VIETNAM NEWS HEADLINES MARCH 8 Chia sẻ | FaceBookTwitter Email Copy Link Copy link bài viết thành công
08/03/2021 11:17 GMT+7
Vietnam begins COVID-19 vaccination on March 8
Vietnam launches its COVID-19 inoculation drive on March 8 morning, administering the AstraZeneca vaccine to medical workers in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and northern Hai Duong province – the country’s biggest pandemic hotspot at present.
The vaccination is conducted at the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi, the HCM City Hospital for Tropical Diseases and two medical centres in Hai Duong.
As many as 100 staff members of the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases are expected to receive the shots in the morning of March 8. The hospital is allocated 450 doses among the first batch of 117,600 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine the country has received.
Caritas helps feed Covid-hit people in Vietnam
Pandemic epicenter Hai Duong province has been badly hit by anti-coronavirus measures
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Caritas workers give rice to Quyet Thanh Commune officials on March 2. (Photo courtesy of gphaiphong.org)
Caritas in northern Vietnam has provided food aid for tens of thousands of people who have been badly affected by anti-coronavirus measures in the country’s epicenter of the pandemic.
Hai Duong province, which has become the epicenter of the third wave of Covid-19 in Vietnam, has recorded 701 infections since Jan. 28, when the first cases were detected in the province.
The province with 100,000 factory workers started to be isolated on Feb. 16 to contain the pandemic. Many places are still in quarantine.
Hai Duong raises total domestic cases to 1,585, with one more reported Chia sẻ | FaceBookTwitter Email Copy Link Copy link bài viết thành công
07/03/2021 19:02 GMT+7
The Ministry of Health reported the discovery of five fresh COVID-19 cases on March 7, including one in the biggest coronavirus epicenter of Hai Duong, and four imported cases in Kien Giang and Hanoi.
With the fresh infections, the national infection tally rose to 2,512, including 1,585 domestically-transmitted cases, and 927 imported cases.
Hai Duong remains the locality recording the highest number of local infections with 708 cases since the initial outbreaks recurred in the country on January 27.
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01/03/2021 09:57 GMT+7
Vietnam logs no new COVID-19 infections on March 1 morning
Vietnam documented zero COVID-19 infections in the past 12 hours as of 6:00 am on March 1, leaving the national tally unchanged at 2,448 patients, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
Earlier, Vietnam reported 16 COVID-19 cases at 6pm on February 28, including 12 locally infected cases in the northern province of Hai Duong, the country s largest COVID-19 hotspot, and four imported cases in the southern provinces of Tay Ninh and Dong Thap.