Farm produce exports grow strongly despite COVID-19

The Ministry of Health has decided to set up 12 Covid-19 national intensive care centers in three regions with the total capacity of 7,900 ICU beds amid the complicated developments of the pandemic in Vietnam.

Internet service providers are bearing pressure as people’s daily activities now rely more on the internet during social distancing.

The HCMC Human Resources Coordination Taskforce has proposed demobilizing soldiers and using security guard companies to participate in the Covid-19 fight.

Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long said that all the vaccines used in Vietnam have been licensed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and are being used in other countries.

The Party Central Committee’s Inspection Commission issued an announcement on its fifth meeting in Hanoi on August 4.

The 54th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM-54), which took place recently via videoconference, issued a joint communiqué highlighting the East Sea (South China Sea) situation.

The Health Ministry reported 3,352 new COVID-19 cases, including one imported case, from 6am to 6:30pm on August 4.

There are a number of unified, nationwide IT platforms that will best serve the prevention of the Covid-19 epidemic in Vietnam.

In their first time participating in the International Economic Olympiad, Vietnamese students won two bronze medals.

According to Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control (HCDC), the epidemic situation has seen positive changes, so people need to adhere to the 5K rule and social distancing measures to quickly control the number of new infections.

Vietnam has recorded 1,881 Covid-19-related deaths, with 3.1% of the cases people over 70 years old.

Ho Chi Minh City has received the largest number of Covid-19 vaccine doses in the country, with a total so far of nearly 4.1 million doses.

Two young technicians in HCM City have put the locations of 3,000 shops along with their phone numbers, and opening and closing times on an online map so that shoppers can find nearby stores more easily.

Vietnam's airline industry is facing its worst crisis yet amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an online conference on financial solutions to keep the industry afloat heard on Monday. 

Vietnam is stepping up its efforts to secure vaccine technology transfer to get access to inoculations, paving a way to enter the global vaccine supply chain.

The Ministry of Health in collaboration with the World Health Organisation organized a webinar on August 4 to consult experts on the evaluation of clinical research data and approval of vaccines against COVID-19 in emergency situations.

Vietnamese athletes competing at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games will fly back home on August 4, wrapping up their journey at the global sporting event.

Many seafood processing companies in the South are facing difficulties keeping their workers on-site amid the Covid-19 outbreak as required by the authorities, according to Truong Dinh Hoe, VASEP general secretary.

The proportion of textile and garment factories that have closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic has reached 30-35 per cent according to the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (Vitas).