Ho Chi Minh City's Social Security Agency has been carrying out some policies to support both employees and employers who are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) has proposed an eight-month exemption of health insurance premiums, until January next year, for labourers and firms victimised by COVID-19.

With insurance and social allowance policies, Vietnam’s social security system is believed to be a useful tool for economic and social stabilisation in 2021.

Brookings Institution, a non-profit public policy organisation based in Washington DC, has run an article highlighting Vietnam’s impressive progress in universal health coverage (UHC) over the past decade.

Up to 91.58% of the national population are expected to join health insurance in 2021, according to the Vietnam Social Security (VSS).

Vietnam aims to provide social insurance coverage for all elderly people nationwide by 2021, said Deputy General Director of Vietnam Social Security (VSS) Tran Dinh Lieu at a meeting of the Vietnam National Committee on Ageing (VNCA) on January 15.

Amid difficulties caused by diseases and natural disasters, social and health insurance policies, Vietnam’s major social security policies, have been effectively implemented, said an official at a conference held on January 14.

VOV.VN - There are approximately 88 million people with health insurance nationwide, accounting for 90.85% of the population and exceeding the target set out through Government Resolution No.01 by 0.15%, according to information released at an online conference of Vietnam Social Security (VSS) held on December 24.

VOV.VN - As many as 200 people have registered to participate in clinical trials for the locally-produced Nanocovax vaccine, with screening underway to select 60 people aged between 18 and 50 for the first phase, said Nguyen Ngo Quang, deputy director of the Department of Science, Technology and Training under the Ministry of Health on December 16.

VOV.VN - Pham Luong Son, deputy general director of the Vietnam Social Security (VSS), and Ann Marie Yastishock, mission director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Vietnam, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on November 6 on health insurance co-operation for the 2020 to 2024 period.