A number of female healthcare workers are unable to forget some of the sensational stories from their time volunteering in the battle against COVID-19 in Ho Chi Minh City, the epicentre of the nation’s recent pandemic outbreak.
Ho Chi Minh City, the largest coronavirus hotspot in Vietnam, has yet to inoculate its children aged 12 to 17 against the SARS-CoV-2 virus, said Pham Duc Hai, deputy head of the HCM City Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control at a press briefing on October 18.
The authorities of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest coronavirus hotspot in Vietnam, are planning to apply “green cards” in order to ease social distancing restrictions for people who have received one or two doses of COVID-19 vaccines.
The Director of Binh Duong Provincial Health Department on August 23 signed a decision to appoint Huynh Minh Chin, Director of the Health Center of Bau Bang district, to the post of Director of the Health Center of Tan Uyen town.
Binh Duong, an industrial complex hub in the south and the second largest COVID-19 hotspot in Vietnam, is moving to strengthen prevention and control efforts due to a rise in new cases in the locality.
Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Son, Deputy Minister of Public Security, on July 4 had a videoconference with the Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Combat of the Ministry of Public Security and provincial-level police departments of Ho Chi Minh City, Binh Duong and Dong Nai.
As many as 91 further domestic COVID-19 infections, and one imported case were confirmed by the Ministry of Health over the past 12 hours to 6:00 am on June 16.
The goal of completely eradicating the COVID-19 pandemic by June 21 in Bac Giang province, the nation’s largest epicenter in the current COVID-19 wave, has been set based on practical analysis and the locality’s great political determination.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) confirmed an additional 92 locally transmitted coronavirus cases in five Vietnamese localities, with Bac Giang, the country’s largest coronavirus hotspot, logging 68 cases alone.
The northern province of Bac Giang started a mass vaccination drive in pandemic-hit communes of Viet Yen district from June 1. The program is expected to take 7 – 10 days.
Employees in the northern province of Bac Ninh, the nation’s second largest novel coronavirus (COVID-19) hotspot, will live and work at their factories, with this policy starting from June 2.
As many as 61 domestic cases were detected to be positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus in three Vietnamese localities, including 43 in Bac Giang, 15 in Hanoi and 3 in Lang Son, the Ministry of Health reported on May 31 morning.
The northern province of Bac Giang, Vietnam’s largest COVID-19 hotspot, logged 55 out of 80 more cases detected in four localities nationwide as announced by the Ministry of Health (MoH) on May 26 morning.
The administration of northern Bac Giang province has imposed social distancing on its capital, Bac Giang city, and established medical quarantine zones in several other localities as the fresh coronavirus outbreak has yet to show signs of abating.
Vietnamese army’s chemical division on May 6 disinfected the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases, based in Kim Chung commune, Dong Anh district, Hanoi, which has been a COVID-19 hotspot in the latest outbreak.
A total of 15 community cases of COVID-19 were recorded over the past 12 hours as of 6 p.m. on February 19, all of which were detected in the northern province of Hai Duong, raising the national tally to 2,362, including 770 locally-transmitted cases since January 27, according to the Ministry of Health.
