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– Russia defence relations and military-technical cooperation have always
been supported and facilitated by leaders of the two countries to be expanded
and deepened across fields, stated Defence Minister Gen. Phan Van Giang on
September 4. He made the
statement while receiving Russian Deputy Minister of Defence Aleksei
Iurievich, who is in Vietnam to attend the closing ceremony of the
International Army Games 2021’s “Sniper Frontier” and “Emergency Area”
competitions hosted by Vietnam. Highlighting
the countries’ traditional friendship, Giang affirmed Vietnam always values
the development of its comprehensive strategic partnership with Russia as a
priority in its policy for external relations. Since the
pandemic broke out, the defence ministries of Vietnam and Russia have
assisted each other in prevention and control work in their respective
nation, he noted. Appreciating
Russia’s donation of its Sputnik V vaccine for Vietnam in the past time and
its commitment to further offering 20 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine
this year, the minister hoped more vaccine support will come particularly
amid the current complicated developments of the epidemic in Vietnam. Considering
the International Army Games an important multilateral activity attracting
the participation of many nations, including Vietnam, Giang said the
Vietnamese teams have so far earned encouraging results and had a chance to
exchange experience in military training and weapon use. For his
part, Aleksei Yurievich congratulated Vietnam in successfully hosting the two
competitions and expressed his wish for Vietnam’s further support for the
Army Games next year. Vietnam, Russia step up educational cooperation
A meeting took place virtually
between Vietnam and leaders of Kuzbass, an educational organisation from
Russia’s Kemerovo Region on September 3 on the sidelines of the 6th Eastern
Economic Forum (EEF). Reports on
cooperation between academic establishments of the sides were presented at
the event. Also on the
occasion, the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology’s Institute for
Tropical Technology signed a memorandum of understanding for collaboration
with the Kuzbass State Technical University. The 6th EEF
was held in both face-to-face and online formats under the theme of “The
Opportunities for the Far East in a World under Transformation” on September
2 – 4. It featured about 70 activities in its agenda in addition to many
cultural, sport, and youth exchange programmes. In an
interview with the Vietnam News Agency's correspondents in Russia on the
sidelines of the event, Evgeni Vlasov, Deputy Vice-President for
International Relations at Russia’s Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU),
said information technology, biopharmaceuticals and medicine in general,
protecting people, and improving the quality of life will be the future of
cooperation between Vietnam and Russia. According to
Grigory Trofimchuk, Chairman of the Council of Experts of the Eurasian Research
Fund, Vietnam has for years put forth initiatives and suggestions in
contribution to the forum's common activities in order to facilitate the
development of the region./. Danang’s markets, eateries in safe areas can resume operations
from tomorrow Traditional
markets, stores and eateries in Covid-19-free areas in Danang City are
allowed to reopen starting tomorrow, September 5, according to the city’s
anti-Covid authority. After a
20-day lockdown, the city’s anti-Covid steering committee last night issued
new anti-Covid measures, which will come into force from 8 a.m. tomorrow. In
Covid-free areas, also known as “green zones” which have reported no new
cases for 14 days in a row, people are permitted to visit local markets five
times a week and only one person from each household can go to the market
with a QR code slip. Restaurants
and eateries can take orders online and offer delivery services. They are
required to offer only takeaway services and make sure customers follow
social distancing measures. People in
green zones can also join outdoor sports activities in public places from 5
a.m. to 7 a.m. As for
“yellow zones”, the authorities continued to ban residents from getting out
of their houses. People are allowed to go out to join a number of activities
with specific requirements. They must have a mobility permit with a QR code
and an identification card, strictly follow anti-virus requirements and wear
a face shield when they participate in the activities. People can
visit grocery stores and pharmacies around their places of residence. Supermarkets
and wholesale stores can only offer their services to organizations and
