The cities and provinces that have controlled Covid outbreaks have reopened some services and received their first travelers.

With the government’s determination to gradually loosen social distancing policies, businesses are eager to build strategies to resume operations as soon and as fully as possible.

The Ministry of Health has assigned local departments of health to advise people’s committees on the length of time between taking the two required AstraZeneca vaccine doses.

Vietnam and Cuba released a 12-point joint statement on the occasion of Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s official friendship visit to Cuba from September 18-20.

The details of about two million shots of COVID-19 vaccines administered have not yet been logged on the national COVID-19 vaccination portal, as many people have complained of missing or erroneous vaccine records.

“Localities should not always count plants and livestock in their reports. We need to change the way of thinking to improve the situation,” said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan.

DigiEx Group Vietnam announces that it has entered into an agreement with Seoul-based Megazone Cloud Corporation to provide advanced Cloud Managed Service, Cloud Migration and bring best practice Korean technology to businesses in Vietnam.
 

The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have slowed down the operations of businesses in industrial parks (IP), disrupting supply chains and labour, according to a recent report by the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI).

Up to 25 localities out of 63 provinces and cities reopened schools for physical studying as the COVID-19 outbreaks have been put under control.

The Drug Administration of Vietnam under the Ministry of Health has given the green light to Vimedimex Medi-Pharma JSC to import 30 million doses of the Hayat-Vax vaccine, produced in China and packaged in the UAE.

Vocational colleges are struggling to meet admission quotas at a time of the year when students will have already started school.

HCM City is struggling providing COVID-19 tests to local shippers as the number of shippers registered with the city’s Department of Industry and Trade has soared over the last few days.

Hanoi needs to find solutions to prevent the coronavirus from spreading and causing overloading of the healthcare system.

Vietnam’s coffee exports to S Korea forecast to increase

The Ministry of Planning and Investment yesterday said the Government should allow enterprises to actively deploy production and business plans suitable with their own circumstance and reconsider the "3-on-site" model due to high operating costs.

HCM City to implement third relief package worth 7.3 trillion VND

A group of three big Australian warships, amphibious assault ship HMAS Canberra, missile frigate HMAS Anzac and tanker HMAS Sirius, docked at Cam Ranh Bay in Khanh Hoa province for a series of bilateral cooperation activities from September 20-23.

PM Pham Minh Chinh has requested Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long to study two treatment methods for COVID-19 patients proposed by Professor Nguyen Thanh Liem, former Director of the National Peadiatrics Hospital.

Hanoi’s authorities have allowed the reopening of some services in the city from 6am on September 21.

Actions are needed now to save businesses, or it will be too late, enterprise associations say.

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the total remuneration for chairmen of many local banks in the first half of 2021 was over VND200 million (over $9,000) per month, higher than the same period of last year.

According to a survey by the Covid-19 Resuscitation Hospital in HCM City, up to 67% of patients said they wanted to have psychological counseling.

Upon the State Bank of Vietnam’s approval, Pham Quang Dung has been appointed Chairman of the Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank) for the 2018-2023 term.

The required benchmarks for admission to universities this year have been described as "abnormally high" by some.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh asked the COVAX Facility to quickly allocate COVID-19 vaccines to Vietnam during a teleconference with its Office Managing Director Aurélia Nguyen on September 20.