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The second cohort of U.S. Peace Corps volunteers arrived in Hanoi on October 24.
The focus of the Peace Corps programme in Vietnam is English education, as outlined in an Implementing Agreement signed in 2020 between the US and Vietnamese governments.
Whenever he is affected by negative emotions from patients, Ha Gia Bao often makes himself coffee to relieve the stress.
Thousands of people of different generations have volunteered to join the country’s efforts in the fight against COVID-19, and their acts of kindness have contributed to helping many overcome the most difficult times in their lives.
After 10 days and nights of preparation, at 11 am on August 1, 2021, Dr Le Tuan Thanh received a message that “the system is through” and burst into tears. “I knew we could do something for HCM City residents,” he said.
They are the doctors of the Ministry of Health’s last unit under the assistance program which is still operating in HCM City. They continue to make every effort each day to save Covid-19 patients’ lives.
Over the past two months, Thong has taken hundreds of patients in his ambulance to medical facilities in HCM City and Quang Binh Province.
The HCMC government is considering mobilizing recovered Covid-19 patients as volunteers in the fight against the pandemic in the city.
Hundreds of doctors have joined the Facebook group ‘Giup nhau mua dich’ (helping each other) to assist people during the Covid-19 pandemic.
“I usually have to stay up late at night to take samples for testing, often with an empty stomach,” the medical school student said.
Sleeping three or four hours a day, being ready to work regardless of the time, or spending hours sweltering inside a protective suit.
The kindness of "night-road knights" has made a massive contribution to reducing traffic accidents, and has won acclaim from the people and the government of Binh Tan District, HCM City.
After finishing his daily job as a construction worker, at about 8pm most days Nguyen Thanh Hien gets on his motorbike and starts helping others.
As researchers race to develop vaccines to combat the spread of COVID-19, many people from all walks of life want to get involved in the fight by volunteering to join clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines.
A total of 74 volunteers were given the Vietnamese COVID-19 vaccine, Nano Covax, in phase II of human trials on Friday.
At 9 am, an ambulance left Field Hospital No 1 in Hai Duong province, carrying a group of students to a site in Chi Linh City where they needed to take samples for tests for SARS-nCov-2.
“If everyone just sits and waits and no one dares to get a vaccine injection trial, the vaccine won't be successful,” said one of the first three volunteers in the Nanocovax vaccine trial.
During the peak days fighting the COVID-19 pandemic in Da Nang, besides ‘frontline soldiers’ like doctors, police and army forces, there are many outstanding examples of pandemic prevention and control bringing up the ‘rear’.
It has been a week since Tran Diem My, a student of Hanoi Medical University, began volunteering.
Thousands of people flocked to the annual bazaar hosted by the Hanoi International Women’s Club (HIWC) yesterday in a new urban area in western Hanoi – enjoying fun, sun and wind.