Health ministry urges enhanced Zika, dengue fever prevention
The Ministry of Health on May 25 requested provinces and centrally-run cities nationwide to enhance the prevention and control of the Zika virus and dengue fever.
Children with dengue fever under treatment at the Paediatric Hospital of southern Dong Nai province (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Health on May 25requested provinces and centrally-run cities nationwide to enhance theprevention and control of the Zika virus and dengue fever.
Provincial-level People’s Committees were toldto direct local efforts to eradicate mosquito larvae and fumigate dengue feverhotspots to prevent the mosquito-borne diseases from spreading, while monitoringall households in affected areas.
They were also asked to collect and send samplesfrom suspected Zika cases to the hygiene and epidemiology institutes or Pasteurinstitutes in their regions to conduct confirmatory testing, which will helpassess the prevalence of Zika in order to take prevention and control measures,according to the Health Ministry.
On May 20, Vietnam’s communicable diseasesurveillance system recorded a Zika patient in Lien Chieu district, Da Nangcity.
This year, more than 26,000 dengue fever cases,including three deaths, have been reported in 58 provinces and centrally-runcities.
Ho Chi Minh City, the southern metropolis,recorded nine new dengue fever hotspots on the first days of the rainy season,the municipal Department of Health said on May 25.
It saw 113 new patients between May 19 and 24,raising the number of dengue fever infections to 6,893 from the outset of 2020.The cases were concentrated in District 3, 6, 9, 11, Binh Thanh and Go Vap./.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) will amend the guidelines on diagnosis and treatment for dengue patients in a bid to improve the effectiveness of treatment and reduce the mortality rate caused by the disease.
A combination of various public health and preventive medicine specialties should be paid attention to at the domestic and international levels to protect people’s health amid emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases globally, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son told a recent conference at the Pasteur Institute in HCM City.
Vietnam hopes to receive further assistance from the World Health Organisation (WHO) to improve the country’s healthcare system, including disease prevention, primary health care and building healthcare law, said Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam.
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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.
Children with dengue fever under treatment at the Paediatric Hospital of southern Dong Nai province (Photo: VNA) 
