Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Duong Anh Duc directed the Department of Education and Training, the Department of Health, administrations in districts, and Thu Duc City to conduct a preliminary review of pilot in-person learning in two weeks for students in grades 9 and 12 for proposal of continued learning; from which the city will maintain the best learning environment for children.
Since the third Covid-19 epidemic broke out in Bac Giang, the Ministry of Health has given the green light on the use of traditional medicine in combination with Western medicine to treat patients with Covid-19. Traditional medicine and Western medicine used in combination to treat Covid-19 patients have shown positive results.
Ho Chi Minh City's Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control on October 1 said that the number of Covid-19 deaths in the city has dipped below 100 for the first time in over three months, with 96 deaths registered during the last 24 hours.
After months of social distancing, Ho Chi Minh City authorities decided to reopen commercial centers, supermarkets, mini supermarkets; convenience stores, grocery stores; wholesale markets, traditional markets; gasoline, oil, gas, chemicals whereas barbershops, hair salons reopen at 50 percent capacity.
Vietnam’s stock market suffered a steep decline on Monday as market sentiment was pressured by worries about the broader spread of the coronavirus across the country.
World Health Organisation (WHO) Representative in Vietnam Dr. Kidong Park has reaffirmed that WHO stands ready to accompany the Government of Vietnam in Covid-19 response as well as provide Vietnamese health workers with professional training and instructions on how to prevent themselves from contracting the coronavirus disease.
Vietnam will launch the fifth Covid-19 vaccination drive, with volunteer medical workers, people with chronic diseases, poor people, social policy beneficiaries, employees in the pharmaceutical sector, and foreigners the first to receive shots of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, said Deputy Director of the HCMC Department of Health Dr. Nguyen Hoai Nam at a press brief yesterday.
Ho Chi Minh City authorities are determined to curb Covid-19 spread to ensure its twin goal of containing the Covid-19 pandemic and reviving the economy.
Just one day, Ho Chi Minh City yesterday detected 667 suspected Covid-19 cases and most of them are in quarantine wards, Director of the city Department of Health Professor Nguyen Tan Binh said at a meeting on Friday afternoon.
Chairman of the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City Nguyen Thanh Phong has decided to establish some teams which conduct the purchase and use of Covid-19 vaccines for the city’s vaccination acceleration.
