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The Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday the second-largest increase in daily infections in Vietnam, most in an epicenter in the northern part, while almost 100 of them were recorded in Ho Chi Minh City.

The country detected 414 community cases, including 398 in quarantined areas, the ministry said in a report the same day.

This is second-biggest daily case jump after the health ministry saw the steepest spike of 444 cases on May 25.

The nation recorded the third-strongest rise of 398 transmissions on Tuesday.

Bac Giang Province, which is the largest epicenter located in the north, reported 279 of the latest patients, while its neighbor Bac Ninh Province logged 27 cases.

Ho Chi Minh City registered 99 cases, its largest daily count this year, Ha Tinh Province four, Nghe An Province three, Ha Nam Province one, and Bac Kan one.

Vietnam has detected 8,411 locally-transmitted infections in 40 out of its 63 provinces and cities since the ongoing fourth virus wave erupted on April 27.

Bac Giang is leading the caseload with 4,680 patients, followed by Bac Ninh with 1,442, Ho Chi Minh City with 1,060, and Hanoi with 464.

Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City on Monday decided to extend the enhanced social distancing measures having put in place since May 31 by two weeks to stall escalating community spread, as over 80 patients have been confirmed on a daily basis since last weekend.

The Southeast Asian nation has recorded an accumulation of 11,635 infections as of Wednesday evening, including 9,980 domestic and 1,655 imported cases, according to the health ministry’s statistics.

The number of recovered patients has reached 4,590, including 47 reported on Wednesday, while 61 have died, most with severe pre-existing conditions.

Nearly five million people have been tested in this fourth wave, the worst so far.

Vietnam confirmed 106 community cases in the first wave from January 23 to April 16, 2020, 554 in the second from July 25 to December 1, 2020, and 910 in the third from January 28 to March 25, 2021.

The country administered 95,421 AstraZeneca vaccine shots to medical staff and other frontline workers on Tuesday, taking the total to 1,648,072 jabs since inoculation was rolled out on March 8.

A total of 59,608 have been given two injections of the vaccine.

The government has set a target of securing 150 jabs, as it expects to immunize at least two-thirds of a population of almost 98 million people this year.

It has received about 2.9 million AstraZeneca shots so far.

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Notice says the HCM City’s Hospital for Tropical Diseases is stopping people from visiting patients after confirmed COVID-19 cases were reported there. — VNA/VNS Photo Thu Hương

HÀ NỘI — A further 423 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Việt Nam on Wednesday, comprising 414 domestic and nine imported ones, according to the Ministry of Health.

Of the locally transmitted infections, Bắc Giang logged 279 cases, HCM City 99, Bắc Ninh 27, Hà Tĩnh four, Nghệ An three, Hà Nam one and Bắc Kạn one.

With 414 domestic cases, Wednesday saw the second highest daily increase. May 25 with 444 cases remains the day with the highest number of new locally-transmitted cases since April 27, marking the fourth wave of COVID-19 in Việt Nam.

The number of confirmed cases in HCM City in the fourth wave on Wednesday topped 1,000, after the city recorded 99 cases today, the highest number since the pandemic began earlier last year

Deputy Minister of Health Nguyễn Trường Sơn, who is leading the ministry’s special task force to support HCM City in COVID-19 prevention and control on Wednesday dismissed information that the rapid spread of COVID-19 in the city is due to a new variant of coronavirus.

Sơn said that the ministry verified with HCM City’s Pasteur Institute and could confirm that cases in the city were infected with the Indian B.1617.2 variant, also known as the Delta variant, according to the results of genetic sequencing for samples taken from COVID-19 patients in the city.

The health ministry today also worked with Việt Nam Vaccine Company to take the 288,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine the manufacturer delivered on May 25, 2021, to be distributed to outbreak hotspots in the country.

Of the 45 locally-transmitted cases reported in HCM City on Wednesday evening, 12 cases have not had sources of infection identified while the other five cases related to the church cluster and two related to HCM City Hospital for Tropical Diseases and 26 cases are F1 of earlier confirmed cases.

Of the locally transmitted cases on Wednesday, 398 cases were detected in quarantine sites or sealed-off areas.

The national tally reached 11,635, including 9,980 local cases and 1,655 imported cases. The number of COVID-19 cases since April 27, when the latest outbreak began, amounted to 8,410.

There were 4,590 recoveries as 47 COVID-19 patients were given the all-clear on Wednesday while the death toll remained at 61.

Twenty-four provinces have gone through 14 consecutive days without new cases. — VNS

Bac Giang Province led with 90 cases, followed by Ho Chi Minh City (45), Bac Ninh Province (10), Nghe An Province (2), Ha Nam Province and Bac Kan Province one each.

Most of the new cases have been isolated prior or have had contact with previously confirmed patients, except for 12 cases in HCMC on whom authorities are doing contact tracing.

HCMC recorded a total of 99 local cases Wednesday, the highest daily figure since the beginning of last year.

The city on Wednesday put six factories where 3,000 workers are employed under lockdown after detecting two cases there Tuesday evening.

These factories are located in the districts of Binh Tan, Binh Chanh and Cu Chi.

Total number of local cases in Vietnam since April 27 is now at 8,411 in 40 localities. 24 of them have not recorded new cases in 14 days.

Forty seven patients were discharged Wednesday, bringing the total number of recoveries to 4,590.

A passenger opened the exit slide and refused to pay fines

A passenger from Quang Ninh Province was banned from flying for nine months from June 20 to March 19, 2022. He smoked in the plane’s toilet during a flight on March 16 and didn’t comply with the instructions to stop.

A passenger born in 1993 from Ha Giang Province was also banned from flying for nine months after he opened the exit slide on the plane and refused to pay fines.

Four other passengers from Hanoi, Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh and Phu Quoc used fake papers to board planes. All four passengers refused to pay fines and will be banned from flying for 12 months from June 20 to June 19, 2022.

The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam asked the airports and airlines to update data to recognise the banned passengers. Official documents will be sent to the police, customs departments and related firms.

The Northern Airport Authority, Southern Airport Authority and Middle Airport Authority will be responsible for notifying the passengers.

Back in 2014, the heat of “Flappy Bird” reached the highest level. Almost anyone with a smartphone played this game. The heat was real!

“Flappy Bird” appeared everywhere, from real-life to the Internet,  from home, the streets to the office. Kids and even adults played this game.

Also, a lot of merchandise were created base on this game, so we can imagine the attraction of a Vietnamese game.

Since then, “Flappy Bird” has become a role model so the programmers in Vietnam know how the reach worldwide.

Thanks to “Flappy Bird”, many foreign investors realized the potential of the Vietnamese programmers.

So today, Vietnam has a making-game system that is more professional with a short term goal is to produce another “Flappy Bird”.

Besides, many marketing and advertising campaigns were created to help users worldwide to reach Vietnamese digital products.

We can say that “Flappy Bird” is not just a mobile game, but it contains a Vietnamese dream: To compete worldwide!