Thursday, January 14, 2021 17:10
PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc visits and presents gifts to the social support centre in Quang Nam (Photo: VNA)
Quang Nam (VNA) –
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on February 5 afternoon visited and presented
Tet gifts to vulnerable people who have been cared for at the social support
centre in central Quang Nam province.
The centre has been regularly taking
care of 147 people, including orphans, the disabled and the elderly.
Having presented gift packages
to these people and staff of the centre, PM Phuc affirmed that while stepping
up the country’s socio-economic development, the Party and State have always
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Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Chu Ngoc Anh has requested a halt to festive activities and mass gathering events in public places and stadiums in the face of a COVID-19 resurgence.
Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Chu Ngoc Anh (front, second from left) and other officials check anti-COVID-19 measures at a shop (Photo: VNA)
In his directive, Anh told the city’s departments, sectors, and agencies, and district-level People’s Committees to view COVID-19 prevention and control as the most urgent task now and keep adhering to the motto “fighting the pandemic is like fighting an enemy”.
Vietnam confirms sixth wave of Covid-19 due to UK variant
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Cape Town – An outbreak of the more contagious UK variant of the coronavirus in Vietnam has affected 301 people and spread to 10 counties and cities.
There have been 1,705 new cases, 149 of which were community transmissions and one case of the UK variant documented from abroad.
Hanoi has reported one Covid-19 infection to “patient 1553”, a 31-year-old employee of Quang Ninh Province s Van Don International Airport, who was confirmed to be infected last Thursday morning. Gene sequencing showed that 12 of 276 newly detected patients are positive with the UK variant, although the source of this outbreak remains unknown. We need to follow mask-wearing regulations scrupulously, Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long was reported as saying at a cabinet meeting.
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02/02/2021 12:40 GMT+7
Field hospitals in Hai Duong put into operation in response to COVID-19 outbreak
Two field hospitals with a combined capacity of treating 600 COVID-19 patients have been set up in northern Hai Duong province within just 24 hours.
At an online meeting on January 29 with health units in charge of establishing the hospitals, Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long hailed the fast action of Hai Duong, with the support from the Health Ministry, the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases and Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi.
One of them was built at the medical centre of Chi Linh city, and staffed by 45 doctors and about 70 nurses who can provide treatment for 200 patients. The hospital has admitted 31 patients, including one with underlying diseases and two pregnant women.