Volunteers register to participate in NACOVAX trials. (Illustrative image. – File photo)

Remarkably, Vietnam has been a spotlight in the Covid-19 prevention work and among the first four countries launching coronavirus gene sequencing. 

Vietnam has been one of the first five nations successfully studying antigen-testing bio-products and has been listed among the countries starting human trials of Covid-19 vaccine. 

HIV/AIDS has been continuously controlled in Vietnam, witnessing the 12th successive year of reductions in the numbers of new HIV carriers, HIV carriers developing full-blown AIDS and AIDS-related deaths. 

Vietnam has been named as the top four countries with the best HIV/AIDS treatment quality. 

The average Vietnamese man is 168.1 cm tall and the average woman is 156.2 cm, up 3.7 cm and 2.6 cm from the figures obtained in 2009, respectively. 

The proportion of undernourished children under five years old was 19.6%, the lowest level as classified by the World Health Organization. 

The fertility rate for Vietnam in 2020 was 2.12 births per woman while the sex ratio at birth was 112.1 boys per 100 girls. 

The health sector is striving to raise the coverage of health insurance to 91%.  VGP

Thuy Dung 

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Amid the turbulence caused by the new strain of coronavirus, Vietnam has once again proven its ability to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Healthcare sector in 2021 to use less paper, share digitized medical records

Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long said from July 2021 the health sector will carry out medical examinations and treatment while reducing paper usage.