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The Ho Chi Minh City Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control has issued a set of safety assessment criteria for eateries, food businesses, supermarkets, and shopping malls to reopen. There are six criteria for catering service providers and seven for supermarkets, shopping malls, and food retailers. Catering service - The establishment must have a certificate of food safety. - The establishment must ensure food safety conditions in accordance with regulations. - Employees, customers, and delivery workers must strictly follow health authorities’ pandemic prevention and control instructions. All staff members have to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and test negative for the novel coronavirus. - All people have to follow basic pandemic prevention measures, namely wearing face masks, sanitizing hands, and keeping a minimum distance of two meters. - The delivery area must be separated from the remaining sections, while hand sanitizer, antiseptic, and hand …

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At each hospital, the delegation handed over gifts including 900 milk boxes, 900 clothes, and 900 towels. The gifts were worth VND 600 million totally. Also, the delegation inquired after and encouraged doctors and medical personnel taking care of new-born babies, whose fathers or mothers have died because of COVID-19. According to Assoc. Prof., Dr. Hoang Thi Diem Tuyet, Director of Hung Vuong Hospital, the COVID-19 pandemic has taken the lives of many women, and left many children orphaned. The hospital’s medical personnel have taken care of these children temporarily before handing them over to their relatives, she added. Tuyet expressed her thanks for the gifts and stressed that the gifts would help share difficulties with the hospital in taking care of the children. Translated by Trung Thanh …

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The Ministry of Health reported 11,527 in Vietnam on Wednesday, together with 11,919 discharged patients and 236 deaths. Thirty-five provinces and cities logged 11,525 domestic cases while the country recorded another two imported infections, the health ministry said. The ministry had documented 11,687 locally-infected patients on Tuesday. Nearly 5,900 of the latest domestic cases were found in the community, with the remaining detected in sectioned-off areas or centralized quarantine facilities. Ho Chi Minh City reported 5,435 local infections, down by 1,086 patients from yesterday; Binh Duong Province 4,179, up by 570; Dong Nai Province 930; Long An Province 191; An Giang Province 186; Kien Giang Province 137; Can Tho City 48; Da Nang 10; and Hanoi seven. Vietnam has confirmed 714,497 community transmissions in 62 out of its 63 provinces and cities since the fourth – and worst – virus wave emerged in the country on April 27. Ho Chi Minh City suffers the most with 353,655 …

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According to a survey by the Covid-19 Resuscitation Hospital in HCM City, up to 67% of patients said they wanted to have psychological counseling. Psychologist Tri Thi Minh Thuy talks with a severe Covid-19 patient who has recovered from the disease and is about to be discharged from the hospital. Photo: Cho Ray Hospital. According to the survey, 20% of the patients suffered depression, 53.3% with anxiety disorder, and 16.7% with stress. In particular, up to 66.7% patients who needed High Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC) suffered from depression. Similarly, 66.7% patients who had to breathe oxygen through a mask or mechanical ventilator suffered from anxiety disorder. As many as 67% of patients wanted psychological counseling during treatment and after being discharged from the hospital. The hospital has invited psychologist Tri Thi Minh Thuy from the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City, to survey and provide psychological treatment support …

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Ilustrative image. (Photo: thanhnien.vn) HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City will carry out the third relief package worth 7.3 trillion VND (around 320.7 million USD) sourced from the local budget to help more households and informal workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, said Vo Van Hoan, Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee. poor households with about 210,178 people and a large number of migrant freelancers. More than 7.3 million people need assistance. At the event. (Photo: VNA) “The ultimate goal of the city is to provide support in a practical, fair, transparent and inclusive way to the most difficult persons,” Hoan said. Therefore, he said, it was necessary for local authorities to ensure no duplication or omission happen in the distribution of the relief aid, adding that the payment of relief funds should not discriminate between permanent and temporary residents./. VNA …

