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The Republic of Korea (RoK) General Department of Tourism in conjunction with travel agencies in Hanoi organised a tourism promotion programme in Hanoi on July 21 as part of efforts to increase the number of tourists to the RoK after the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) ravaged the country.

Health agencies in central Quang Nam province are taking drastic measures to mitigate the adverse effects of a recent diphtheria outbreak.

The first outbreak of diphtheria in many decades in the mountainous Phuoc Loc commune of central Quang Nam province’s Phuoc Son district has claimed the lives of three locals so far this year.

Thailand will continue to safeguard its citizens against Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers) and other new diseases.

The Philippines on July 6 confirmed the country’s second case of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in a 36 year-old visitor travelling from Dubai.

Hanoi’s Department of Health is intensifying measures to prevent Japanese encephalitis.

The central province of Thanh Hoa organised a conference on July 2 to discuss the implementation of a plan to prevent and handle any emerging MERS-CoV cases.

Central Thua Thien-Hue and northern Nam Dinh provinces have been proactively conducting dozens of precautionary measures against the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV).

The Ministry of Health has asked health departments across the country to increase training courses for doctors and nurses to proactively cope with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) as it develops.

The Pasteur Institute in HCM City was awarded the Labour Hero of the Renewal Era title on June 28 for its contributions to public health.

Precaution measures are being implemented in Thailand’s Deep South against a possible outbreak of the deadly MERS virus, as more than 10,000 Thai Muslim pilgrims plan to travel to Saudi Arabia for the hajj in September.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Health organised an online meeting on June 23 with ASEAN member states, the Republic of Korea, Japan and China to share information on coping with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-Corona Virus (MERS-CoV).

Daily meetings of the Ministry of Public Health continue to monitor the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) situation, while the Department of Health Service Support (HSS) has urged private hospitals and clinics to follow common practices in coping with the MERS case.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is concerned over the spread of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV), said ASEAN Secretary-General Le Luong Minh.

Hanoi has been stepping up precautionary measures to ward off transmission risk of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV), as heard at a meeting on June 18 in Hanoi between Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien and the municipal authorities.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) requested on June 17 that health authorities throughout the country assign round-the-clock on duty staff to prevent an outbreak of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in Vietnam.

There was a shortage of imported vaccines in Vietnam's immunisation services when there was an outbreak of disease, a conference was told in Hanoi last week.

The National Institute for Hygiene and Epidemiology on June 12 confirmed that Park Soon Hum, a Republic of Korea national dead in central Thanh Hoa province on June 10, was negative to the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV).

Vietnam has not recorded any cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV), Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Le Hai Binh told a regular press conference in Hanoi on June 11.