individuals that are authorized to shop and deliver goods to local residents. Providers of
gas, electricity, water, fuel, post, telecoms, newspaper and magazine
services, airports and railway stations have to make arrangements for a
maximum of 30% of their employees to be on duty. Banks,
seaport operators, hi-tech parks and industrial zones must allow a maximum of
40%-50% of their employees to work in their facilities. Besides
this, delivery workers are required to wear protective clothes and get at
least one shot of Covid vaccine. Meanwhile,
people in extremely-high risk areas, or “red zones”, have to continue to
follow strict mobility restrictions as regulated earlier. Vietnamese tourism attractions and culture highlighted in Korean
series The
ASEAN-Korea Center in Seoul has launched a series of videos that introduce
tourist sites and cultural resources of four ASEAN member states, including
Brunei, Indonesia, Myanmar, and Vietnam. The virtual
tour features plenty about Vietnamese food culture, from popular local dishes
such as pho bo (beef noodle soup), banh mi (Vietnamese
sandwich) and banh xeo (Vietnamese sizzling pancake), to Hue royal
cuisine which is considered the pinnacle of Vietnamese gastronomy. The
Vietnamese episode will also introduce renowned UNESCO heritage sites such as
Hoi An ancient town, Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex, as well as popular
tourism hotspots, including Phu Quoc Island, Nha Trang, and Dong Van Karst
Plateau. The series
is available for viewers on the ASEAN-Korea Center's YouTube channel. The Republic
of Korea represented the second largest Vietnamese tourism market with a
record high number of 4.3 million in 2019. 77,000 students in HCM City still lack either internet access or
electronic devices Of
more than 1.3 million students from the primary to high school
level in HCM City, 77,000 lack either access to the internet or
electronic devices to study online, according to school surveys
requested by the city Department of Education and Training. Of nearly
650,000 primary school students, more than 55,000 lack the necessary
equipment and a stable internet connection. Some are temporarily staying
in the countryside and cannot return to the city. At secondary
and high school levels, which have nearly 700,000 students, as many as
17,000 do not have internet access and the necessary equipment, while
5,000 have the equipment but have no internet. Authorities
are seeking solutions to support students in need for the upcoming
semester. Schools are calling on HCM City locals to donate old
computers, phones or money to buy new devices for students from poor
families. Students
living in the countryside without either the necessary equipment or the
internet will be able to study online with support from the
locality. For students
who have the equipment but lack internet access in COVID isolation
areas, schools will work with localities to give them the necessary
physical documents. Leaders of
the city Department of Education and Training said that a network of
volunteers will help deliver study materials to students who cannot
pursue online learning. The
department is also working with a television station to produce educational
content, mostly at the primary school level. It will
begin broadcasting in mid-September. The channel will
provide students and parents with the support they need for learning. Middle and
high school students in HCM City will begin online classes on September
8, while primary school students will start on September
20. Vinh Long to ease mobility restrictions as Covid put under
control The province
will take measures to ensure the adequate implementation of social welfare
policies for residents on par with the current Covid-19 situation. Further,
it will make efforts to bring the pandemic under control and shift to a new
normal before September 15, a local official was quoted by Thanh
Nien newspaper. According to
the provincial anti-Covid authority, the situation in the province has been
steadily brought under control. During the past 14 days, daily new
coronavirus cases have fallen, at 23 on average in 51 of 107 communes and wards. Between July
9 and September 3, the province had reported 2,082 cases, with 1,788 of
having recovered and 37 reported dead. As of
September 3, 717 of the province’s 752 hamlets had not reported any fresh
locally-infected cases for over 14 days. Moreover, 85 out of 107 communes and
wards reported no new domestic cases over the past two weeks, according to
the provincial Department of Health. The Mekong
Delta province also recognized that 66 of the 107 communes and wards have
returned to the new normal or can be viewed as safe areas. The province
