A woman in HCM City donates blood before the Tết holiday. VNA/VNS Photo Đinh Hằng HÀ NỘI The resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic in many cities and provinces in recent weeks has seriously affected the blood supply for medical treatment. Although many people and organisations responded to the call of blood donation by the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT) on February 19, the amount of blood received per day was still only a few hundred units while the average need for treatment each day is from 1,200 to 1,500 units. There is usually a shortage of blood during the
Burnout, depression stalk Vietnamese mothers coping with pandemic stress
By Long Nguyen February 24, 2021 | 11:13 am GMT+7
Increased financial insecurity and even heavier domestic burdens are stressing out Vietnamese mothers as they struggle with the fallout of Covid-19.
Le Thi Phuong, an hourly wage worker at a textile firm in Hanoi’s Long Bien District, starts her 90-minute lunch break at noon by rushing home to feed her children, whose school and kindergarten have been closed due to the new Covid-19 wave.
After lunch is done, she cleans the dishes, helps the children sleep, and returns to the factory, sometimes after screaming and yelling at my babies.
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At the handover ceremony (Photo: VNA)
Quang Ninh (VNA) - Representatives from the northern border
province of Quang Ninh received medical supplies from
Dongxing city and the Guangxi
Zhuang Autonomous Region in China at a ceremony held at Bac Luan II Bridge in
Mong Cai city on February 8.
The aid included 5,000 personal protective suits, 2,000 pairs of protective
glasses, and 1.8 tonnes of disinfectant from Dongxing.
The
Quang Ninh is one of Vietnam’s new
COVID-19 hotpots. As of the morning of
February 8, the province had recorded 47 community infections in this latest
outbreak, which began on January 27./. VNA
Taking samples for COVID-19 testing for residents. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam detected 16 cases of
COVID-19 in the
community over the past 12 hours to 18:00 on February 7, bringing the national
count to 2,001, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19
Prevention and Control.
All new cases were recorded in
Hai Duong province – the country’s largest COVID-19
Of the tally, 1,111 are locally transmitted, including 418 infections in the
community since the pandemic broke out again in northern Hai Duong and Quang
Ninh provinces on January 27.
The Subcommittee for Treatment reported that four patients were given the
all-clear on February 7, bringing the total recoveries to 1,472. The number of