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The Ministry of Health announced 3,636 more COVID-19 patients in Vietnam on Thursday, together with 1,541 recoveries and 71 fatalities. The latest cases, including 18 imported and 3,618 local infections, were found in 50 provinces and cities, the health ministry said, adding that 1,649 patients were detected in the community. Ho Chi Minh City reported 1,255 of the domestically-infected cases, Binh Duong Province 483, Dong Nai Province 390, Tay Ninh Province 185, An Giang Province 174, Soc Trang Province 109, Bac Lieu Province 102, Binh Thuan Province 78, Khanh Hoa Province 40, Can Tho City 23, Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province 18, and Hanoi nine. Vietnam had documented 3,635 locally-acquired infections on Wednesday. The country has recorded 872,811 community transmissions in 62 out of its 63 provinces and cities since the fourth virus wave emerged on April 27. Ho Chi Minh City leads the table with 422,201 patients, followed by Binh Duong Province with 227,328, Dong Nai Province with …

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At a bus station (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Transport has recently issued a document asking People’s Committees of cities and provinces to coordinate in instructing the implementation of temporary guidelines on transport activities so as to ensure safe and flexible adaptation to and effective control of COVID-19 pandemic. The Government has issued Resolution No.128/NQ-CP dated October 11 on temporary regulations on safe and flexible adaptation to and effective control of COVID-19. To implement the resolution, the Health Ministry has promulgated temporary medical guidance and the Transport Ministry has also released temporary guidelines on transport activities in the five areas of land, inland waterway, maritime, railway and aviation. Therefore, to ensure smooth and concerted transport activities, People’s Committees of cities and provinces were asked to direct local agencies and units to follow the ministry’s guidelines, and instruct departments …

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300 Vietnamese nationals repatriated from France flew back to Việt Nam at Vân Đồn International Airport in Quảng Ninh Province under a pilot vaccine passport programme in late September. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — Vaccine passports from 72 countries have been accepted by Vietnamese authorities to allow people to enter from abroad, and Việt Nam is currently in discussions with 80 countries and territories for mutual recognition for each other's COVID-19 vaccine certification. Lê Thị Thu Hằng, spokesperson for the Vietnamese foreign ministry, disclosed the information on Thursday during the regular press briefing held virtually from Hà Nội. The 72 countries and territories in question are those whose representatives in Việt Nam have officially presented the COVID-19 vaccination and/or recovery documentation to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and temporary recognition has been granted, under the new guidelines of safe, flexible, effective adaptation to COVID-19 pandemic …

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Illustrative image (Photo: AFP) Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam has temporarily recognised vaccination certificates and vaccine passports by 72 countries and territories in line with the Government’s Resolution No.128/NQ-CP on safe and flexible adaptation to and effective control of COVID-19 pandemic, said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang . During the ministry’s regular press conference that was held virtually on October 21, Hang said holders of these documents will have their concentrated quarantine period reduced to seven days in accordance with the Vietnamese Health Ministry’s guidelines on shortening quarantine time for fully vaccinated or recovered passengers. She added that the Foreign Ministry also discussed with nearly 80 partners about mutual recognition of vaccination certificates or vaccine passports. To date, Vietnam’s vaccination certificate has been recognised by several nations. According to the Prime Minister’s directions on creating favourable …

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At a vaccination site in Viet Tri city (Photo" VNA) Hanoi, (VNA) – Vietnam recorded 3,034 cases of COVID-19 on October 19, a drop of 132 cases compared to the previous day, according to the Ministry of Health. Among these new cases, 7 were imported. HCM City still recorded the highest number of infections with 907, followed by neighbouring Binh Duong province with 500 and Dong Nai province with 371. The national tally now stands at 870,255. According to the Ministry of Health’s report, 3,522 patients nationwide are in serious conditions, with 509 requiring invasive ventilation and 21 on life support (ECMO). On the day, the country saw 75 deaths from the disease. The death toll now hits 21,344. A further 1,866 patients were given the all-clear, taking the total number of recoveries to 794,846. . By October 18, the country had injected over 64.99 million doses of vaccines to date, with more than 18.49 million people now fully inoculated./. VNA …

