Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long has asked agencies and localities nationwide to immediately make plans to carry out the third phase of COVID-19 vaccination on greater scale compared to the previous phases.
The HCMC Government asked the municipal departments of Police and Health along with relevant units and local authorities of districts and Thu Duc City to re-establish Covid-19 monitoring and control stations in land, sea border crossings throughout the city, starting at 0.00 am on May 15.
Vietnam logged 35 cases of COVID-19 in the past 12 hours as of 6:00 am on May 13, 33 of which were recorded in quarantine sites, according to the Ministry of Health.
Deputy Prime Minister and head of the National Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control Vu Duc Dam has asked localities to do their best to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic from spreading in factories, especially at industrial parks (IPs).
Thirty-four new cases of COVID-19, including 33 local infections and one imported, were recorded in Vietnam in the 12 hours as of 6am on May 12, according to the Ministry of Health.
The Center for Disease Control of Da Nang City in coordination with Da Nang International Airport implemented a testing operation on May 11 to test more than 2,000 employees who are working at the airport.
The Indian variant of the novel coronavirus has been detected in seven Covid-19 infection cases in the National Hospital of Tropical Disease’s second branch in Dong Anh District, Hanoi.
The big hospitals of Ho Chi Minh City need to ensure plans to prevent Covid-19 spread in medical facilities, said Chairman of the municipal People's Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong.
The serious observance of the health ministry’s 5K message would help stop the community transmission of COVID-19 in Vietnam, heard a meeting in Hanoi on May 10.
Covid-19 prevention at workplace and business and production establishments in many provinces and cities has not been strictly implemented and positive cases have been reported in an industrial park, said the National Steering Board for Covid-19 Prevention and Control.
The National Steering Board for Covid-19 Prevention and Control this morning announced additional 80 new coronavirus infection cases including two imported cases in the Southern Province of Dong Nai.
Chairman of the People's Committee of the Central City of Da Nang decided to issue cards to each households across the city from May 8 to prevent and combat Covid-19 epidemic.