At least 15,000 Filipinos are expected to participate in the World Health Organisation-led coronavirus vaccine trial that will likely kick off this month, a Philippine government official said on January 6.
The Sputnik news agency of Russia recently published an article that reviewed commentaries on Vietnam posted by Russian and other countries’ press outlets, reflecting Vietnam’s COVID-19 combat and achievements in different areas, especially diplomacy and economy.
An international workshop on November 18 and 19 is underway to provide a forum for foreign experts to share their experience and make recommendations on promoting active ageing and mental health in ASEAN member states.
Expanding COVID-19 testing is one of four key measures that played a decisive role in treating the disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 in Vietnam, said a top health official.
With no new COVID-19 cases recorded on October 16 morning, Vietnam has now entered 44th day without a single community infection, according to report from the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
No new COVID-19 case was reported in Vietnam from 6pm on October 14 to 6am on October 15, marking the 43rd days without any infections in the community, according to the National Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
The website www.bac-si-giai-dap.com, a France-Vietnam cooperation project, was launched on October 13 in an effort to raise public awareness of less popular but serious respiratory diseases with high death risk.
A ceremony to hand over the World Health Organisation (WHO) Guidelines on Integrated Care for Older People (ICOPE) to the Vietnamese Health Ministry was held in Hanoi on October 1, in response to International Day for Older Persons (October 1).
Ambassador Pham Hai Anh, Deputy Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN, has expressed concern at seeing no improvement in the humanitarian situation in Syria in the face of a much broader spread of COVID-19.
Vietnam hailed the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s initiative to set up the Facilitation Council of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A) as it will help step up the development and equitable distribution of vaccines and technologies in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, said Ambassador Le Thi Tuyet Mai, head of the Permanent Mission of Vietnam to the UN, WTO and other international organisations in Geneva.
It appears that Vietnam has been able to put the recent COVID-19 outbreaks under control, which started in the central city of Da Nang in late July, World Health Organisation (WHO) representative in Vietnam Kidong Park has said.
Budget airlines Vietjet Air on August 12 started selling 1.5 million tickets for flights during the next Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday to meet the traveling demands of customers.
The Cambodian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MoEYS) has confirmed that several schools will no longer require their staff and students to conduct COVID-19 tests when they are allowed to reopen this month.
While COVID-19 remains under control in Laos, dengue fever has continued to be an issue in the country, with 4,256 cases, including nine deaths, between January 1 and August 2.
World Health Organisation (WHO) representative in Vietnam Kidong Park has said the occurrence of new COVID-19 cases in Vietnam’s central city of Da Nang is not alarming, as the virulence of this strain is no different from that in other countries.
Vietnam is one of the 42 countries able to produce vaccines and among 38 nations to have a vaccine management agency meeting the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s standards.
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