administered Covid vaccines to over 227,000 people, with over 34,500 of them
fully vaccinated. Embassy assists vaccination campaign for Vietnamese expats in
Malaysia The
Vietnamese Embassy in Malaysia in collaboration with the Vietnamese women’s
union and competent Malaysian agencies organised vaccinations for 200
Vietnamese expats on September 4. People
vaccinated were Vietnamese workers and their families, all aged above 18. Thu Hoa from
Penang said the vaccination benefited 21 Vietnamese workers from the
Malaysian state, adding that she is moved by the assistance she has received. She said she
feels more secured after getting her shot on the day and hoped more
Vietnamese in Malaysia will be vaccinated. Vietnamese
Chargé d’Affaires Nguyen Hong Son informed that the embassy will further
cooperate with competent agencies and Vietnamese communities so that more
Vietnamese, including students and interns, will be inoculated. Mobile
vaccination campaigns will take place to support people in remote areas, he
added. Earlier, in
mid-August, more than 500 Vietnamese in Malaysia were vaccinated./. Recovered Covid-19 patients volunteer to help in hospitals Lately,
touching stories about volunteers who have recovered from the coronavirus
agreed to stay on at stretched hospitals to help health care workers
struggling to cope with an influx of infected people have spread quickly. In his
protective suit, young man Huynh Khang carefully fed an elderly woman in her
bed in a hospital encouraging her to have this bowl of porridge so that she
can get well soon and go home. Despite her breathing problem, the old woman
smiled and had every spoonful of Khang's porridge. Having
caught Covid-19 after participating in volunteer work at a laboratory in Ho
Chi Minh City, student Khang of the Vietnam Youth Academy was taken to the
hospital for treatment. After recovering from illness, Khang began to think
about working in infirmaries as a volunteer to help other patients and wrote
an application to serve in field hospitals. Khang
officially accepted a job at the multi-story Covid-19 treatment field
hospital in Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Binh District, helping take care of
elderly and serious patients who could not live on their own. He shared that
up to now, he feels volunteering is worthwhile despite fatigue and
homesickness as he considered this work as a thank you for the silent
sacrifices by the doctors and nurses who have treated him. Being a
former Covid-19 patient, 33-year-old Nguyen Hong Ky in Tan Binh District
decided to return to the field hospital No.4 to treat Covid-19, where he used
to stay for treatment of Covid-19 to help medical workers here. Every
morning, after putting on a protective suit, the man arrives at the emergency
room to brush patients’ teeth or feed patients. He also changes diapers,
washes hair, cuts nails for the patients. Currently, he is taking care of 10
severe patients being treated in the emergency room. He said his
mother had passed away, so he missed her when looking at elderly patients in
the emergency room. Accordingly, he always takes care of them well with the
hope that they can return to their families soon. Talking
about volunteers who used to be Covid-19 patients, Dr. Kieu Quoc Thanh, Head
of the Emergency Resuscitation Area of the field hospital to treat Covid-19
No. 4 said, medical staff have been overloaded with work as more patients
have been admitted to the hospital every day; subsequently, volunteers can
help take better care of seriously ill and elderly patients so that health
care workers have more time to focus on treating many other patients. Dr. Nguyen
Tran Nam, deputy director of the field hospital to treat Covid-19 No. 4, said
that in the past time, this infirmary has received a lot of support from
former Covid-19 patients. Some people
who have been discharged from the hospital and asymptomatic and completely
healthy patients have volunteered to care for other serious patients.
Besides, because they used to be infected people, they can sympathize with
and easily support serious patient's activities, giving both psychological
and medical support. Deputy
Director of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health Nguyen Hoai Nam shared that
the immune systems of people who recovered from Covid-19 had durable memories
of the virus up to eight months after infection; therefore, former Covid-19
recoveries are a very valuable source of labor in infirmaries. According to
him, recovered people can do cleaning and spray disinfectant in each room as
well as assist nurses in the treatment area so that medical staff can focus
on treating patients. Deputy
Health Minister Nguyen Truong Son yesterday sent a letter to patients who
