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Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam has full capacity and enough kits to perform diagnostic tests for the virus SARS-CoV2 that causes COVID-19, said Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long in a meeting on February 24. The country now has 10,000 test kits provided by the World Health Organisation (WHO) with the accuracy similar to those in other countries, he told a meeting of the national steering committee for COVID-19 prevention and control in Hanoi. The test kit involves real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) so it is highly sensitive and effective, he said. WHO has transferred standard technique for detecting the novel coronavirus for three qualified medical facilities in Vietnam – the Pasteur Institute of Ho Chi Minh City, the Pasteur Institute of Nha Trang and the Central Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in Hanoi, according to the deputy minister. These facilities then have cooperated with WHO to transfer the technique and required equipment … [Read more...] about Vietnam has full capacity to perform COVID-19 diagnostic testing: official

According to Hanh, Vietnam’s airlines currently operate four flights weekly between the southeastern Korean city of Daegu, where more than half of South Korea’s COVID-19 cases have been reported, and Cam Ranh International Airport in the south-central Vietnamese province of Khanh Hoa. … [Read more...] about Vietnamese cities seek to quarantine arrivals from South Korea, Japan

“Sun and Moon” by Lim Eunjung - PHOTOS: COURTESY OF ORGANIZER HCMC - The Korean Cultural Center in Hanoi is showcasing 47 folk paintings by 46 artists from the Korean Folk Painting Association, the Vietnam News Agency reports. … [Read more...] about South Korean folk paintings displayed in Hanoi

The excavation site at Ben Dinh historical and cultural relic site in Tay Ninh Province - PHOTO: VNA HCMC - The Southern Institute of Social Sciences’ Center for Archaeological Studies has unearthed relics of an ancient temple dating back to over 1,000 years in the southern province of Tay Ninh. … [Read more...] about Relics of 1,000-year-old temple discovered in Tay Ninh

Hanoi (VNA) – Those who enter Vietnam from the Republic of Korea (RoK) have been officially required to fill out medical declaration forms amid the increase of confirmed new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the East Asian country, according to the Ministry of Health (MOH). The information was announced in a meeting of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control in Hanoi on February 24. In order to prevent the disease from entering Vietnam, the MoH has asked the People's Committees of provinces and cities nationwide to direct concerned agencies to apply medical declaration for all people from the RoK entering Vietnam at all border gates and airports. Medical quarantine measures must be applied if passengers show signs of cough, fever, shortness of breath, and respiratory disease, the ministry said. The international medical quarantine, preventive medicine, and disease control centres are responsible for printing and … [Read more...] about Passengers from RoK forced to fill out health declaration forms