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The Deputy Head of the city's National Assembly delegation shared that the Mid-Autumn festival this year comes on the days of stricter social distancing order along with Covid-19 pandemic prevention and control measures and the fight against the fourth pandemic outbreak in the city. For this reason, the gifts contribute to bringing enjoyment, warmth to those children who are leaving home for treatment at hospitals and the Covid-19 medical facilities. Besides, she also expressed gratitude to doctors, nurses and medical workers of the HCMC Children's Hospital, Children's Hospital No. 2 and the Covid-19 Patient Treatment Field Hospital No. 4 and No. 11 who are risking their health, working hard to treat and care for patients, determined to fight  against Covid-19 in the city. Thanks to their tremendous efforts and sacrifices, Ho Chi Minh City is believed to soon control the pandemic and achieve the new normal, she added. Some photos captured during the visits of the HCMC …

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A newborn baby and mother head home after recovering from COVID-19 in Đà Nẵng. — Photo courtesy of Trần Ngọc ĐÀ NẴNG — Two newborn babies who contracted COVID-19 from their mothers have made a full recovering after just a week in hospital. And four other children, under the age of four, have also been declared coronavirus-free after treatment in the central city of Đà Nẵng. Director of the city’s Hoà Vang health centre, Dr Nguyễn Đại Vĩnh said the two babies, both boys, tested negative before going home for quarantine and medical checks on Monday. Vĩnh said the two mothers – who both been had infected with SARS-COV-2 – gave birth on September 7-8 at the field hospital. He said three other boys under four years old, and a one-year girl all tested negative after two weeks at the hospital. They need two more weeks home quarantine under medical supervision. Earlier, a newborn baby and mother were also declared healthy and released from the …

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Reporter Hoàng Tuyết of VNA’s Tin Tức (News) newspaper in HCM City prepares food aid packages for people in need. — Photo baotintuc.vn HÀ NỘI — Vietnam News Agency (VNA) correspondents are not only frontline reporters in COVID-19 hotspots but are also lending a helping hand to those in need. Mỹ Phương, a VNA economic correspondent in HCM City, has called for food donations from local enterprises to support quarantine sites and residential areas in lockdown. So far, she has helped collect four tonnes of food and donated it to local field hospitals. Because Phương is in charge of covering news on the economic sector, she has close relations with local organisations and businesses. A lot of businesses that want to offer assistance to residents and frontline forces have contacted journalists to offer their services. While working on the sites or through relatives, Phương happened to know those in need of help and shared the information …

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At the event, leaders of the Tien Giang provincial People’s Committee briefed the delegation on the province’s task performance in pandemic control over the past time. Since the COVID-19 outbreak, the province has recorded over 12,205 infected cases, including 299 deaths. However, the pandemic has been gradually brought under control thanks to drastic preventive measures. In particular, the province has adopted large-scale COVID-19 testing throughout the locality, imposed lock-down rules in residential areas related to infected cases, applied restrictions on free movement of the people to prevent the spread of the virus into the community, as well as mobilized relevant forces to assist COVID-19 front-line forces in high-risk areas. Touring field hospitals for infectious diseases and COVID-19 treatment areas and hearing reports on COVID-19 prevention and control work in Tien Giang province, General Luong spoke highly of the province’s great efforts in performing this task, …

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It is no walk in the park for Vietnamese doctors to take care of mentally ill people infected with COVID-19 as these patients are often unpredictable and their psychiatric conditions cause them to reject treatment. According to health workers treating COVID-19 patients with psychiatric issues, the patients usually refuse to take medicine, do not wear a mask, cause troubles, escape medical facilities, and even jump off buildings. Unpredictable patients The COVID-19 Thu Duc Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City recently admitted a COVID-19 male patient, who was transferred from a lower-level hospital with a warning about his manifestations of mental illness. Following his admission, the patient wandered around the isolation area despite being asked to return to his room many times by medical staff, before somehow managing to avoid security guards and climb the fence to flee to his home in Tan Phu District only 11 hours later. In Binh Chanh District, its field hospital for COVID-19 …

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Hopes for the ease of social distancing measures and recovery of the economy are rising along with the decrease in the nber of new cases. The Ministry of Health’s report shows that in the past week, the number of new locally-infected cases of Covid-19 decreased compared to the previous week in some localities, for example Da Nang (down 60%), Binh Duong (27%), and Long An (3%). The average number of Covid-19 related deaths per day nationwide fell by 30%. It was 30% down for HCM City, 50% for Dong Nai, 30% for Long An, and 70% for Tien Giang. The epidemic situation in HCM City last week also fell in two criteria: the number of cases in the community and the number of fatalities. Compared to the previous week, the rate of infection cases in the total tested cases in the whole country fell from 1.9% to 1.6%, and from 3.7% to 1.4% for HCM City. Ho Chi Minh City has allowed people to sell take-away food in safe areas. Photo: VietNamNet In that situation, the Government …

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