Vietnam records no new community COVID-19 infection for 36 days
Vietnam recorded no COVID-19 cases on October 8th morning, marking 36 days in a row without new infections in the community, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
Vietnam recorded one new imported case of COVID-19 over the last 12 hours, bringing the national total to 1,099, the national steering committee for COVID-19 prevention and control said on October 7 evening.
The German development agency Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), in cooperation with the Directorate of Vocational Education and Training and the Departments of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs in eight cities and provinces, will offer short training courses for 1,000 workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The flexible and creative application of a strategy to prevent, detect, isolate, zone and control COVID-19 had played a decisive role in Vietnam’s successful battle against the pandemic, experts have said.
The number of COVID-19 cases in six major provinces of Indonesia has dropped in the past week, said an expert team member of the country's COVID-19 task force on October 7.
There were no new COVID-19 cases to report in Vietnam in the morning of October 8, which is also the 36th straight day without community transmission of the coronavirus in the country, according to the national steering committee for COVID-19 prevention and control.
