCM City Institute of Public Health Đặng Văn Chính.

The division aims to support professional activities in responding to the outbreak, patient treatment, testing, quarantine, and communications work in the city and neighbouring localities.

It will also inspect and assist the city’s implementation of COVID-19 prevention and control measures in line with the directions of the Party Secretariat, the Government, the Prime Minister, and the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, as well as professional guidance of the Ministry of Health.

The ministry requested the municipal Department of Health direct relevant agencies and district-level authorities to work with the unit and follow its professional recommendations. — VNS

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Vietnam receives 1 million Covid-19 vaccine doses from Japan

Vietnam is one of the countries in Southeast Asia having the lowest rate of vaccinated people with 1.4% of the population injected.

Japan will donate one million coronavirus vaccine doses to Vietnam, said Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Yamada Takio at a meeting with Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh in Hanoi on June 15.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, right, and Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Yamada Takio in Hanoi. Photo: baochinhphu.vn

In a message sent to the Vietnamese Government’s leader, Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide emphasized that the donation is evidence of the deep friendship between Vietnam and Japan. Japan wishes to cooperate with the international community, especially Vietnam, to overcome the Covid-19 pandemic.

At the meeting, Ambassador Yamada also announced that Japanese associations and 36 businesses in Vietnam have donated VND39.2 billion to the Vietnam Fund for Vaccination Prevention of Coronavirus Disease 2019. They will contribute more to the fund.

Prime Minister Chinh, on behalf of the Vietnamese Government and people, expressed his sincere thanks to his Japanese counterpart Suga Yoshihide, the Japanese Government, and people for the donation to the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.

“This is a precious and timely gift, showing sympathy and mutual sharing in times of difficulty, proving the friendship between the governments and people of the two countries,” Chinh said.

Chinh also thanked foreign associations and businesses in Vietnam, including Japanese businesses, for their meaningful contribution to support the Government and people of Vietnam in the Covid-19 prevention and control.

According to Kyodo News , the provision of the vaccine developed by Britain’s AstraZeneca Plc and produced under license in Japan came in response to a request from Vietnam. It follows Japan’s donation of 1.24 million shots to Taiwan earlier in the month.

“After considering comprehensively the infection situation (in Vietnam), the shortage of vaccines and relationship with Japan, we have come to that decision,” Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi at a press conference held in Tokyo on June 15.

Vietnam is well-known for its successful containment of the Covid-19 outbreak that has occurred in the country since early last year, however, it is facing coronavirus variants that combine characteristics of strains first detected in Britain and India.

Vietnam is one of the countries in Southeast Asia having the lowest rate of vaccinated people with 1.4% of the population injected.

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Becamex IDC aids mass COVID-19 testing in Binh Duong’s IPs

Becamex IDC aids mass COVID-19 testing in Binh Duong's IPs hinh anh 1 At the signing ceremony (Photo: VNA)

Binh Duong (VNA) – Industrial, urban and transport infrastructure developer Becamex IDC Corp on June 14 signed an agreement to offer 40 billion VND (1.74 million USD) for the purchase of medical equipment and materials for mass COVID-19 testing in the southern province of Binh Duong, particularly at local industrial parks.

During the fourth wave of COVID-19 outbreaks, which hit Vietnam in late April, Binh Duong recorded infections in a number of businesses, one of which was blockaded with 600 workers put under quarantine.

According to a representative of Becamex IDC, the company has also worked to assist COVID-19 testing at the local Becamex International Hospital, My Phuoc General Hospital, and medical centre of Tan Uyen township.

Earlier, the corporation donated 25 billion VND to the national fund for COVID-19 prevention and control./.

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Vietnam confirms 80 more Covid-19 infections, Monday tally rises to 272

Vietnam recorded 80 more Covid-19 infections as of Monday evening, raising the daily counts to 272 and the total number of patients in the country to 10,810, the Ministry of Health has reported.

According to the ministry’s report, 75 of the newly-confirmed patients are locally-transmitted cases most of whom were detected in quarantine sites or areas under lockdown in some localities including 29 in Bac Giang, 26 in Ho Chi Minh City, 11 in Ha Tinh, eight in Bac Ninh, and one in Nghe An.

The outbreak in Ho Chi Minh City has become more complicated, especially following detection of a chain of transmission at its Hospital for Tropical Diseases. Fifty-five employees of the hospital have tested positive for the virus. The HCM City Centre for Diseases Control is working closely with the hospital to carry out contact tracing, isolation, testing and disinfection.

The 29 cases in Bac Giang were recorded at some local industrial parks which have reported a large outbreak over the last few weeks.

As of Monday evening, 7,598 locally-transmitted cases have been reported since the new outbreak occurred in the country on April 27, including 4,166 in the virus epicentre of Bac Giang. The outbreak has so far spread to 40 cities and provinces nationwide.

