Although it is currently the tourist season, Pling Island in Southern Thailand has been closed since May 9 to allow the natural environment to have more time to recover after the discovery of extensive coral bleaching.
Vietnam’s economy is likely to strongly recover in the second quarter of 2023, said Tim Leelahaphan, Economist for Thailand and Vietnam at Standard Chartered.
On March 15, Vietnam’s tourism industry in general and Hanoi’s in particular set out on the road to recovery. It is difficult to convey the joy felt by those who work in Hanoi’s tourism industry upon witnessing the industry reopening and readying itself to welcome guests once more.
To recover and develop its tourism sector after the travails caused by COVID-19, the central province of Quang Binh has introduced a number of tourism stimulus programmes and new product offerings in a bid to attract more visitors. Tourist numbers have already been on the rise in the opening weeks of the year, which is a positive sign for recovery.
The Vietnamese aviation market is predicted to begin recovering by the middle of the third quarter with this year’s total estimated capacity of over 70 million passengers.
Vietnam has so far controlled its second wave of COVID-19 quite well, helping social activities return to something approaching normal. Cafés and other venues selling beverages like coffee and soft drinks have been reopened and are as vibrant as they were prior to the pandemic.
After a long period of disruption due to COVID-19, the retail market in the central city of Da Nang has begun to recover. Purchasing power in the domestic market remains quite low, however, and many wet markets and shopping centres are deserted still.
Patient 409 in Phu Quoc island district off the coast of the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang was declared to have recovered from COVID-19 on August 11.
Four more COVID-19 patients have recovered and were released from the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases on July 31, lifting the total cases being given the all-clear to 373.
Following the first five months of 2020, Vietnam enjoyed a trade surplus of 1.88 billion USD. Of that figure, foreign direct investment firms accounted for 10.52 billion USD while domestic firms accounted for 8.64 billion USD.
Fourteen COVID-19 patients recovered and were released from two treatment facilities in the southern provinces of Bac Lieu and Dong Thap on June 1 afternoon.
Vietnam’s 268th COVID-19 patient, who was quarantined and treated at the Dong Van General Hospital in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang, was declared to have fully recovered from the disease on April 30.
Six more COVID-19 patients have recovered at the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases on April 22, bringing the country’s total cases being given the all-clear to 222.
The Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control has reported that three more patients have been cleared of the virus, raising the total recovered tally to 201.
Malaysia has recovered 1.4 billion ringgit (323 million USD) stolen from the country’s development fund 1MDB, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin's office said on March 17.
The world prices of cashew nut are forecast to recover in the second quarter of this year to levels higher than that in the past two years, according to the Department of Farm Produce Processing and Market Development under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Vietnamese Ambassador to Eygpt Tran Thanh Cong has affirmed that eight out of 12 Vietnamese people who were injured in the recent bomb attack in Cairo have completely recovered and could return home.