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Vice Secretary of the Party Committee of HCMC Nguyen Ho Hai (4th, R) presents gift to Go Vap District’s Covid-19 treatment hospital. (Photo: SGGP) The Vice Secretary noted that District 12 has more than 7,000 Covid-19 patients (F0 cases) who are being treated at home. If the district has not arranged the treatment reasonably, its number of severe patients will increase. F0 cases need to be monitored blood pressure, pulse oximetry and body temperature. The municipal Party Committee has called on businesses to donate medical products of masks, sterilizing liquid and oxygen saturation (SpO2) to support mobile healthcare stations in Covid-19 treatment. He suggested the district improve the local medical system and strengthen the cooperation with the city’s health department. Vinh Tien Joint Stock Company hands over 1,100 medicine bags to the People’s Committee of District 12. Secretary of the Party Committee of District 12 Tran Hoang Danh extended his sincere thanks to …

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Many restaurants in Hanoi cleaned up overnight to prepare for their business resumption after more than 50 days of lockdown. Photo: Duc Thanh Since early September, Ho Chi Minh City has allowed food and beverage (F&B) businesses to provide takeaway services from 6am to 6pm. To ensure that pandemic prevention measures are met, the city has requested such businesses to also apply the stay-at-work model, with continuous coronavirus tests for their staff every two days. Despite the green light, many F&B businesses in the city remain careful. Harry Ang, founder of the Singaporean restaurant chain Lion City told VIR, “It’s a good decision to extend the lockdown and utilise more time for planning the next steps to prevent another outbreak. We have been preparing well, as we know that life will never be the same again. All plans have to be carefully executed according to prevention protocols.” He added that he agrees with the local authorities on COVID-19 tests as a good way …

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A representative of HCM City's Youth Union wears the costume of a traditional character of the Mid-Autumn Festival, as she presents gifts for children of migrant workers in dormitories in HCM City (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNS/VNA) - Many children in Ho Chi Minh City , the country’s coronavirus epicentre, have enjoyed a special Mid-Autumn Festival this year despite social distancing regulations thanks to joint efforts of authorities, organisations and volunteers. In the past three days, the dormitories of migrant workers in Son Ky, Tay Thanh wards in Tan Phu district; Tan Nhut, An Phu Tay wards in Binh Chanh district; and Hiep Phuoc Industrial Zone in Nha Be district have been full of the sounds of happiness with children’s laughter. Youngsters celebrated their Mid-Autumn Festival with mooncakes, milk, small boxes of candy and biscuits, as well colourful paper lanterns. These are in gift packages for the full-moon festival local authorities, youth unions and benefactors, …

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The resettlement area for Long Thanh Airport is coming along slowly The Long Thanh International Airport project is one of the most important transport projects in southern Vietnam for the local and regional socioeconomic development, promoting tourism, and facilitating trade activities. However, since 2018, only 47 per cent of the VND22.85 trillion ($993.7 million) allocated for the airport’s resettlement project has been disbursed and land clearance work has only reached 50.7 per cent of the plan, with nearly 1,250 hectares remaining for handover within 2021. At last week’s online conferences on socioeconomic development and public investment in 2022 between the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) and the country’s three regions, the People’s Committee of Dong Nai, where the project is located, proposed several measures for the MPI to accelerate the project. In particular, Chairman of Dong Nai People’s Committee Cao Tien Dung proposed cutting two sub-projects on building …

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Young artists have come up with unconventional and refreshing ideas integrated with a personal touch to portray the unique beautiful traits of Hanoi. UNESCO has just announced the best works of the “Ha Noi is…” Illustration Contest. The painting entitled “Hanoi’s Street Vendors” by Dang Thai Tuan won the First Prize of the contest In a one-month registration period, which ended on September 9, about 250 young artists from across Vietnam and abroad have submitted their entries to the Illustration Contest “Ha Noi is…”. The contest was organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in collaboration with UN-Habitat and the youth community Vietnam Local Artist Group (VLAG). With various illustration artworks about Hanoi, the young artists have joined hands to promote the capital as a Creative City, a title awarded to Hanoi by UNESCO in 2019. With the evocative theme “Ha Noi is…”, young artists have come up with …

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