Five imported patients are all Vietnamese people who recently returned from South Korea, the UK, the UAE, Singapore, and Indonesia.


With these new infection cases, the number of Covid-19 patients in Vietnam has increased to 10,810 including 9,168 locally-transmitted cases.

As of 6 pm on June 14, a total of 4,235 Covid-19 patients had recovered and been discharged from hospital.

So far there have been 61 deaths, most of them being the elderly with serious underlying diseases.

At present, over 196,000 people who had close contact with Covid-19 patients or returned from virus-hit areas are being monitored at hospitals, quarantine facilities, and at home.

On June 13, an additional 43,222 people were given Covid-19 vaccine in Vietnam, raising the total number of vaccine doses used in the country to 1,498,323. The number of people who have received two doses has risen to 55,265.

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71 more Covid-19 patients confirmred on Tuesday morning

Vietnam announced 71 more Covid-19 infections as of Tuesday morning, raising the total number of patients in the country to 10,881, the Ministry of Health has reported.

According to the ministry’s report, 70 of the newly-confirmed patients are locally-transmitted cases most of whom were detected in quarantine sites or areas under lockdown in some localities including 28 in Bac Giang, 23 in Ho Chi Minh City, and 19 in Bac Ninh.

The outbreak in Ho Chi Minh City has become more complicated, especially following detection of a chain of transmission at its Hospital for Tropical Diseases. Over 50 employees of the hospital have tested positive for the virus. The HCM City Centre for Diseases Control is working closely with the hospital to carry out contact tracing, isolation, testing and disinfection.

The 28 cases in Bac Giang were recorded at some local industrial parks which have reported a large outbreak over the last few weeks.

As of Tuesday morning, 7,668 locally-transmitted cases have been reported since the new outbreak occurred in the country on April 27, including 4,194 in the virus epicentre of Bac Giang. The outbreak has so far spread to 40 cities and provinces nationwide.

One imported patient is a 36-year-old Vietnamese man who recently returned from abroad. He was sent to a quarantine area in Tay Ninh Province upon arrival and is now being treated at a local hospital.

With these new infection cases, the number of Covid-19 patients in Vietnam has increased to 10,881 including 9,238 locally-transmitted cases.

As of 6 am on June 15, a total of 4,236 Covid-19 patients had recovered and been discharged from hospital.

So far there have been 61 deaths, most of them being the elderly with serious underlying diseases.

At present, over 182,000 people who had close contact with Covid-19 patients or returned from virus-hit areas are being monitored at hospitals, quarantine facilities, and at home.

On June 14, an additional 54,328 people were given Covid-19 vaccine in Vietnam, raising the total number of vaccine doses used in the country to 1,552,651. The number of people who have received two doses has risen to 59,608.

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Health ministry wants to speed up COVID-19 vaccine rollout, administered doses reached 1.5m

A resident of Côn Đảo Island District off the coast of southern Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province was vaccinated against COVID-19 on June 12. — VNA/VNS Photo

HÀ NỘI — The Ministry of Health has sent a document to major epidemiological institutes urging them to speed up the COVID-19 vaccination rollout.

The document, dated on Monday, was sent to the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, the Pasteur Institutes in HCM City and Nha Trang City, and the Tây Nguyên Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology.

According to the ministry, all localities and relevant units have received COVID-19 vaccines for the third phase of the vaccination programme and began inoculations.

The third phase comprises Oxford/AstraZeneca doses, with 1,682,200 delivered from COVAX via UNICEF on May 16, and 288,000 delivered on May 25 as part of a deal for 30 million doses with AstraZeneca within 2021.

AstraZeneca doses from COVAX and the order with the manufacturer also made up the primary supply of the first and second phase of inoculation drive in Việt Nam, which to date, still prioritises frontline workers and recently, workers in severe outbreaks connected to industrial zones in the two northern provinces of Bắc Giang and Bắc Ninh.

Bắc Ninh’s health authorities recently said all 150,000 doses allocated for third phase of vaccination had been administered, with 90,000 workers at industrial zones in the province receiving one dose.

Under Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính’s instructions on speeding up the administering of COVID-19 vaccinations, the ministry has asked the units and localities to complete the work before June 18.

The ministry has also asked the institutes to send technical groups to cities and provinces to supervise vaccinations there.

The same day, the ministry sent another document to the Ministries of National Defence and Public Security, and People’s Committees of cities and provinces to speed up the programme.

According to a Tuesday morning report from the health ministry, a further 54,328 doses of COVID-19 vaccine were administered on Monday, bringing the national total to 1,552,651.

A total of 59,608 people have been fully vaccinated with two doses.

The Central Lung Hospital on Tuesday said it gave the vaccine shots to 600 members of foreign diplomatic missions and organisations under the United Nations’ system in Việt Nam on June 9-10.

Vietnamese diplomats and staff in missions overseas have also been inoculated against COVID-19 with various types of vaccines depending on local availability. VNS