Vietnam has no new cases of Covid-19 to report in the past 12 hours to 6am of May 3, keeping the national count at 2,962, according to the Health Ministry.
One toddler in the Mekong Delta Province of Ben Tre died of viral meningitis, an inflammation of the lining of the brain and spinal cord. Worse, the country has recorded 150 cases of meningitis from the beginning of the year.
Genome sequencing data have shown that Indian experts and one staff of a hotel in the Northern Province of Yen Bai has infected with India’s homegrown variant of the novel coronavirus.
The Hue Central Hospital in the Central Province of Thua Thien – Hue yesterday announced surgeons had performed a corneal transplant from a dead-brain donor.
The Center for Clinical Pharmacology in Hanoi Medical University announced to seek volunteers for clinical trial of type 2 diabetes on April 21.
Vietnam has reported the first case of Noonan syndrome on an eight-year-old girl.
In Vietnam, nearly 80,000 people in 22 provinces and cities have so far been injected with Covid-19 vaccine; there have been no cases of blood clotting disorders.
The Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control April 16 said that it had just received 56,250 doses of Covid-19 vaccine from the Pasteur Institute. The vaccine was allocated for the second phase of the vaccination drive.
With demand for Covid-19 vaccines outpacing the world's supplies, Vietnam has been entering a tough race against the clock to have Covid-19 vaccine soon.
Vietnam is working to soon develop its own home-made COVID-19 vaccines, a representative from the Health Ministry told a meeting of the standing board of the National Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control on April 14.
Director of Bach Mai Hospital Nguyen Quang Tuan yesterday confirmed the mass resignation of nearly 200 employees there and deliver convincing reasons for the case.
The Health Department of the southern province of Binh Duong has submitted to the provincial People’s Committee the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines for local people.