Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam speaks at the meeting (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister VuDuc Dam has urged Hanoi authorities to complete the collection of samples forthose from pandemic-hit areas before February 4.
In a meeting with representatives from the municipal People’s Committeeon February 1, Deputy PM Dam stressed that Hanoi faces a high risk of COVID-19infection if it does not quickly carry out COVID-19 contact tracing.
He asked the municipal authorities to keep a close watch on the development ofthe pandemic and complete the collection of samples in the shortest period of time.
Regarding Hanoi’s recommendations on quarantine for F1 cases and testing for F1and F2 cases, Dam said the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control will request for supportfrom the Ministry of Defence.
Hanoi needs to work and learn from experience, as well as pay attention to evaluatingthe disease prevention and control at factories, he stressed.
According to Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Chu Xuan Dung, Hanoihad so far recorded 19 COVID-19 cases linked to the fresh COVID-19 outbreak in Chi Linh city innorthern HaiDuong province.
He suggested the Ministry of Health assist Hanoi in testing 40,000 samples ofF1 and F2 cases.
Deputy Minister of Health Do Xuan Tuyen urged municipal authorities to urgentlytrace F1, F2 and F3 cases, and promote communication activities to call for residents’voluntary medical declaration.
Community pandemic control teams in Hanoi need to enhance their role to swiftlydetect F1 cases, and in collecting samples of F1, F2 and F3 cases.
He also asked Hanoi authorities to prepare quarantine areas for more than 1,000people, an area for treating COVID-19 infections and a standby field hospital./.
Vice Chairman of the Hanoi municipal People’s Committee Chu Xuan Dung has required departments, agencies, mass organisations and people to continue seriously comply with the Prime Minister and municipal authorities’ instructions on strengthening COVID-19 prevention and control.
One more COVID-19 infection was recorded in Vietnam on January 25, raising the total to 1,549, according to the National Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has requested COVID-19-hit areas to cancel the organisation of festivals and cultural activities of mass gatherings in an effort to prevent the spread of the pandemic.
Vietnam reported another COVID-19 infection in the community, and detected no imported cases within the past 12 hours as of 6am on February 2, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
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This case marks the ninth fetal cardiac intervention conducted in HCM City, and it was considered the most technically demanding to date due to the fetus’s extremely early gestational age and the severity of the condition as diagnosed with aortic atresia.
The groundbreaking ceremony took place one day after the VNVC Vaccine JS Company and Sanofi Group exchanged cooperation documents on vaccine production technology transfer under the witness of State President Luong Cuong and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Vietnam’s traditional medicine took centre stage at the International Congress Biopharm Nonclinical Development, BioNCiD 2025, held on May 25-26 in the Cuban city of Varadero, amid growing global interest in sustainable healthcare solutions.
Under the agreement, VNVC and Sanofi will gradually implement technology transfers to enable domestic production of several key Sanofi vaccines that are widely used in Vietnam. In addition, Sanofi will support VNVC in training human resources and quality management in vaccine research and manufacturing.
Despite the ongoing global circulation and unpredictable developments of SARS-CoV-2, the World Health Organisation (WHO) hasn’t issued new warnings about COVID-19, said the Ministry of Health.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam speaks at the meeting (Photo: VNA) 
