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With the COVID-19 situation under control, the People's Committee of Ha Tinh Province allowed the resumption of business, commercial and service establishments and tourism sites starting from Tuesday. Barber shops on sidewalks are allowed to re-open in Hai Phong City. VNA/VNS Photo An Dang The establishments include wholesale stores, retail stores, lottery ticket sellers, accommodation facilities, restaurants, cafeterias and hair salons. Tourism sites, relic areas, scenic spots, indoor and outdoor sport training spaces, and public places are allowed to reopen, though pandemic prevention and control measures are required. If businesses or their customers violate regulations on pandemic prevention and control, their operations will be stopped and strictly handled. Inter-provincial and intra-provincial public passenger transport services, excluding pandemic-hit localities and areas, can resume if they ensure measures to ensure safety such as collecting passengers' … [Read more...] about Ha Tinh, Hai Phong, Hai Duong re-open some businesses

Staff from Quảng Ninh Province's hospital on their way to help local authorities in COVID-19 hot spot Bắc Giang Province. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — The foreign ministry spokesperson Lê Thị Thu Hằng said reducing Việt Nam's achievements in the containment of COVID-19 pandemic to mere luck is "entirely unobjective," in response to queries for reaction to an article by the New York Times published earlier this month about COVID-19 in Việt Nam. The article, which also included praise for the country’s COVID-19 response, said that Việt Nam prided itself on the success of handling COVID-19 in the past year but that “the country’s luck may be running out as it faces an outbreak in HCM City and the emergence of a new variant". Addressing the Sputnik News reporter who posed the question, the spokesperson said she thinks that “as a person who lives and works in Việt Nam throughout the pandemic, you would share my view." Since the pandemic began, with a view to protect public health and … [Read more...] about Việt Nam’s COVID-19 success not luck: foreign ministry

For thousands of years, people have built their great metropolises right up against the contours of coasts, in estuaries and deltas, confident of the ebb and flow of the tides. Domination of the seas allowed many coastal cities to become trading powerhouses and cultural melting pots. But now that strength is becoming a liability as climate change swells the oceans, redrawing the map and putting hundreds of millions at risk. That's the warning of an unpublished draft report by the UN's climate science advisory panel, seen exclusively by AFP , which outlines the vast and urgent climate threats facing the planet. From the air, you can see the problem. In city upon city, office towers, warehouses and homes crowd the water's edge as if they are jostling to take a dip, major roads hug the shore, landing strips jut dauntlessly into the frothing waves. These cities are on the "frontline", the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report says. "Difficult choices will … [Read more...] about Coastal cities face their mortality on the climate ‘frontline’