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COVID-19 strain found in Da Nang won’t impact Vietnamese vaccine study The latest mutation of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) found in Da Nang will not affect the gene pool selected by Vietnamese researchers for antigens and vaccines, according to experts.   … [Read more...] about Vietnam expects to launch domestic Covid-19 vaccine by October 2021

FDI relocation "wave" still unclear as Vietnam faces competition from India, Thailand, Indonesia Vietnam has a great opportunity to receive new FDI, but it has been warned of the ‘the other side of the coin’. … [Read more...] about Vietnam prepares to receive investors from Japan, the US, EU

This allows holders to remain in the country if they have no other visa options and are unable to depart due to COVID-19 travel restrictions. Applicants must demonstrate why they can’t meet the requirements for another visa, according to the Australian Department of Home Affairs. … [Read more...] about Young people involved in Vietnam’s fight against COVID-19

"They include Vietnamese workers who worked in neighbouring countries without contracts and Chinese citizens," the official said. "Due to continuous natural disasters and the virus outbreak in China, they entered Vietnam to seek jobs while some were on holiday or sought ways to move to Cambodia for gambling." According to a report from the ministry, as many as 504 Chinese people have been found to illegally enter Vietnam in 27 provinces and cities since the beginning of this year. Since June, local public security forces and border guards have uncovered 21 cases involving 177 illegal Chinese immigrants, and launched criminal proceedings against 19 Vietnamese and several Chinese in five cases. Xo also suggested issuing suitable policies for illegal Vietnamese immigrants, most of them illegal workers in China. … [Read more...] about Chinese people illegally enter Vietnam to seek ways to Cambodia

Da Nang (VNA) – Another person has died of end-stage chronic renal failure, sepsis, acute heart failure and COVID-19, marking the eighth COVID-19-related death in Vietnam so far and the second on August 4. The latest fatality is a 65-year-old man from Da Nang city’s Hoa Vang district who was treated for five months for end-stage renal failure, regular hemodialysis and septic shock at the Nephrology Department of Da Nang Hospital. He was discharged from the hospital on July 24. A test carried out three days later revealed he was positive for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and he was transferred to the Department of Tropical Medicine of the Da Nang Hospital. At that time, he had breathing difficulties and was placed on a ventilator. His condition worsened and on August 4 he lost his fight for life at 8.30am. Announcing the death, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son said there are still a number of patients in a critical condition and at high risk of losing their lives … [Read more...] about Vietnam reports another COVID-19-related death