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To speed up mass vaccinations, Ho Chi Minh City will vaccinate its people after 6pm, even though local people are banned from going out from 6pm to 6am. They will receive a document allowing them to go to a vaccination site. The information was released by Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Phan Van Mai at a press conference on the situation of Covid-19 epidemic prevention and control in the city on July 28. Two vaccination sites will be set up at each ward. Only people 65 and over and those who have underlying illness must be vaccinated at hospitals. Regarding the policy of allowing Covid-19 patients who have mild or no symptoms to be treated at home and the treatment of Covid-19 patients at concentrated centers in districts, Mai said that, because 70-80% of patients have no or mild symptoms and will recover on their own, if all patients are quarantined at concentrated sites, it will be overloaded. Home quarantine will reduce the …

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Indian General Consul Madan Mohan Sethi speaks at the signing ceremony (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) - The Indian Business Chamber in Vietnam (Incham) on July 30 virtually signed a contract with the Viet Gia Medical Equipment JSC on the purchase of an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine imported from Germany. The machine will be presented to the Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases, with the aim of facilitating the treatment for severe COVID-19 patients in the city. It will be purchased using the money contributed by the Indian community living and working in HCM City and other southern localities of Vietnam, together with assistance from the Consulate General of India in the southern hub and Incham . At the signing ceremony, Indian General Consul Madan Mohan Sethi underlined that India and Vietnam have a close-knit traditional friendship and always support each other in times of hardship. He voiced his hope that the ECMO machine …

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HCM City aims to vaccinate two-thirds of its population above 18 years old in August. (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – All people above 18 years old living in Ho Chi Minh City will be vaccinated against COVID-19, Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Duong Anh Duc told a meeting on July 30. Duc said Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen had set the target of administering vaccine to two-thirds of the city’s population above 18 years old in August. To speed up the work, the city will set up mobile inoculation groups besides fixed vaccination sites, he said, adding that the vaccinations would be conducted even at night. According to the official, most of the vaccines in HCM City now are allocated by the Ministry of Health. One million doses of sponsored vaccines are expected to arrive at Tan Son Nhat International Airport on July 31. Between July 22-30, the city administered about 490,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses. To reduce …

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Ride-hailing drivers are seeing an increase in delivery orders, but much fewer people needing actual rides. Photo: Le Toan Since the metropolis suspended takeaway and ride-hailing services from July 9, many apps temporarily shut down ride-hailing and food delivery services for 15 days in line with Directive No.16/CT-TTg on the urgent solutions to prevention and fight against COVID -19. Ride-hailing drivers are among 27,000 informal workers to get financial assistance from the city, with municipal authorities launching a second support package for people affected by the pandemic under Resolution No.09/2021/NQ-HDND. It has been more than two weeks since the enforcement of the regulation and food delivery driver Le Van Duong has seen his main income wash away. He does not know how to manage living expenses but has received a small allowance from the ride-hailing firm to pay bills and buy food. He hopes that the upcoming assistance from the city will help him to overcome the …

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Vice secretaries of the municipal Party Committee, Nguyen Thi Le (L) and Nguyen Ho Hai  visit people and the security forces in the blocked sites and bule zones  in Cu Chi and Tan Binh districts amid restrictions on social distance. (Photo: SGGP) Vice Secretary of the City Party Committee Nguyen Ho Hai sent his good wishes of health to the local people and presented essentials goods to needy individulas in the Ward 15’s quarter 1 and the Ward 13’s quarter 6 in Tan Binh District. Vice Secretary of the City Party Committee Nguyen Ho Hai (R) visits the local people in Tan Binh District. The delegation also offered medical items to the security force of control stations in the blue zones. In the visit to the quarter 1 in Ward 15, Mr. Hai highly appreciated the public high awareness on protecting their quarters during the Covid-19 pandemic. Mr. Nguyen Ho Hai presents essential goods to a needy household. According to head of the quarter 1 Nguyen Van Phu, the …

