VOV.VN - The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) have issued a telegram urging both airports and airlines to strengthen their supervision over passengers wearing face masks in terminal areas, especially during Reunification Day on April 30 and May Day on May 1, along with the upcoming summer season.
For the Hung Kings Temple Festival to take place safely and efficiently this year, authorities of the northern province of Phu Tho has directed relevant units to build detailed plans ensuring conditions to thoroughly implement COVID-19 prevention and control measures.
VOV.VN - Roughly 1,600 officers, soldiers, and defence staff from various armed force units were given their first jab of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on April 13, with the recipients based in the Tien river region and border guards in An Giang, Dong Thap, Tien Giang, Ben Tre, Dong Thap, and Tra Vinh provinces.
VOV.VN - The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) have emphasised the need to reopen the international tourism market, while simultaneously highlighting the importance of setting out a roadmap and various conditions in order to open borders for tourists once COVID-19 preventive measures have been put in place.
The Ho Chi Minh City Buddhist Sangha presented VND1 billion (US$43,400) to the committee for the mobilisation, reception, and distribution of COVID-19 prevention funds through the city’s Fatherland Front Committee on March 15, giving a helping hand in the fight against the pandemic.
VOV.VN - The Ministry of Science and Technology is striving to fast track its research programmes in order to strengthen its ongoing fight against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, especially in terms of vaccine research, Deputy Minister Le Xuan Dinh has said.
Vietnamese authorities are in talks with partners on how to safely resume commercial flights, according to Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang.
VOV.VN - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has decided to add VND502.9 billion (US$21.8 million) to the 2021 State budget expenditure estimate in a bid to step up COVID-19 pandemic prevention and control efforts.
VOV.VN - A total of 360 Vietnamese citizens, including minors under the age of 18, sick people and other specially difficult cases were repatriated from Singapore after touching down at Can Tho International Airport on March 7.
VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health on March 5 afternoon reported an additional six new COVID-19 cases imported into the nation, including one found in Binh Duong, one in Tay Ninh and four in Kien Giang, bringing the imported infection count in Vietnam to 922.