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COVID-19: 21 imported cases logged on April 15

April 15, 2021 by en.vietnamplus.vn

Illustrative photo (Source: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam recorded 21 new cases of COVID-19 , all imported, in the past 12 hours to 6pm April 15, according to the Health Ministry .

The national total added to 2,758, including 1,570 domestically-transmitted cases.

The number of recovered patients now stands at 2,445 and the death toll remains at 35.

Among patients still under treatment, 16 have tested negative for the novel coronavirus once, 18 twice and 18 thrice.

A total 38,743 people who had close contact with COVID-19 patients or arrived from pandemic-hit areas are being quarantined across the country, with 517 at hospitals, 22,945 at concentrated facilities and 15,281 at home or accommodations./.

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Ca Mau man jailed for brokering illegal entry to Vietnam

April 16, 2021 by en.vietnamplus.vn

Le Van Thao at the court (Photo: VNA)

Ca Mau (VNA) – The People’s Court of the southern province of Ca Mau on April 15 sentenced Le Van Thao, born in 1963 and residing in Son Doc town, Tran Van Thoi district, to nine years in prison on the charge of organising illegal entry to Vietnam for 38 people.

Under the indictment of the Ca Mau People’s Procuracy, Thao, also known as Le Hoang Thao, received a phone call on January 18, 2021 from his relative Pham Hoang Lo from Malaysia and Au, a friend of Thao. Lo and Au asked Thao to use his boat to transport some people to the mainland for 25 million VND (1,083 million USD).

After making the deal with Lo and Au, Thao operated his boat plated CM 99323-TS to bring 38 people from Malaysia into Vietnam illegally.

His vessel has been seized. Meanwhile, the 38 illegal immigrants have been put under investigation./.

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Vietnam reports 14 more imported Covid-19 patients, total reaches 2,772

April 16, 2021 by dtinews.vn

14 Vietnamese people who recently returned from abroad have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, raising the total number of patients in the country to 2,772, the Ministry of Health reported on Friday evening.

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According to the ministry’s report, the newly-reported patients include eight men and six women aged between 21-69 who recently returned to Khanh Hoa, Nghe An, and Quang Nam provinces, and Danang and Ho Chi Minh cities from Japan, the UAE, and Russia.

They were all sent to local quarantine sites upon arrival and are now being treated at local hospitals.

With these new infection cases, the number of Covid-19 patients in Vietnam has increased to 2,772, including 910 locally-transmitted cases reported since the new outbreak started in Hai Duong on January 28.

As of 6 pm on April 16, a total of 2,475 Covid-19 patients had recovered and been discharged from hospital. There have been 35 deaths, most of them being the elderly with serious underlying diseases.

At present, over 40,000 people who had close contact with Covid-19 patients or returned from virus-hit areas are being monitored at hospitals, quarantine facilities, and at home.

Vietnam logs 14 imported COVID-19 cases on April 16 evening

April 16, 2021 by en.nhandan.org.vn

The new patients brought the national count to 2,772.

On the same day, 30 patients were given the all-clear, bringing the number of recoveries in Vietnam to 2,475. The death toll remained at 35.

Of those still under treatment at medical facilities, 11 have tested negative for the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 once, 16 twice and 18 thrice.

A total 40,398 people who had close contact with COVID-19 patients or arrived from pandemic-hit areas are being quarantined across the country, with 524 at hospitals, 24,612 at concentrated facilities and 15,262 at home or accommodations.

9.1 million Vietnamese workers affected by Covid-19 in Q1

April 16, 2021 by e.vnexpress.net

Among the affected, 540,000 lost their jobs during the period while 3.1 million had their working hours reduced or took unpaid leave, with 6.5 million others reporting reduced incomes, the General Statistics Office (GSO) reported Friday.

The country’s labor force shrunk by 1.1 million against the previous quarter to 51 million, the report stated.

Pham Hoai Nam, head of the GSO’s department of population and labor statistics, blamed the dark picture on the resurgence of Covid-19 before the Lunar New Year, the country’s biggest festival.

Vietnam encountered a new wave of Covid-19 on Jan. 28 in what the government said was caused by the U.K.-originated variant. In February, many areas in Vietnam were placed under lockdown as authorities raced against time to contain the spread of the virus.

The service sector was hit hardest by the crisis with 20.4 percent of workers affected, followed by the processing and manufacturing industries, along with agriculture.

The average monthly income in the first quarter was VND6.3 million ($272.95), down 2.3 percent over the previous year.

According to the GSO, the unemployment rate in the first quarter was 2.42 percent, down 0.21 percentage points against the previous quarter and up 0.08 percentage points year-on-year.

Severe Covid-19 impacts have seen as many as 40,300 companies shut up shop in the first quarter, a year-on-year increase of 16 percent.

GSO hoped the government would soon implement a Covid-19 vaccine passport so aviation, tourism and services could recover from the impacts of the pandemic.

The government closed borders and canceled all international flights in March last year, allowing in only certain categories of people including foreign diplomats and specialists and with stringent conditions.

Vietnam’s GDP grew 4.48 percent in the first quarter.

The government has set a GDP growth target of 6.5 percent for 2021.

9.1 million labourers affected by COVID-19 in Q1

April 16, 2021 by en.vietnamplus.vn

Participants at the press conference (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – As many as 9.1 million Vietnamese people aged 15 and above were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in the first quarter of this year, Director of the Department of Population and Labour Statistics under the General Statistics Office (GSO) Pham Hoai Nam told a press conference on April 16.

Nam said that of those affected, 540,000 people lost their jobs and 2.8 million had to temporarily cease business and production activities .

Meanwhile, 3.1 million people said they had their hours cut or were forced to take time off from work, while 6.5 million workers reported reductions in their income.

Workers in urban areas were more severely affected than those in rural areas, with 15.6 percent of those in urban areas still affected, compared to 10.4 percent in rural areas.

Nguyen Minh Huy, deputy director of the department, said Vietnam recorded fewer workers in the first quarter of 2021 both quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year. Vietnam has long posted rising numbers of workers each year.

The workforce totalled 51 million people in the quarter, down 1.1 million quarter-on-quarter and nearly 181,000 year-on-year.

The GSO said the third wave of COVID-19 in Vietnam affected the recovery of the country’s labour market, pushing a lot of people, especially women, into the informal economy.

The number of employed workers aged 15 and over in the first quarter was 49.9 million, down more than 959,000 against the previous quarter and nearly 178.000 against the same period last year./.

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