have recovered from Covid-19 calling on them to join hands in the fight
against the pandemic in Ho Chi Minh City. Mr. Son said
in his letter that if former patients feel adequately healthy and wish to
join hands in the fight against Covid-19, they can register to participate in
the battle at the city Department of Health’s personnel division at 028.39309967
or 0907.574.269. Medical
workers will assess recovered patients’ level of antibodies against the
SARS-CoV-2 virus through rapid tests and arrange the best possible working
conditions for these special patients. Prime Minister pays working trip to Thai Nguyen Prime
Minister Pham Minh Chinh paid a working trip to the northern
province of Thai Nguyen on September 3. After
offering incense to President Ho Chi Minh at a memorial dedicated to him at
Dinh Hoa safety zone on the occasion of the 76th anniversary of August
Revolution and National Day (September 2), he visited the Republic of Korea
(RoK)'s Samsung Electronics Vietnam Thai Nguyen Co. Ltd. At a working
session there, Chinh said Vietnam is stepping up vaccine strategy, including
importing, facilitating technological transfer and producing vaccines at home
as well as speeding up vaccinations for all people, including workers at
Samsung. He suggested
with its prestige, Samsung raise a voice to the RoK Government and partners
to help Vietnam receive, buy and borrow vaccines. The PM also
wished the firm to increase the rate of domestically-made items and export
value in the near future. He proposed Samsung enhance the transfer of
technology and management capacity to Vietnam, as well as create favourable
conditions for Vietnamese to be among senior leaders in its factories in
Vietnam. The leader
pledged to always listen to aspirations of enterprises, including
foreign-invested ones and Samsung in particular. He wished they would work
closely with authorities at all levels to do more successful business in the
country. CEO of
Samsung Vietnam Choi Joo-ho said Samsung now has six factories in Vietnam
with an investment capital of 17.7 billion USD and 38,000 workers. It is
building a research and development centre in Hanoi, which is expected to be
operational in late 2022 and draw 3,000 engineers. He said his
visit aims to inspect preparations for the new academic year 2021-2022 as
well as business operations amid the pandemic. He hailed the province for
effectively working toward the dual goals of fighting the pandemic and
restoring socio-economic development, especially staying ready for the new
school year. The top
Government leader asked the Ministry of Education and Training, Ministry of
Finance, and units concerned to pay more attention to ethnic boarding schools
via issuing policies for remote, border and island areas to ensure fairness
in education. Secretary of
the provincial Party Committee Nguyen Thanh Hai said in the first half of
this year, the province’s gross regional domestic product grew by 6.5
percent. With 18.66 billion USD from exports during the period, Thai Nguyen
was among five provinces nationwide with the highest currency revenue. Its total
State budget collection surpassed 10.2 trillion VND, up 15.7 percent
year-on-year, or 65.4 percent of the estimate. Notably,
Thai Nguyen provided all level-4 administrative procedures on its public
service portal. It was also among 10 provinces nationwide to pass through 14
days without new COVID-19 cases./. HCMC launches free healthcare consultancy for city dwellers The Ho Chi
Minh City Department of Information and Communications collaborated with the
Municipal Department of Health and the HCMC Medical Association yesterday
launched the healthcare consultancy channel for residents following medical
specialty via information portal No.1022 to support and take care of city
dwellers suffering from cardiovascular, endocrine and respiratory diseases. The portal
will receive calls related to healthcare all week-days at stable timelines
from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. All the
calls to information portal No.1022 in the city will be free of charge. Currently,
the healthcare consultancy channel has nine fields, medical specialties. All residents in provinces practicing social distancing to be
tested The Ministry
of Health has asked provinces practicing social distancing under the prime
minister’s Directive 16 to conduct Covid-19 tests for all residents at their
homes by September 15. According to
the ministry, the pandemic has yet to be brought under control in provinces
where Directive 16 is being deployed and the level of community transmission
is still high, the local media reported. To detect
Covid-19 cases early and reduce the transmission risk, the Ministry of Health
