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In recent years, Hanoi’s agriculture sector has created favourable conditions for organisations and individuals to develop the farm economy.

Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN, and his counterparts of South Africa, Sweden, and New Zealand have co-chaired a consultation on a UN General Assembly (UNGA) draft resolution on the epidemic preparedness and response.

Flexible and effective outreach by 43 local community-based organisations (CBOs) has made significant progress possible in preventing HIV infections and providing treatment for HIV-positive people in Vietnam.

The Ministry of Health on December 27 held an online meeting connecting with 63 provinces and cities nationwide, spotlighting the importance of vaccination to everyone.

From November 16, Hanoi also allowed voluntary concentrated quarantine of close contact (F1) cases at hotels. This will help to reduce load to the health sector, and at the same time meet the needs of many people.

Laos saw its number of daily COVID-19 cases dropping by 159 on November 15 compared to the previous day, while the Philippines began a pilot scheme to resume in-person classes for the first time since the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, with an initial number of 100 schools.

An additional 7,930 infections of COVID-19, including 12 imported cases, were recorded in Vietnam on November 10, bringing the nationwide tally to 992,735.

Hanoi sets out detailed measures for mass gathering activities such as weddings, funerals, religious activities that people should pay attention to.

The COVID-19 epidemic has put many workers in Hanoi in a difficult situation. In particular, the poor people in the fishing village along the Red River who normally have difficulties are now more and more deprived of food sources to serve their daily lives.

These volunteers participate in many different jobs such as transporting goods and supplies, coordinating people to buy goods, helping to send shopping carts to disadvantaged people continuously from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm every day.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has urged the government to inform the public that it is impossible to completely eradicate COVID-19 despite improvements have been recorded in pandemic control in recent times.

Through reports of residential groups, grasping the difficult situation of self-employed workers who lost their jobs in the area, the People's Committee of Ngoc Ha ward has periodically organized supplies and supported food and other necessities to each situation, with the criterion "no household will be hungry”.

The spokesman of Indonesia's COVID-19 Task Force, Wiku Adisasmito, said Indonesia has established a task force to supervise the implementation of 3M health regulations (wearing a mask, maintaining distance and hand washing) in the context of restrictions on community activities being gradually eased in many places.

According to the Hanoi Center for Diseases Control (CDC), 191,633 samples were taken all over the city. Of these, results have been announced for 72,959 samples have been announced (including eight positive samples and 72,951 negative samples)

Tuong Mai ward is located near the gateway to the capital. The ward is adjacent to many large wholesale markets, especially the Southern wholesale market, which has been isolated from the end of July.

With the current situation of the COVID-19 epidemic in Hanoi, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has also asked the Hanoi Department of Industry and Trade to have a plan to arrange mobile shopping points in the city.

In a typical "green zone," people living in that zone would set up barricades and guard all the entrances to ensure the safety of the whole area.

Based on the nature of work, people divide shippers into many types: traditional, technological, goods shippers, paper, even food shippers.

The Ministry of Health reported 3,201 new infections of COVID-19, including 3 imported cases, from 6:30 pm on August 1 to 6am on August 2, bringing the national count to 157,507.

The Ministry of Health reported 4,246 new infections of COVID-19, including 21 imported cases, from 6am to 6:30 pm on August 1, bringing the national count to 154,306.