Vietnam spent 45.6 trillion VND (nearly 2 billion USD) from its budget on pandemic prevention and control and supporting people who face difficulties due to COVID-19, as of October 15, according to the Ministry of Finance.
The Cambodian Ministry of Education has announced the reopening of public and private schools nationwide from November 1 with a request on strict adherence to COVID-19 measures set by the Ministry of Health to prevent infections in classrooms, reported the local newspaper Khmer Times.
A Vietnam – Laos – Cambodia youth exchange programme took place virtually on October 22, sharing knowledge on the nations’ friendship and their young people’s experience in COVID-19 prevention and control and adaptation to digital transformation.
The Vietnamese Government always listens to and creates the best possible conditions for foreign enterprises and investors to clear hurdles, set up a new normal environment, and recover their production and businesses at the earliest possible, under the motto of preventing disruption to production and supply chains and ensuring a smooth circulation of goods across the country, stated Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang.
Pandemic prevention and control policies must be unified nationwide, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh told an online conference with the Steering Committees for COVID-19 Prevention and Control of 63 provinces and cities on October 17.
The number of COVID-19 infections detected in the community in Laos remains high, while Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh has tightened pandemic prevention measures.
Defining wards and communes as “fortresses” in COVID-19 prevention and control shows the importance of these areas and does not mean separating them to impede the movement of goods, services and labour, affirmed President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on October 11.
The People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City has recently issued a plan to support foreigners who fall into difficulties due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the city.
Bui Vien Street, a nightlife tourist hotspot in Ho Chi Minh City, is an ideal place for Western visitors and young Saigonese to eat, drink and hang out. But it is still “hibernating” after the city went into lockdown. To make a living in the “new normal”, businesses depending on the street have had to change how they make a living.
Residents in Ho Chi Minh City are advised to stay vigilant in pandemic prevention and control when enterprises and business and production facilities began resuming operations from October 1 after a long suspension due to COVID-19.
The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines is finalising steps to get its fleet ready to return to the sky when many domestic flights are to be resumed in early October.
The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) held a consultation conference in Hanoi on October 1 on its draft programme on economic recovery and development in combination with improving internal capacity and resilience of the economy for the 2022-2023 period.
The Ministry of Health has recommended not conducting periodical COVID-19 testing for fully vaccinated people who received the last shot at least 14 days but not more than 12 months, or former patients who have recovered from the disease within six months.
In response to Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong’s appeal for greater national solidarity to fight COVID-19, Vietnamese people inside and outside the country have supported the work of the Party, Government, and administrations at all levels and sectors in pandemic prevention and control.
In the midst of difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, departments, sectors and socio-political organisations in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa have spent the local pandemic prevention and control fund and mobilised resources to support foreigners living and working in the locality.
Laos has completely locked down four central districts in its capital city of Vientiane in a bid to curb the spread of COVID-19, while Malaysia has planned to offer booster shots of COVID-19 vaccines to frontline forces and the elderly to increase their immunity.
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