asked localities practicing social distancing to accelerate testing,
especially in areas under lockdown and extremely-high-risk and high-risk
areas. The testing
results must be worked out in the course of the day. By September
15, medical workers must visit households in extremely high-risk and high-risk
areas to take their samples for Covid-19 testing, at least three times, using
rapid antigen tests or RT-PCR tests for groups of households. In other
areas, all residents will be swabbed at home every five to seven days. They
will undergo RT-PCR tests in groups of households. Moreover,
localities will continue testing people with symptoms of cough, fever and
shortness of breath. Employees of
hospitals, production and business units, industrial parks and essential
service providers will be tested every three days. The Ministry
of Health also asked cities and provinces to instruct residents to do a
self-test under the supervision of medical workers. As for
localities which are not practicing social distancing, the local healthcare
sectors must conduct tests depending on the pandemic situation there to
detect infections early. Family
members of those working at enterprises providing essential services, banks,
traditional wet markets, supermarkets and trade centers as well as those
living in boarding houses and areas with a high population density will also
be tested. Meanwhile,
staff in hospitals, production and business entities, industrial parks and
essential service providers will be tested every five to seven days. HCM City sees more COVID cases among children The number
of children under 16 years old contracting COVID-19 in HCM City has
risen, partly because of an increase in tests being conducted in
the community, according to the HCM City Centre for Diseases Control and
Prevention. As many as
2,915 children under 16 are being treated for COVID-19 at hospitals or at
home. The total number of COVID-19 patients being treated in the
city is 41,470. Field
Hospitals No. 4 and 11 and Củ Chi Field Hospital are
treating children who cannot stay at home. If the
cases become severe, the patients are brought to the City
Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hospitals No. 1 and 2. Many of them
have underlying health conditions such as obesity, leading to
difficulties in treatment. Most of them, however, have recovered. On August
15, a 15-year-old male COVID-19 patient from District 8, for
example, had acute respiratory distress syndrome,
a life-threatening lung injury that allows fluid to leak into the
lungs. The patient,
who weighed 135 kilogrammes, was prescribed high-flow nasal cannula
therapy that delivers oxygen. Broad-spectrum antibiotics and other medicines
were also used for treatment. After two weeks of treatment, the patient
no longer needed nasal cannula therapy and is now recovering. A
15-year-old girl with severe COVID-19 and obesity also recovered after four
weeks of treatment at the hospital. Dr Trương Hữu
Khanh, former head of the infectious and nervous diseases department
at Children’s Hospital No.1, said: “More and more children are
contracting COVID-19 in the city. However, most cases are mild and they
recover rapidly. Only children who are overweight
or obese can become worse when contracting COVID-19.” Children’s
Hospital No.1 said that it also has admitted severe COVID-19 cases at
various ages. A 21-day-old infant, for example, was hospitalised
due to a fever and a SpO2 oxygen saturation level of 88 per cent. After
being treated for COVID-19, the child is now recovering. Infants who
contract COVID-19 should be closely supervised so that severe symptoms
can be detected and treated in time. Doctors said that parents
should take their children to health facilities for screening and testing if
they have a fever, cough or other symptoms. Vietnam’s National Day marked in Ukraine The Vietnamese
Embassy in Ukraine held a ceremony in Kyiv on September 2 marking the 76th
anniversary of Vietnam’s National Day. Speaking at
the event, Vietnamese Ambassador to Ukraine Nguyen Hong Thach
expressed his delight at achievements made by Ukraine and appreciated further
promoting bilateral comprehensive ties. According to
him, two-way trade rose by roughly 10 percent in the first half. Vietnam was
among five Asian partners of the European country. The two nations
successfully held the 15th meeting of the Vietnam – Ukraine
Inter-Governmental Committee on Economic, Trade, Scientific-Technological
Cooperation in January 2021. He expressed
his belief that with determination of the two countries, bilateral ties will
be further expanded with new achievements in the near future. Ukrainian
Deputy Foreign Minister Dmytro Senik, for his part, said Ukraine is ready to
