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HCM City to kick off COVID-19 vaccination campaign on June 19 Ho Chi Minh City is set to begin its COVID-19 vaccination campaign on June 19, with priority groups to get injected with about 800,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses donated by the Japanese Government. Checking the vaccine preservation at a cold storage warehouse in the Cat Lai Industrial Park on June 17, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son said among the 966,300 vaccine doses donated by the Japanese Government to Vietnam, 836,000 doses were allocated to HCM City. He noted according to regulations, a batch of vaccine delivered to Vietnam will undergo examination, which will take 48 hours, at the Hanoi-based National Institute for Control of Vaccines and Biologicals, and only when the vaccine gets the quality certificate can it be put into use. The largest-ever vaccination campaign in HCM City is scheduled to last for about five to seven days, targeting the priority groups identified in the … [Read more...] about VIETNAM NEWS HEADLINES JUNE 18

175 COVID-19 patients given all-clear on June 20 The Ministry of Health reported that 94 new COVID-19 cases had been detected in the six hours from 12pm to 6pm June 20, all local infections. Ho Chi Minh City reported the most cases with 57, while 23 cases were detected in Bac Giang, 9 in Da Nang, three in Bac Ninh, and two in Nghe An. With the new cases, the total number recorded on June 20 amounted to 311, including 11 imported. The national tally rose to 13,211 as of 6pm June 20, including 11,513 domestic cases. 175 patients were given the all-clear from the virus on the day while the death toll related to the disease rose to 66. Among active patients undergoing treatment, 381 have tested negative to coronavirus once, 135 twice and 137 thrice. Twenty one provinces and cities have gone free of new cases for at least 14 days./. Vietnam receives 500,000 doses of Vero-Cell vaccine from China A flight transporting 500,000 doses of Vero-Cell vaccine … [Read more...] about VIETNAM NEWS HEADLINES JUNE 20

In an interview granted to Vietnam News Agency after presenting his credentials to Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Ambassador Luis Pablo María Beltramino spoke highly of the extensive cooperative relations between the two countries. In terms of trade cooperation, he affirmed that Argentina is willing to diversify its exports to Vietnam to meet the country’s demand. Expressing his delight at the development of comprehensive cooperation in the past through many signed agreements, the ambassador also spoke of areas of potential the two countries can develop in the future. In the international community, Argentina and Vietnam have supported each other for many years and share a common vision on different issues and global challenges such as climate change, human aid leadership, and the COVID-19 pandemic, the ambassador said, expressing his hope that the two countries will strengthen cooperation to overcome the challenges for the benefit of the two peoples./. VNA … [Read more...] about Argentina wishes to establish strategic partnership with Vietnam: Ambassador

The Vietnamese community in Laos are working with Lao authorities and people to overcome the current COVID-19 outbreak by raising funds and donating cash, necessities and medical supplies to the host country. A Vietnamese student in Laos has his sample taken in Vientiane. Lao medical staff in co-operation with the Vietnamese Association in Vientiane conducted COVID-19 testing on Vietnamese living and working in some areas. After learning about a number of Vietnamese in Laos getting infected with COVID-19, the Vietnamese Association in Vientiane has taken a range of measures to support the Vietnamese community in the country. The association has called on the Vietnamese community to stay calm amid the outbreak in Laos, while providing COVID-19 patients or those in quarantine with food and necessities. It has also co-ordinated with the Lao health ministry to open COVID-19 testing sites in the areas in Vientiane, where many Vietnamese are living. Vice Chairman of the … [Read more...] about Vietnam provides COVID-19 assistance to Laos

A reporter of the Vietnam News Agency interviews a foreigner in Đà Nẵng about COVID-19 testing. — VNA/VNS Photo Lê Lâm HÀ NỘI — Working as a female reporter is hard at the best of times, but reporting from COVID-19 outbreak zones and risking infection is even tougher. Hoàng Lan, a female reporter of Pháp Luật Thành Phố Hồ Chí Minh (HCM City’s Legal Affairs) newspaper, will never forget waking up at 4am on national election day (May 23) to cover the election in quarantine areas at Củ Chi Field Hospital in HCM City. “I left home at 4.30 and arrived at the hospital at 6am. The ballot area was set up in the quarantine areas and treatment areas. Before the election started, everyone had their samples tested for COVID-19. Despite casting the ballots at the hospital, I saw that the constituents were very happy,” she said. “I felt happy too because I could report on the atmosphere and patients’ feelings at a special voting venue,” she told the Vietnam News Agency. Since … [Read more...] about Female correspondents head to COVID-19 hotspots to cover latest news