A ceremony marking the resumption of travel across the border was held at the Lao Cai - Hekou international border gate in the northern border province of Lao Cai on January 8, after three years of hiatus caused by COVID-19.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on November 30 chaired a meeting with People’s Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities and Vietnamese embassies and representative agencies abroad on vaccine diplomacy.
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on September 2 adopted a resolution on the organisation of a “High-level meeting on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response”.
Jochen Flasbarth, State Secretary in the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), has underlined the need to enhance the bilateral cooperation between Vietnam and Germany in the coming time, especially working together to prevent and be ready to deal with new diseases that may break out.
As many as 11,000 COVID-19 test kits donated by Pharmacity to serve the 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 31) were handed over to the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Committee of Hanoi at a ceremony on April 19.
The Government has agreed with a proposal from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on fully reopening international tourism activities in the “new normal”, starting from March 15. With the great news, the northern province of Quang Ninh, home to Ha Long Bay, has taken many measures to welcome tourists back while ensuring the safety of all.
Representatives of the Ministry of Industry and Trade has coordinated with authorities of China’s Yunnan province in holding a teleconference on customs clearance of goods and pandemic prevention and control cooperation at border gates between the two sides.
As schools up and down the country return to in-person learning for the first time in months, guidelines are being updated on how to deal with the inevitable situation of positive cases being found in the classroom.
Hanoi authorities continue to implement measures to help its people safely and flexibly adapt to and effectively control the COVID-19 pandemic, and follow the policy of decentralisation by assigning the right to carry out pandemic prevention and control for districts and towns, as the number of new infections in the capital city is on an upward trend.
Film screenings marking the 92nd founding anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the upcoming Lunar New Year will take place nationwide from January 26 to February 6, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced on January 25.
WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific Takeshi Kasai on January 11 said the World Health Organisation backs visions and viewpoints in the COVID-19 prevention and control programme set out by the Vietnamese Government to flexibly response to new variants.
Vietnam has become one of the six countries with highest COVID-19 vaccination coverage in the world, according to a report at a teleconference between the Government and localities on January 5.
The Lao Health Ministry reported on January 2 that the country logged 644 new COVID-19 cases, including three imported ones, in the past 24 hours in 17 cities and provinces, and six deaths.
Deputy Minister of Health Tran Van Thuan received 100,000 doses of the Sputnik Light COVID-19 vaccine donated for Vietnam by the Russian Government at a ceremony held in Hanoi on December 29.
Demand of goods in Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s biggest, is increasing gradually before the Lunar New Year holidays thanks to promotions and the greater diversity of products than last year.
With permission from the authorities of countries, budget carrier Vietjet Air expects to reopen regular international flights starting January 1 next year.
A programme to inspire art creativity is scheduled to take place in Hanoi downtown between December 24 and 31, aiming to create an attractive multi-dimensional "dialogue" between creative arts in a cultural and artistic space.
The first delegations of international tourists to Vietnam under the Government's "vaccine passport" pilot programme arrived in Da Nang, Quang Nam and Phu Quoc last week. This "ice-breaking" move of the tourism industry and localities shows the efforts and good start of the Government’s policy of safe pandemic prevention and control and effective economic development.