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Many people living in Ho Chi Minh City have shown support for the metropolis’ largest-ever COVID-19 immunization drive by showing up at vaccination venues to get inoculated against the respiratory disease. The drive kicked off on June 19 and is carried out at 650 injection locations every day until June 27, using 836,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine developed by British-Swedish firm AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford. In addition to priority subjects designated by the government, this vaccination campaign benefits others including essential service providers, teachers, health workers, people working at administrative agencies, people over 65 years old, and workers at industrial parks and export processing zones. Aside from some vaccine-hesitant people, many others were eager to line up and get injected against COVID-19, doing their part in slowing and hopefully ending the pandemic. One of the first arrivals at the vaccination site at Hoang Hoa Tham High School in … [Read more...] about Ho Chi Minh City citizens eagerly participate in its largest-ever COVID-19 inoculation campaign

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport has proposed that 400 taxis be operated to take local residents to hospitals after the transport service was banned as part of COVID-19 prevention and control measures in the city. The transport department asked the municipal People’s Committee to consider letting 200 taxis of Vinasun Corporation and 200 cabs of Mai Linh Group to resume operations. This will provide favorable conditions for citizens to travel to local hospitals and medical centers. In accordance with Directive No. 10 of the Ho Chi Minh City administration, all taxis, app-based car services, inner-city buses, and inter-provincial coaches were suspended from Sunday. Following the ban, local residents have met a lot of difficulties whenever they need to go to healthcare facilities, the transport department stated. During a social distancing period in the metropolis in April 2020, 200 Mai Linh taxis were operated to transport citizens to local infirmaries. The cabs … [Read more...] about Ho Chi Minh City transport department proposes operation of 400 taxis as ambulance service

Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City began applying stricter social distancing measures from Sunday due to the increasingly serious COVID-19 pandemic. During the current outbreak, which began on April 27, Ho Chi Minh City has so far recorded 2,013 local infections, the second highest in Vietnam. The metropolis entered a period of social distancing on May 31 before local authorities decided to implement stricter measures from June 19 due to a sharp spike in coronavirus cases. In accordance with the latest directive from the municipal People’s Committee, non-essential businesses and unofficial markets are shut down. Taxis, app-based car services, inner-city buses, and inter-provincial coaches are suspended, except for vehicles designated by the local transport authority to carry patients to hospitals in emergency cases. Gatherings of more than three people in public places and in front of schools, offices, and hospitals are banned, while people must keep a minimum distance of 1.5 … [Read more...] about What are social distancing measures in Ho Chi Minh City?

Particularly, two resuscitation and six vaccination teams from the hospital will administer COVID-19 vaccine to troops and workers of Air Force Division 370 and Air Defense Division 367. Due to the special nature of the job and the large number of troops, this vaccination drive is expected to last 5 to 7 days. In preparation for the drive, the doctors and nurses of the hospital carefully checked vaccine shots and syringes and prepared modern medical equipment to monitor troops’ health after being vaccinated and deal with cases with severe side effects in an effective manner. On the same day, Military Hospital 175 sent its personnel to assist Ho Chi Minh City’s medical force in vaccinating workers in the city. Also on June 22, the Military Institute of Preventive Medicine in the South cooperated with the Ho Chi Minh municipal Border Guard Command to vaccinate border troops, naval troops and the public security force in the city. At these events, the Health Ministry’s 5K … [Read more...] about Troops in Ho Chi Minh City vaccinated

Illustrative photo (Source: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City will prioritise seven transport projects as part of its smart urban programme during the 2021-2025 period. The projects aim to apply technologies in urban management in the southern metropolis. Of the projects, six are expected to use the city’s budget with total funding of 851 billion VND (37.1 million USD), and the other is worth about 5.7 trillion VND from other sources. To implement such projects, the municipal People’s Committee has assigned the Department of Transport to coordinate with the Department of Information and Communications, the Department of Home Affairs and relevant agencies to raise proposals regarding human resources development in order to bring into full play achievements of the fourth Industrial Revolution in smart urban management . The committee also asked relevant units to continue rolling out smart urban projects under the project on building HCM City into an urban … [Read more...] about HCM City prioritises seven transport projects for 2021-2025

Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – The supply of affordable and social housing in Ho Chi Minh City continued to be far below the demand due to a shortage in the segment in the first sixth months of this year. According to Director of the city Department of Construction Tran Hoang Quan, among nearly 12,000 apartments from 14 projects meeting conditions to mobilise investments in the first half of 2021, 7,000 units, or 58.92 percent, are in the high-end segment and the remaining in the middle segment. Compared to the same period last year, although the number of projects meeting requirements to mobilise investments is unchanged, the number of housing rises 61.5 percent, with a 122.57-percent increase in the high-end segment and a 294.85-percent increase in the middle segment. However, there is no affordable housing project. According to Le Hoang Chau, President of the HCM City Real Estate Association , said that in recent years, the city has seen … [Read more...] about HCM City faces shortage of affordable housing