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Ho Chi Minh City needs an addition of more than 7,000 health workers to deal with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, according to chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong. Chairman Phong has sent a petition to the prime minister to ask for more support in terms of health personnel, as the city continues to struggle with the worst-ever outbreak. In the document, the official stated that the Ministry of Health had sent 1,936 doctors and nurses from multiple localities to Ho Chi Minh City to assist in COVID-19 treatment efforts. About 1,600 medical lecturers and students were also mobilized to take part in contact tracing and test sample collection in the metropolis. To continue supporting the health sector in Ho Chi Minh City, the municipal People’s Committee asked for the provision of an additional 7,064 health workers. They include 927 doctors and 4,037 nurses for COVID-19 treatment, 100 laboratory and X-ray technicians, and 2,000 medical professionals for the collection of test samples. …

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Ho Chi Minh City has seen its blood reserves running dry as donation drives have been canceled due to multiple COVID-19 social distancing periods, with the latest being extended until August 1. These days, the Ho Chi Minh City Blood Transfusion Hematology Hospital, which manages the city’s blood bank, receives only 30 to 50 blood bags, merely one-tenth of the amount of blood needed for some 150 hospitals in the city, including those treating COVID-19 patients, said Dr. Phu Chi Dung, director of the hospital, on Friday. With an aim to curb the COVID-19 spread, the municipal administration has over the past few months applied many social distancing periods, during which people are required to go out only in necessary cases, among other epidemic prevention measures, the director said. Given such restrictions, many blood donation activities have been canceled or postponed, Dr. Dung explained. The blood reserves have therefore decreased over time and in the next seven days, they …

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HCM City has started carrying out a large-scale disinfection of the whole city in an effort to prevent the spreading of Coronavirus. On the morning of July 23, dozens of specialised trucks operated by military officers started moving along the local streets. They started from Thu Duc City and Binh Chanh District. Major General Le Ngoc Hai from Ho Chi Minh City Command said that 20 trucks would be sent to disinfect the whole city. It is expected that 21 wards would be sterilised a day. All the officers taking part in the work were carefully prepared with protective masks and clothing. Some six tonnes of Cloramin B will be used for the disinfection. Many areas in Thu Duc City, especially those under lockdown or quarantine following the discovery of Covid-19 patients were carefully sterilised. Field hospitals, densely residential areas or areas under lockdown will be prioritised. The …

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The Vietnam National Pagoda in district 10 (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – The Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) of Ho Chi Minh City said on July 22 that it had sent an official dispatch to authorized agencies, proposing the use of its religious establishments as temporary COVID-19 treatment hospitals and quarantine facilities for Buddhist monks and nuns. Amidst the complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic in HCM City, Most Venerable Thich Tri Quang , Deputy Patriarch of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha and Chairman of the Executive Council of the HCM City Buddhist Sangha, sent the official dispatch to the city’s leaders and the Department of Health, asking for permission to use the Vietnam National Pagoda in district 10 and Pho Quang Pagoda in Tan Binh district as temporary COVID-19 treatment hospitals for Buddhist monks and nuns. If approved by the city’s leaders and the Department of Health and provided with medical equipment and workers, the HCM City Buddhist Sangha …

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The municipal Department of Health said the vaccination will be carried out at 20 hospitals, alongside 615 commune- and ward-based vaccination sites. The fifth phase is scheduled to complete in two weeks. During this phase, priority will be given to people with underlying health conditions, those aged above 65, preferential social policy and welfare beneficiaries, the poor, the vulnerable, medical and other frontline workers. As of July 21 morning, HCM City has reported 39,526 coronavirus cases since the fourth wave hit Vietnam in late April, making it the country’s largest hotspot. More than 3,600 COVID-19 patients have been discharged from hospitals as of July 20, according to the city’s Department of Health./. VNA …

