VOV.VN - The government of Vietnam has decided to cut short the average incubation period and the time when no additional cases of infectious diseases are detected as a basis for declaring an end to infectious diseases, including COVID-19 in Vietnam.
VOV.VN - The Health Department of the Mekong Delta province of Long An announced on October 11 that the southern locality had detected its first case of monkeypox.
VOV.VN - The Ho Chi Minh City health sector has confirmed that the southern city has detected four additional cases of monkeypox, thereby taking total infections up to 13.
VOV.VN - The health sector of southern Binh Duong province said on October 6 that it has carried out epidemiological investigations, following the discovery of the second monkeypox case in the locality.
VOV.VN - The Ho Chi Minh City Centre of Disease Control (HCDC) on October 4 confirmed that the southern city has detected an additional case of monkeypox, taking total infections to five in the locality alone.
The Ministry of Health has submitted to the Government a proposal to declare the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as a group A disease and abolish a number of pandemic prevention measures.
VOV.VN - Vietnam has so far recorded four monkeypox infections, mainly in the southern region.
VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health (MoH) on September 22 asked health departments of all localities to enhance measures against Whitmore, also called melioidosis, following a 15-year-old death of the infectious disease.
VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health (MoH) has requested that localities proactively implement prevention and control measures for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases, as well as steps to prevent the EG.5 coronavirus strain.
VOV.VN - Provincial and municipal People's Committees are eligible to direct specialized agencies to review the pandemic situation and announce the end of COVID-19 in accordance to their competence on the basis of the guidance of the Ministry of Health and the regulations of the Law on Infectious Disease Prevention and Control.