The Global Association of Vietnamese Scientists and Experts (AVSE Global) organised an award ceremony for the Hack4Growth-Covid Endgame innovation contest in Hanoi on December 26.
As many as 399 districts across Vietnam have been identified as high risk areas for the outbreak of bird flu while another 314 districts are at low risk, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).
About 126,000 people have tuberculosis (TB) in Vietnam, but fewer than 106,000 have received treatment, while the others are undetected and sometimes unaware of their status, said Director of the Hanoi-based Central Pulmonology Hospital Nguyen Viet Nhung.
Health experts exchanged experiences at a recent workshop in Hanoi on the application of the microarray-based CGH technique in reproductive health support and genetic disease detection.
Three years since Vietnam
started to introduce agro- insurance policies back in 2011, bottlenecks
still remained and there was plenty of work to be done to protect
farmers from natural disasters.