VIETNAM NEWS HEADLINES MAY 14 (Updated hourly) Chia sẻ | FaceBookTwitter Email Copy Link Copy link bài viết thành công
14/05/2021 09:12 GMT+7
Vietnam in top seeded group of AFC U-23 Asian Cup qualification
Members of Vietnam’s national U22 team during a practice session
Vietnam’s national U23 team is ranked 13th and among five squads in the top seeded group of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-23 Asian Cup qualifiers.
The AFC recently announced the list of 46 teams divided into two regional groups for a draw of the qualifiers.
The No.1 seeded group in Southeast Asia and East Asia also comprises the reigning champions the Republic of Korea, Australia, Thailand and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Update: May, 13/2021 - 17:41 |
Officers of the Bạc Liêu Province s military command receive COVID-19 vaccine shots. VNA/VNS Photo Chanh Đa
HÀ NỘI Almost 1.7 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX scheme are expected to arrive in Việt Nam on Sunday, health minister Nguyễn Thanh Long said on Thursday.
The health chief said that the vaccine, supplied by the global vaccine sharing initiative COVAX Facility and delivered by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), will be distributed to all agencies and localities to speed up the national vaccination drive, especially for priority groups.
This is the second batch from COVAX in addition to the shipment of 811,200 doses of AstraZeneca that arrived on April 1.
Vietnam Airlinesâ frontline personnel inoculated against COVID-19 16:34 | 13/05/2021
As many as 1,500 frontline employees of national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines are being vaccinated against COVID-19 from May 13 to 20.
Vietnam Airlines is the first carrier in the country to have both the flight crew and ground handling workers vaccinated against COVID-19 (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi â As many as 1,500 frontline employees of national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines are being vaccinated against COVID-19 from May 13 to 20.
They comprise pilots, flight attendants, and ground staff, who have frequent contact with passengers.
The inoculation, using the AstraZeneca vaccine, is carried out at the vaccination centre of the Hanoi-based Vietnam National Childrenâs Hospital, with about 250 people to get the jabs each day.
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10/05/2021 13:31 GMT+7
Hoa Binh City applies social distancing
The People’s Committee of Hoà Bình City, Hoà Bình Province, decided to apply social distancing for the whole city with a population of more than 135,000 people from midnight on Monday until further notice.
The move came after the COVID-19 pandemic showed complex developments in recent days.
Under the decision issued on Sunday, all meetings or gatherings of more than 20 people in a room (excluding meetings with voters) are banned.
People in the city were banned from gathering in groups of more than 10 people outside the workplace, schools or hospitals and they were told to keep a minimum distance of 2m among each other in public places, the decision said.
Sunday, 11:00, 09/05/2021
Local airlines including Vietnam Airlines, Pacific Airlines, Vasco and Bamboo Airways are scheduled to raise their respective system administration fees by VND100,000 (US$4.37) per flight, which will be incorporated into current air ticket fares.
Under the move, passengers buying air tickets from airlines under the Vietnam Airlines Group, including Vietnam Airlines, Pacific Airlines and Vasco, would pay system administration fee of VND350-450,000 (US$15.3-19.66) per flight (including value-added tax), an increase of VND100,000 (US$4.37) from the previous month.
Such price hike would be applied for all domestic flights that Vietnam Airlines Group are operating.
In a similar move, Bamboo Airways said it would raise the system administration fee for both single and group tickets from May 10 by VND90,000 (US$3.93) to VND320,000 (US$14) and VND460,000 (US$20), respectively.