Tag: City
HCM City calls for ideas from OVs to fight COVID-19
The Ho Chi Minh City Committee for Overseas Vietnamese (OV) Affairs has called on the Vietnamese community abroad to join hands with the city in controlling COVID-19 pandemic.
Charter flights to be arranged to send people in southern localities to hometown
The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has asked airlines and airports to support the transport of people from Ho Chi Minh City and southern cities and provinces, which are being hit by the worst-ever COVID-19 crisis, to their hometown.
HCM City pilots mobile app monitoring home-quarantined people
Ho Chi Minh City is piloting the use of a mobile app developed by military-run telecom group Viettel to continuously monitor close contacts with COVID-19 patients, or F1 cases, who are under home quarantine.
Big shipment of rhino horns, wild animal bones seized in Da Nang
VOV.VN - Customs officers of Da Nang city in collaboration with other relevant units discovered a shipment of 138kg of suspected rhino horns and 3.1 tonnes of animal bones taken from various rare and precious wildlife species.
HCM City’s COVID-19 control fund receives over VND1 trillion
The Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Ho Chi Minh City on July 17 reported that it had received more than VND1 trillion (US$43.47 million) in donations from organisations and individuals for the city's COVID-19 prevention and control fund since March 30 last year.
Ho Chi Minh City residents receive help during social distancing
VOV.VN - In the first week of a 15-day social distancing period in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s largest economic hub, city residents and citizens across Vietnam have stayed united to help each other through this difficult time.
National COVID-19 count crosses 51,000 after 2,472 new cases recorded
VOV.VN - The national infection tally rose to more than 51,000 after the Health Ministry confirmed a further 2,472 fresh cases of COVID-19, including 18 imported on July 18 morning, with Ho Chi Minh City continuing to suffer the most infections at 1,756.
Daily count rises by 3,718, more southern localities to enforce social distancing measures
VOV.VN - A further 1,612 new COVID-19 cases, including 1,600 local cases and 12 imported infections, were recorded on the evening of July 17, with Ho Chi Minh City registering the highest number of infections with 2,786 for the whole day.
HCM City sets up additional medical site to treat severe F0 patients
VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City has established a 1,000-bed hospital in an effort to treat severe COVID-19 cases, according to information provided by municipal authorities.
1,898 fresh COVID-19 cases raise daily tally to 3,336
VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health reported the detection of a further 1,898 new cases of COVID-19, including 15 imported infections on the afternoon of July 16, increasing the total daily infections to 3,336.