be a partner of Vietnam in Europe and wished that Vietnam would assist the
country in moving closer to ASEAN member states. On the
occasion, he also conveyed the congratulatory letter of Ukrainian Foreign
Minister Dmytro Kuleba to the ambassador. Participants
at the event were treated with traditional music performances and cuisine of
Vietnam./. All new Covid-19 cases in HCMC found in community From August
29 to September 3, all Covid-19 cases in HCMC were community-transmitted
ones, according to the HCMC Department of Health. During the
period, the city intensified anti-pandemic measures and conducted a mass
Covid-19 testing drive to quickly isolate Covid-19 cases from the community. On September
3 alone, the city detected 8,480 Covid-19 cases, accounting for nearly 4.7%
of the total 180,944 samples collected for testing, rising 2.7 percentage
points over the rate on September 1, Tuoi Tre Online newspaper
reported. Of the total
new cases found on September 3, Binh Tan made up the most, at 777 cases,
followed by District 1 with 736 cases, Tan Binh with 696 cases, District 12
with 669 cases and Binh Chanh with 583 cases. The spike of
new cases on September 3 was the highest during the 12 days HCMC has been
applying strict anti-virus measures and also the highest so far. Deputy
Director of the municipal Department of Health Nguyen Hoai Nam said Thu Duc
City and districts in HCMC were conducting the second stage of the mass
testing drive. According to
the HCMC Center for Disease Control, the city will continue conducting quick
tests for all residents in extremely high-risk and high-risk areas, while
those in areas with a low risk of pandemic transmission and coronavirus-free
areas will undergo RT-PCR tests in groups of five and 10 people,
respectively. In the
current fourth Covid-19 wave, HCMC has reported 241,084 Covid-19 cases. Local cake among world’s top 100 delicious cakes
Tasteatlas,
a renowned website for foodies globally, has named Vietnam’s Steamed Tapioca
Layer Cake (or Bánh da lợn in Vietnamese) among its top 100 Most Popular
Cakes in the world. Foreign leaders congratulate Vietnam on 76th National Day Top leaders
of many countries have sent messages and letters of congratulations to the
Party and State leaders of Vietnam on the country's 76th National Day
(September 2). Indian
President Ram Nath Kovind, in his congratulatory message sent to President
Nguyen Xuan Phuc, highlighted his appreciation for the growing Vietnam-India
comprehensive strategic partnership and the nations’ mutual support amid the
pandemic. Emperor of
Japan Naruhito also cabled his congratulations to the Vietnamese President. Meanwhile,
President of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Moon Jae-in và Speaker of the RoK’s
National Assembly (NA) Park Byeong-seug congratulated President Nguyen Xuan
Phuc and NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue, expressing their belief that the two
countries’ friendship will thrive and their people-to-people exchange will be
deepened. Congratulating
President Phuc and Vietnamese people, US President Joe Biden said he is proud
of progresses made by the two countries in building their partnership for
peace, prosperity and security in the region. He affirmed the US will stand
side by side with Vietnam in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. In their
messages to the Vietnamese State leader, Governor-General of Australia David
Hurley vowed to continue supporting Vietnam in accessing COVID-19 vaccine
sources, while President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier lauded the role
and multilateral efforts of Vietnam and Germany in upgrading the EU-ASEAN
ties to strategic partnership and hoped the bilateral cooperation to grow
stronger despite the pandemic. Also sending
congratulations to Phuc were President of Italy Sergio Mattarella,
Governor-General of Canada Mary Simon, President of Romania Klaus Werner
Iohannis, King of Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf, President of Egypt Abdel Fattah Al
Sisi, Salman of Saudi Arabia Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and Crown Prince of
Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman Abdulaziz Al Saud, President of Algeria
Abdelmadjid Tebboune, and Secretary-General of the International Organisation
of La Francophonie (OIF) Louise Mushikiwabo, among many others. On the
occasion, National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue received congratulations
from Speaker of the Senate of Canada George Furey and Speaker of the House of
Commons of Canada Anthony Rota, President of the Senate of Romania Anca Dana
Dragu, and Speaker of the Mongolian Parliament Gombojav Zandanshatar, among
others. Meanwhile,