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Illustrative photo (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - A total of 1,228,500 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on July 23 morning. This is the fifth and also the biggest shipment of the deal to purchase 30 million doses signed between AstraZeneca Vietnam and the Vietnam Vaccine Joint Stock Company (VNVC) with support from the Ministry of Health. To date, over 3.1 million doses of the contract have delivered to Vietnam. The amount accounted for approximately 37 percent of the  AstraZeneca vaccine volume Vietnam has received, with the remainder coming from the COVAX Facility or donated by other countries. Nitin Kapoor, President for Asia Area Frontier Markets at AstraZeneca who is also Chairman and General Director of AstraZeneca Vietnam, said the amount of the vaccine brought to Vietnam in July 2021 shows AstraZeneca's efforts to accelerate its supply to support Vietnam's fight against the pandemic. In total, nearly 8.6 million doses of …

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The Ministry of Health confirmed almost 7,300 domestic COVID-19 cases along with more than 2,000 recoveries in Vietnam on Friday. Thirty-seven provinces and cities recorded 7,295 local infections while another 12 were imported from abroad, the health ministry said. A total of 1,274 cases were detected in the community whereas the remainder were found in centralized quarantine facilities or isolated areas. Ho Chi Minh City logged 4,913 of the latest domestic infections, Binh Duong Province 608, Long An Province 602, Dong Nai Province 217, and Tay Ninh Province 212. Today’s locally-acquired infection jump is the sharpest so far, after a record was set at 6,164 patients on Thursday. Since the fourth COVID-19 wave began in Vietnam on April 27, Vietnam has registered 77,967 domestic cases in 62 out of 63 provinces and cities. Ho Chi Minh City is taking the lead with 50,474 patients, followed by Binh Duong Province with 5,976, Bac Giang Province with 5,735, Long An Province with …

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Vietnam confirmed 7,307 new Covid-19 infections on Friday including 4,913 cases in the virus hotspot of Ho Chi Minh City, raising the total number of patients in the country to 81,678, the Ministry of Health has reported. This is the highest daily counts recorded in the country so far. According to the ministry's report, 7,295 of the newly-confirmed patients are locally-transmitted cases 6,021 of whom were detected in quarantine sites or areas under lockdown in some localities including 4,913 in Ho Chi Minh City, 608 in Binh Duong, 602 in Long An, 217 in Dong Nai, 212 in Tay Ninh, 129 in Dong Thap, 95 in Tien Giang, 70 in Hanoi, 58 in Ba Ria-Vung Tau, 51 in Khanh Hoa, 47 in Danang, 47 in Binh Thuan, 37 in Ninh Thuan, 34 in Can Tho, 30 in Phu Yen, 26 in Quang Ngai, 20 in Ben Tre, 15 in Tra Vinh, 13 in Kien Giang, 12 in Vinh Long, 11 in Nghe An, eight in Dak Nong, six in Binh Dinh, four in Dak Lak, four in Binh Phuoc, four in Hau Giang, four in Bac Ninh, three in Vinh Phuc, …

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A group of 29 individuals recently traveled 1,400km on motorbikes from southern Binh Duong Province to north-central Nghe An Province to escape the worsening situation of COVID-19 in southern Vietnam. As air transport and passenger bus services between Nghe An and southern localities have been suspended, motorbikes have become the option available to individuals stranded in the southern provinces that wish to return home in the north. Between Tuesday and Thursday, 29 returnees arrived on motorbikes in Ky Son District, Nghe An from Binh Duong, currently the second hardest-hit locality in the southern region with over 5,400 local infections. They had prepared food and water in advance and not stopped at any street-side eateries or motels for meals or rest. Local medical authorities have collected samples from the returnees for COVID-19 testing and taken them to centralized quarantine facilities as per regulations, according to Ky Son’s chairman Nguyen Huu Minh. Not only Ky Son …

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Vietnam last held the SEA Games in 2003, but will have to wait to do so a second time. Photo: Le Toan Earlier this month, the SEA Games organising committee and National Olympic Councils finally decided to halt preparations for the event, which was due to take place in Hanoi and surrounding areas from November 21 to December 2. The accompanying ASEAN Para Games were to be hosted on December 17-23. Ten of the 11 member countries voted to postpone the event until next year during the federation’s teleconference meeting this week. The Vietnamese delegation abstained, explaining it would have to talk to government officials before deciding on a rescheduled date for the games. A number of members have proposed new dates from the end of April to early May 2022. Philippine Olympic Committee president Abraham Tolentino announced after the latest meeting on July 8 that the SEA Games Federation had unanimously decided on the postponement of the biennial event. “We’re united in the …

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