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Hanoi (VNA) – Those who enter Vietnam from the Republic of Korea (RoK) have been officially required to fill out medical declaration forms amid the increase of confirmed new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the East Asian country, according to the Ministry of Health (MOH). The information was announced in a meeting of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control in Hanoi on February 24. In order to prevent the disease from entering Vietnam, the MoH has asked the People's Committees of provinces and cities nationwide to direct concerned agencies to apply medical declaration for all people from the RoK entering Vietnam at all border gates and airports. Medical quarantine measures must be applied if passengers show signs of cough, fever, shortness of breath, and respiratory disease, the ministry said. The international medical quarantine, preventive medicine, and disease control centres are responsible for printing and … [Read more...] about Passengers from RoK forced to fill out health declaration forms

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam has full capacity and enough kits to perform diagnostic tests for the virus SARS-CoV2 that causes COVID-19, said Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long in a meeting on February 24. The country now has 10,000 test kits provided by the World Health Organisation (WHO) with the accuracy similar to those in other countries, he told a meeting of the national steering committee for COVID-19 prevention and control in Hanoi. The test kit involves real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) so it is highly sensitive and effective, he said. WHO has transferred standard technique for detecting the novel coronavirus for three qualified medical facilities in Vietnam – the Pasteur Institute of Ho Chi Minh City, the Pasteur Institute of Nha Trang and the Central Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in Hanoi, according to the deputy minister. These facilities then have cooperated with WHO to transfer the technique and required equipment … [Read more...] about Vietnam has full capacity to perform COVID-19 diagnostic testing: official

Doctor Hung from the Vietnam Red Cross Society spoke highly of the professionally organized event. He said the Thai Consulate General in HCMC not only frequently organizes meaningful programs like this blood donation drive but also is always willing to help other people. “The consulate once helped me find a missing relative in Thailand,” he said. … [Read more...] about Thai Consulate General organizes blood donation event

The district has yet to isolate visitors from South Korea as the municipal Department of Health and the city government have not issued a directive so far. However, the district has asked the police and the authorities of wards to make a list of people returning from South Korea since this country reported its first coronavirus outbreak and to instruct these people to isolate themselves. … [Read more...] about Quarantine proposed for travelers from S. Korea’s Covid-19-hit areas

According to Hanh, it is necessary to isolate South Korean and Vietnamese people who come to Vietnam from South Korea's coronavirus-hit areas for 14 days at their accommodation. Hanh has asked Hanoi Capital High Command to co-operate with the municipal Health Department for quarantine area arrangement.  … [Read more...] about Measures proposed for coronavirus prevention amid South Korean outbreak