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Doctors at Cho Ray Hospital in HCM City treat a patient with COVID-19 (Photo courtesy of the hospital) HCM City (VNS/VNA) - Patients with locally acquired COVID-19 showing no symptoms, and with no underlying disease or obesity, will now be under a 14-day home quarantine , according to new guidelines released by the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health on July 29. New COVID-19 cases with manageable underlying diseases will also be quarantined at home for 14 days. The new guidelines aim to reduce the overload of COVID-19 patients at healthcare facilities and increase the quality of treatment for COVID-19 patients with moderate and severe symptoms in hospitals. A COVID-19 patient under home quarantine must have a separate room with windows as well as a separate toilet, a trash can with closed lid, and trash bags. Separate rooms are not required if members in a family are all COVID-19 patients. Food and essential supplies must be put on a table placed in …

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By the end of the second quarter of 2021, the company recognised net after-tax profit of VND2.014 trillion ($87.57 million), up 71 per cent on-year. Total consolidated revenue including revenue from sales of goods and service rendering was about VND7.097 trillion ($308.57 million), an increase of 282 per cent over the same period in 2020. Of this, revenue from sales was VND6.344 trillion ($275.83 million), up by 541 per cent on-year, mainly contributed by project handover such as Saigon Royal, Aqua City, NovaHills Mui Ne, Victoria Village, NovaWorld Ho Tram, NovaWorld Phan Thiet; revenue from service rendering and others reached nearly VND753 billion ($32.74 million). As of June 30, 2021, the company’s total assets were recorded at VND171.5 trillion ($7.46 billion), up 18.7 per cent on-year. Inventories were recorded at VND103.241 trillion ($4.45 billion), up 18.9 per cent year-to-date, mostly from an increase of project development costs at Aqua City, NovaWorld Phan Thiet, NovaWorld …

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According to the Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers Association, Vietnamese consumers bought 150,481 units, up 40 per cent on-year in the first six months of 2021, in which passenger vehicles saw sales rise 37 per cent, and commercial vehicles grew 48 per cent. The recovery of the car market has nevertheless slowed in 2021 as many dealers such as Toyota, Ford, and Mitsubishi in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and other provinces had to suspend operations to adhere to social distancing measures. For June only, the total industry reached 23,587 units, down 8 per cent on-month, of which 15,802 units were passenger cars (down 10 per cent versus the previous month), and commercial vehicles at 7,131 units (down 5 per cent). Among automobile manufacturers and traders in Vietnam in June, except for VinFast, Honda, and Suzuki, which still maintain growth momentum, the sales of the remaining car manufacturers in the market have all decreased significantly. This includes Ford, which saw sales drop …

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An additional 8,624 more Covid-19 infections were confirmed on Saturday in Vietnam, raising the total number of patients in the country to 145,686, the Ministry of Health has reported. According to the ministry's report, 8,620 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 4,180 in Ho Chi Minh City, 2,075 in Binh Duong, 544 in Long An, 456 in Dong Nai, 335 in Khanh Hoa, 146 in Dong Thap, 123 in Tien Giang, 115 in Ba Ria-Vung Tau, 75 in Binh Thuan, 72 in Can Tho, 72 in Tay Ninh, 58 in Phu Yen, 55 in Danang, 48 in Vinh Long, 46 in Hanoi, 32 in Dak Lak, 28 in Binh Dinh, 19 in Hau Giang, 16 in Kien Giang, 14 in Binh Phuoc, 13 in Thua Thien-Hue, 13 in Nghe An, 13 in Gia Lai, 12 in Dak Nong, 10 in Son La, 10 in Quang Nam, five in Ninh Thuan, five in Thanh Hoa, four each in Quang Tri, Ha Tinh, Vinh Phuc, three each in Lam Dong, Ha Nam, Hai Duong, two in Ninh Binh, two in An …

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The longer the pandemic lasts, the more it will be necessary to see online tourism as a necessary direction to open the flow of tourism and partly limit the heavy losses being experienced in the industry. In the context of the Covid-19 outbreak, with all tourism activities paralyzed, most tourism personnel have had to quit or change jobs, but there are still units and individuals willing to create initiatives and ways to make tourism operate in its own way. Le Hoang with his online tour introducing Vietnamese coffee products to international guests. Immediately, the young guide began to plan in detail the first online tour on the topic of Vietnamese coffee culture, teaching visitors how to make traditional Vietnamese coffee. All he needs is an internet-connected phone, a tripod, a noise-canceling microphone and the necessary ingredients. Because it is an online tour, visitors can closely witness each stage, performed through the screen and interact directly with …

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