similar messages were delivered to Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh from his
Romanian, Bangladeshi and Mongolian counterparts. Minister of
Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son also received congratulations from his
counterparts from Romania, Egypt, Algeria, Mongolia, Turkey, and Sri Lanka./. Vietnam football team return home to prepare for match against
Australia The Vietnam
football team arrived home on September 3 evening and will stay at a hotel
following their COVID prevention bubble rule before their next match against
Australia on September 7 at My Dinh Stadium. Australia
currently are top of Group B after beating China 3-0 at Khalifa International
Stadium in Qatar on September 3. They are scheduled to arrive in Vietnam on
September 4. Before
leaving home, the Vietnamese players lost to Saudi Arabia rivals by three
goals to one in their opening World Cup qualifier on September 3 in Riyadh. "We
scored first but lost this match. We were unlucky suffering two goals from
the penalty spot, and then we played with less men," Coach Park Hang-seo
said at the post-match briefing. "Clearly
the shortage of personnel created more problems for us than our lower level
of technique compared to the hosts. The result, of course, could not be
changed but if we could play with full players, it could have been
closer." Park and his
players did threaten an upset from the off after an early goal by Nguyen
Quang Hai three minutes into the game. The team had to work hard to protect
their lead in the first half. The second
half saw Vietnamese defender Do Duy Manh receiving a second yellow card in
the 54th minute. His sliding challenge resulted in a handball inside the box,
prompting the referee to point to the spot and send Manh off following
confirmation from VAR. In the
second period Saudi Arabia scored two penalties converted by Salem Al Dawsari
and Saleh Al Shehri. Yasser Al Shahrani also scored a stunning header at the
King Saud University Stadium. "My
players tried their best," the coach added. "Two penalties showed
some lack of tactics which will be perfected when we play back home. "In the
next match we know Australia are stronger than Saudi Arabia. But on home
ground, we will try harder," he said./. HCM City gives free books to people in locked-down zones People
living in locked-down and quarantined zones, and patients staying
at COVID-19 treatment hospitals in HCM City, have received free
books as part of the programme “Sách trao tay - Học ngày giãn cách”
(Books for Learning during Social Distancing Days). The
programme was launched by the city Department of Information and
Communications, the southern representative agency of the Việt Nam
Publishers’ Association (VNPA), the Hồ Chí Minh Communist Youth Union of HCM
City, and the Book Street Company. Lê Hoàng,
VNPA’s vice chairman, said: "We hope people can be entertained and learn
from the knowledge in the books during social distancing
days.” “Books are
necessary for people’s cultural life.” Hoàng said
the programme had received huge support from local publishing houses and
book distributors. The
programme has given away tens of thousands of copies of 2,500 book
titles since mid-July. They include comics and colouring books
for children, novels, and medical, skill and reference books for
teenagers and adults. The
programme has also provided a library of more than 2,000 titles of audiobooks
and e-books for free downloading via applications Voiz FM and Waka. Nguyễn Kim
Oanh of Bình Thạnh District said she was surprised and happy when
receiving books from the programme. "I’m a
book lover, so these books are precious to me. With them, I can help my
children create reading habit during social distancing days." Hoàng said:
"Our programme has received a warm welcome from the community,
so we are trying our best to bring more books to the city’s readers.” “We hope
this will entertain people at home and spread the reading culture,
as well as create a reading habit among the community, particularly the
younger generation,” Hoàng added. Sapa tourism scene quiet amid Covid-19 The
previously bustling tourist town of Sapa has become quieter due to travel
restrictions and the lack of tourists. Sapa Church
area used to be crowded with tourists but it has recently been much quieter.
Vuong Trinh Quoc, chairman of the Sapa People's Committee said in the past
few weeks, they only received 250 visitors. People who want to go to Sapa
must be tested for Covid-19 and quarantined. In 2019,
Sapa received 50,000-60,000 visitors. The number of visitors in 2021 as of
now only accounts for 0.04% of 2019's. Most hotels and restaurants are
already closed. "A
large number of visitors were from Hanoi and HCM City and nearby provinces.
