HCM City has no plans to inoculate children aged 12-17 against COVID-19
Ho Chi Minh City currently has no plans to vaccinate children aged 12-17 against COVID-19, deputy head of the municipal Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control Pham Duc Hai affirmed on October 18.
HCM City (VNA) - Ho Chi Minh City currently has no plans tovaccinate children aged 12-17 against COVID-19, deputy head of the municipalSteering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control Pham Duc Hai affirmed onOctober 18.
According to him, the municipal Department of Health isasking for directions from the municipal People's Committee on the plan.
Regarding the reopening of on-site restaurants, deputy headof the municipal Department of Industry and Trade Nguyen Nguyen Phuong statedthat the city also does not have any plan to resume on-site catering in fear oflarge gatherings.
Meanwhile, Nguyen Van Lam, Deputy Director of the municipalDepartment of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, said that the city hasto date provided allowances from support packages for about 5 millionpeople.
There are still about 1.5 million people who have not receivedassistance. Therefore, the department has proposed and got approval from themunicipal People's Committee to extend the support period until October 22,said Lam.
Regarding the return of workers to Ho Chi Minh City, he saidthat the labour supply will be better in the coming time.
At the meeting, Le Thien Quynh Nhu, Deputy Chief of theOffice of the Health Department, stated that there is also a roadmap for the COVID-19 treatment hospitals inthe city to stop operating./.
More than 111,000 employees in Ho Chi Minh City have benefited from the Government’s new support package sourced from the unemployment insurance fund, according to the city’s Social Insurance Agency.
Ho Chi Minh City’s first waterway transport service officially resumed operations on October 16 after being suspended for nearly four months as part of social distancing measures to curb the spread of COVID-19.
Despite storm-related disruptions and flight delays, the organs were successfully transported via a combination of air and ground travel. All patients are currently stable and recovering well.
The patient, Tieu Viet But, born in 1970 and residing in Binh Tri commune, Binh Son district, the central province of Quang Ngai, was working aboard fishing vessel Qng – 95657TS when the incident occurred at 7:00 am.
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To achieve its goal of becoming a developed nation by 2045, Vietnam is prioritising the integration of AI and digital tools into the training of future doctors, said Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Viet Nhung, Dean of Medicine at University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vietnam National University (VNU) Hanoi.
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All eligible patients will receive surgical interventions and post-operative care in accordance with Vietnamese medical standards and global care protocols.
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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.
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