Covid 19 pandemic

The Ministry of Science and Technology has mobilized and provided support for people and businesses to deliver products that contribute a great deal to the country’s successes against the pandemic. The first Vietnam-made Covid-19 vaccine will be tested on eligible volunteers on December 17, Hanoitimes reported. About 150 students from medical and pharmaceutical universities in Hanoi have volunteered to join in a trial for Vietnam-made vaccine of Covid-19. This is one of successful achievements of Vietnamese scientists after the Ministry of Science and Technology mobilized the country’s leading experts, scientists, and enterprises to carry out urgent technological tasks to respond to the pandemic. Vietnamese-made SARS-CoV-2 test kits, manufactured by Military Medical Academy and Viet A Corporation. Photo Vietnam News Agency/Duong Giang In May, they sucessfully manufactured Vietnamese-made SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic test kits, cultivate and successfully … [Read more...] about Vietnam made technological strides to fight against COVID-19 pandemic

The health sector, hospitals, medical examination, and treatment facilities will further promote the application of information technology to prevent the pandemic. Hanoi needs to achieve the dual goals including controlling the fresh pandemic as well as maintaining production and business activities, especially keeping the polls safe from Covid-19 to ensure the success of the upcoming election of deputies to the 15th National Assembly and all-levels People’s Councils for the 2021-26 tenure, which falls on May 23. Dinh Tien Dung, Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee, and delegates are checking an election point in Hoang Mai district. Photo: Viet Thanh According to Dung, this time, the outbreak flares up in health centers and industrial zones, threatening to claim more victims than the previous waves of infections. “In the face of the complicated and unpredictable developments of the Covid-19 pandemic, the No. 1 goal of the city’s authority in the fight … [Read more...] about Hanoi prepares for general election amid Covid-19 resurgence

Industrial zones will face great danger if a Covid-19 outbreak spreads within their facilities. Hanoi is taking urgent measures to prevent and control the Covid-19 outbreak in industrial zones and export processing zones. This move, under a dispatch issued by Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee Chu Ngoc Anh on May 12, is conducted after SARS-CoV-2 cases were reported in industrial zones in the capital city’s neighboring provinces of Bac Ninh and Bac Giang. Hanoi is home to 38 industrial zones with hundreds of thousands workers who mostly work in close spaces, come and leave workplaces at the same time and share small boarding houses or dormitory rooms. Hanoi urges to protect industrial zones from Covid-19. Photo: Kinhtedothi.vn “Industrial zones will face great danger if a Covid-19 outbreak spreads within their facilities and Hanoi will likely suffer a huge burden dealing with the consequences,” the mayor noted. Chairman Anh said it’s necessary to … [Read more...] about Hanoi urges to protect industrial zones from Covid-19

N.V.T, director of the Hacinco, an affiliate of HADICI, and his wife have smashed the whole system’s efforts in the fight against the outbreak. The directorate of Hanoi Housing Development and Investment Corporation (HADICO) has suspended N.V.T, from the Party and his pHacinco director dismissed for spreading Covid-19 virus iosition of the director of Hanoi Construction and Investment Company (Hacinco) for violating Covid-19 pandemic prevention regulations. T is the first leader of a Hanoi company having broken the city’s regulations and smashed the whole system's efforts in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. The task force has blocked the Center Point Building in 27 Le Van Luong, Hanoi. File Photo The decision was made on May 13 after T was found to be dishonest in his health declaration when he and his wife returned home from the central beach city of Danang, where is dealing with the novel coronavirus outbreak. Many offices and buildings in Hanoi … [Read more...] about A Hanoi company leader suspended from work due to violation of Covid-19 protocols

A hospital in downtown Ho Chi Minh City has found five COVID-19 infections during its recent screening of outpatients. Five of the hospital's outpatients tested positive for the virus on Tuesday after they underwent COVID-19 screening on Monday at Saigon General Hospital, located in District 1 They were then transferred to Cu Chi Field Hospital in the city’s Cu Chi District for treatment, according to Dr. Nguyen Khac Vui, deputy director of the Saigon General Hospital. All these patients, aged 23 to 59, went to the hospital for examination after having typical COVID-19 symptoms such as a fever, a sore throat, dry cough, phlegm cough, and loss of taste on Monday. They were isolated from the very beginning in the hospital’s quarantine area for screening and had their samples taken for testing, said Dr. Vui. The five patients include three from District 1, one from District 7, and the other from Binh Thanh District. The hospital has temporarily suspended its outpatient … [Read more...] about Ho Chi Minh City hospital detects five COVID-19 cases