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NA deputies discuss social affairs and two draft bills in groups on Thursday. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — As COVID-19 vaccines are still new, Việt Nam should exchange experience and learn from other countries when giving doses to those aged 12 to 17 this year and children below three years old next year, said Minister of Health Nguyễn Thanh Long at a group discussion of the 15th National Assembly (NA) on Thursday. The deputies gathered in groups on Thursday morning to discuss the implementation and outcomes of the 2021 socio-economic development plan, the draft development plan for next year, the report on COVID-19 prevention and control and the implementation of Resolution No 30/2021/QH15 issued at the NA’s first session in July. Minister of health Long said: “We have to accept the fact that the coronavirus is mutating and its pathogen cannot be completely eliminated. If we want to switch to safe adaptation with the pandemic, there is no other way but to ensure vaccine …

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The fund will be used to buy vaccines for the bloc's members. Vietnam plans to contribute US$5 million medical supplies to ASEAN Covid-19 Response Fund, Vietnamese Spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang said during a press briefing held in Hanoi on October 21. Vietnamese Spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang. Photo:MoFA Hang said Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh is expected to announce this contribution at the 38th, 39th ASEAN Summit, which will be virtually held on Oct 26-28. "The covid-19 response will be high on the agenda of the summit,” Hang said. She also informed that ASEAN countries will spend US$10.5 million from its Covid-19 Response Fund to buy vaccines for its members, with the first batch of vaccines to be delivered in the fourth quarter of this year or the first quarter of 2022. "The bloc will continue to mobilize contribution for the fund," she added. At the summit, leaders are expected to adopt the ASEAN framework agreement on …

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The committee said in a report that apart from VND18.1 trillion ($795 million) from the state budget, the Covid-19 vaccine fund has raised VND8.693 trillion, which means Vietnam now has around VND26.8 trillion, sufficient for purchasing vaccines needed to inoculate 75 million of its 96 million population. The vaccine fund was set up in May to raise contributions from various sources, including private companies and citizens, to ease the state budget’s burden. By the end of September, Vietnam had spent VND15.534 trillion buying vaccines – VND7.96 trillion from the vaccine fund and the rest from the state budget, the committee said. The nation now has VND11.27 trillion left – VND10.53 trillion from the state budget and VND733 billion from the vaccine fund – that can be used to purchase more vaccine doses. Vietnam aims to procure 150 million doses of vaccines at an estimated cost of VND25.2 trillion to cover 70 percent of its population this year, the Health Ministry had announced …

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Tourism business establishments in localities with COVID-19 risk at level 1 and level 2 can resume tourism activities at 100% capacity. Illustrative image. On October 20, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism issued provisional guidance on the implementation of the Government’s Resolution No.128/NQ-CP on provisional regulations for safe and flexible adaptation to as well as effective control of COVID-19 in cultural, sports and tourism activities. Under Resolution No.128, the four levels of pandemic risk are as follows: Level 1: low-risk (new normal) – labelled green; Level 2: medium-risk – labelled yellow; Level 3: high-risk – labelled orange; and Level 4: very high-risk – labelled red. Based on the instructions from the Ministry of Health, cities and provinces are responsible for raising or lowering their COVID-19 risk levels. If they raise the pandemic assessment risk level, local authorities must inform citizens and businesses at least 48 hours in advance. …

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As many as 19 foreign direct investment (FDI) enterprises with nearly 70,000 workers in Tien Giang Province have written to the prime minister seeking help to cope with the province’s unbearable Covid-19 restrictions. Tien Giang still requires enterprises to comply with the stay-at-work and one-route-two-destination mandates. The stay-at-work mandate forces workers to stay at the factories after work while the one-route-two-destination mandate requires employers to make accommodation arrangements outside factory for their workers and arrange buses for their workers to shuttle between place of accommodation and factory on a designated route. According to these enterprises, more than 80% of their employees have already received one Covid-19 vaccine shot but they are still disallowed to return to work, the local media reported. The province will allow enterprises to resume operations only if all their workers and their family members get fully vaccinated. On October …

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