However, these provinces and cities are dealing with a severe outbreak and
implementing strict social distancing rules," Quoc said. People in
Sapa also go out less and crowds outside public places are banned. Visitors
to the markets must wear face masks and have their body temperature taken. A
trader said life was getting more difficult since the majority of their
customers used to be tourists. Since travelling is more difficult, the prices
of everything also get higher. Nguyen Van
Dao, a tour organiser, has been out of a job for the past four months. He and
his wife then sell dried salmon floss online to earn some money. But their
business is struggling now as transportation is limited. "Many
people have left the city to wait out the outbreak. Some others tried to find
other work. Sapa has never lack visitors for so long," Dao said. HCMC sets up facilities for Covid patients ineligible for home
treatment Nguyen Ho
Hai, Deputy Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee said that
district administrations ought to set up more treatment and isolation
facilities because the health sector has accelerated testing detecting more
new Covid-19 patients and many of them are ineligible for home
treatment. He made the
statement while paying visits to the multi-story Covid-19 field hospitals in
Ho Chi Minh City’s District 11 and Binh Chanh District encouraging the
medical staff. Many
infection cases are eligible for home isolation whereas other cases that are
not eligible to be placed in isolation need to be taken to concentrated
treatment areas. Therefore, the localities must actively establish more
isolation areas to receive people with Covid-19. He noted
that District 11 and Binh Chanh outlying district have many densely populated
areas, rental houses, and dilapidated houses; therefore, inhabitants in these
districts easily catch the disease. People infected with Covid-19 must be
brought to treatment facilities. The local government must relocate people to
curb the pandemic spread. Speaking at
a meeting with the delegation led by Mr. Nguyen Ho Hai, Doctor Nguyen
Thi Hong Mai, who is in charge of the Covid-19 field hospital in District 11
said that the 200-bed hospital has 200 high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) oxygen
machines for critically ill patients with Covid-19. The hospital receives
patients from wards and district hospitals. Currently, the hospital is
treating 120 patients with Covid-19. In Binh
Chanh outlying district, Dr. Pham Nguyen Anh Vu, deputy director of
the Covid-19 treatment field hospital No. 1, said the 1,000-bed
hospital is currently treating 500 people with mild symptoms and 50 severe
cases requiring ventilation. The facility has so far discharged more than 300
patients including 8 serious cases. Up to now,
the Binh Chanh Covid-19 field hospital No.1 has received more
than 10,000 Covid-19 patients and discharged over 7,000 cases. Nearly 700
infected patients requiring mechanical ventilation have been so far
discharged. According to
hospital leaders, so far, the hospital has limited the number of cases that
have to be transferred to big hospitals contributing to reducing pressure on
the large hospitals. On this
occasion, the Standing Party Committee of Ho Chi Minh City also donated six
HFNC high-flow oxygen machines to the above two hospitals. HCMC Center
for Disease Control said that on September 4 morning, the city recorded
214,603 Covid-19 cases confirmed by the Ministry of Health, including 241,143
cases found in the community and 460 imported cases. At present,
the city is treating 41,470 patients including 2,915 children under 16 years
old, 2,779 put on ventilators and 20 patients in need of ECMO intervention. On September
3, the city recorded 250 Covid-19 related deaths. There were 4,172 patients
discharged from hospitals taking the total number to 120,509 from the
beginning of the year. The city reported 108,955 F0 cases being treated at
home. As of
September 2, HCMC had administered 6,268,327 vaccine doses. Of these,
5,899,379 received their first shots while 368,948 people got the second
shots. HCM City residents need to raise awareness of trading fraudulent
travel pass Senior
Lieutenant Colonel Le Manh Ha, Deputy Chief of Staff at the Municipal
Department of Public Security warned the residents to raise their awareness
of trading fraudulent travel passes. Speaking at
the press conference yesterday on Covid-19 prevention and control, Deputy
Head of the Ho Chi Minh City Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and
Control Pham Duc Hai informed that Ho Chi Minh City has experienced 12 days
of stricter social distancing order implementation. According to the latest
updated Covid-19 news, the Ministry of Health confirmed 233,093 coronavirus
infections with 4,172 daily discharged patients from hospitals in Ho Chi Minh
City by September 2. From January
1 up to now, 120,509 recovered patients have gone home and 9,974 deaths of
Covid-19 have been confirmed. As for the
vaccination process, the city run out of 6,268,327 doses by September 2. From August
15 to September 1, HCMC gave 1,474,683 gift bags to support the poor and
self-employed workers during social distancing days. With 14,000 tons of rice
from the national reserve dedicated for the Covid-19 hit people, HCMC
received and planned to deliver 6,000 tons of rice to the eligible cases as
soon as possible. Amid the
Covid-19 surges, the city health sector has increased the capacity of beds
for hospitalized cases related to Covid-19. According to
Doctor Nguyen Van Vinh Chau, Vice Director of the Municipal Department of
Health, Vietnam has not detected new coronavirus variant apart from the Delta
variant. VNN |
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