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Dương Anh Đức, vice chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee, speaks at a press conference on Monday about the city’s vaccination campaign. Photo courtesy of the HCM City Press Centre HCM CITY — HCM City authorities have set up 100 inspection teams to assess prevention measures at factories and businesses in high-risk areas as ordered by the Ministry of Health. The teams, which were formed on Monday will assess each factory and enterprise in high-risk areas, from low to medium to high risk. The factories and companies that are considered medium to high risk group must improve their COVID prevention measures. Otherwise, they will have to shut down to ensure safety, according to city authorities. The Ministry of Health on Sunday provided an online training session on pandemic-prevention measures at businesses establishments across 21 districts in HCM City and Thủ Đức City, including factories, export processing zones, industrial parks and high-tech zones. Dương Chí Nam, … [Read more...] about HCM City to inspect COVID prevention factories, businesses

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

Hanoi, the city of roughly 10 million people, has around 5.8 million voters. The entire political system has to step up efforts to ensure high voter turnout in the upcoming elections for deputies of the 15th National Assembly and all-level People’s Councils for the 2021-2026 period. Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Council Nguyen Ngoc Tuan and the delegation check the preparation process for elections at Quang Minh village and Thanh Lam ward, Me Linh district. Photos: Kinhtedothi Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Council and the city’s Head of Election Committee Nguyen Ngoc Tuan stressed the view while leading a delegation to check the preparation process for the elections and measures against the Covid-19 pandemic at Me Linh district on May 13. “This is essential to ensure the worthy candidates are elected as representatives for the people,” said Tuan. Tuan urged the local authorities to continue organizing meetings between voters and candidates in the forms … [Read more...] about Hanoi targets high voter turnout in upcoming general elections: City’s election head

A correspondent of Tin Tức (News) newspaper under the Vietnam News Agency interviews a woman about COVID-19. Photo baotintuc.vn Nguyễn Thanh Lâm, director of the Authority of Press under the Ministry of Information and Communications, talks to the Vietnam News Agency on the role of Vietnamese journalism in the fight against COVID-19. Can you give an assessment of the efficiency of the press system in preventing and controlling the pandemic? Over the past one and a half years since the pandemic broke out, press agencies have been very active in covering COVID news. This is the hottest topic covered by media agencies recently. News about COVID-19 accounts for 40 per cent of information in the press. COVID news includes information on responding to the pandemic, safe living skills, the pandemic’s impacts on the economy, the policies of the Party and State to lift difficulties for businesses, and stories about businesses overcoming difficulties to maintain production … [Read more...] about Press plays key role in the fight against COVID-19: press authority boss

Guards posted outside of a quarantined area in HCM City. - VNA Photo HÀ NỘI - Việt Nam reported 248 new COVID cases on Tuesday with 236 local transmissions and 12 imported cases who were all quarantined immediately after entering the country. HCM City recorded 136 cases, Bắc Giang 31, Bình Dương 33, Bắc Ninh nine, Nghệ An two, Đà Nẵng four, Tiền Giang five, Hà Tĩnh two, Hưng Yên two, Hà Nội one, Vĩnh Long one, Đồng Nai one and one in Gia Lai. 217 of the new cases were detected in quarantined areas. The country's total number of cases reached 12,010 community cases and 1,717 imported cases with 10,875 cases reported since the beginning of the fourth outbreak. Of which, 2,772 patients have recovered. Eighteen localities, Yên Bái, Quảng Ngãi, Quảng Ninh, Quảng Trị, Thừa Thiên Huế, Tuyên Quang, Sơn La, Ninh Bình, Thanh Hóa, Thái Nguyên, Hải Phòng, Tây Ninh, Bạc Liêu, Điện Biên, Đắk Lắk, Đồng Tháp, Thái Bình, Vĩnh Phúc have not reported a community COVID-19 … [Read more...] about VN reported 248 cases on Tuesday