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HCMC to impose e-health declaration mandate starting tomorrow The Saigon Times Passengers make health declarations at the Noi Bai airport in Hanoi. All residents in HCMC are required to make electronic health declarations starting tomorrow, June 24 - PHOTO: VNA HCMC – All residents in HCMC are required to make electronic health declarations starting tomorrow, June 24, to serve the fight against Covid-19, which is showing no signs of abating in the city. Duong Anh Duc, vice chairman of the municipal government, has sent a dispatch to departments, agencies, the authorities of Thu Duc City, and districts regarding the citywide electronic health declaration mandate. Duc said that HCMC had launched the “Electronic Health Declaration System” which can apply to all medical facilities in the city, aimed at facilitating contact tracing activities. To continue enhancing the effectiveness of the e-health declaration system in the anti-virus fight, the city asked all … [Read more...] about HCMC to impose e-health declaration mandate starting tomorrow

South Korea is Vietnam’s biggest investor and second-largest trade partner. Foreign ministers of Vietnam and South Korea discussed different fields for enhanced bilateral relations when they met in Hanoi on June 23, focusing on economic ties, manpower, tourism, people-to-people links. South Korea's Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong (L) and Vietnam's Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son in Hanoi on June 23. Photos: Baoquocte The South Korean foreign minister visited Vietnam on June 21-23 to attend the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM)’s High-level Policy Dialogue held in Hanoi. At talks with his South Korean counterpart Chung Eui-yong, Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son expressed his delight at the fruitful development of Vietnam-South Korea relations in all fields in recent years, affirming that Vietnam always attaches importance to its relations with South Korea, considering the country as one of its top partners. In terms of investment, South Korea is Vietnam’s … [Read more...] about Vietnam and South Korea discuss comprehensive ties

South Korean Ambassador to Vietnam Park Noh Wan suggested that Vietnam be more flexible in terms of quarantine duration for South Korean businesses and experts. South Korean enterprises have asked the Vietnamese government to adopt quarantine rules with greater flexibility for businesspeople and experts upon entering Vietnam. Minister-Chairman of the Government Office, Chairman of the Council Mai Tien Dung (right) and South Korean Ambassador to Vietnam Park Noh Wan (left). Photo: VGP. This proposal was made at a dialogue held for the first time between the Vietnamese Prime Minister’s Advisory Council for Administrative Procedure Reform and the South Korean business community on July 17. South Korean Ambassador to Vietnam Park Noh Wan said there have been 4,300 South Korean experts and businesspeople entering Vietnam recently, and the figure is poised to increase in the coming time. Park suggested Vietnam be more flexible in terms of quarantine duration for … [Read more...] about S.Korean businesses ask for ease of quarantine rules upon Vietnam entry

Vietnam said it has relaxed quarantine rules for foreign businessmen. Roughly 570 businesspeople from South Korea will arrive in Vietnam today [July 22] as the two countries make efforts to facilitate economic activities in the face of economic slowdown in the Southeast Asian country. South Korean experts arrive in Vietnam. Photo: Bsr.com.vn The businessmen will come to Vietnam on chartered airplanes, Yonhap News Agency cited the South Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE). MOTIE said a group of more than 1,500 people will also be sent to Vietnam throughout August. According to MOTIE, Vietnam was South Korea’s third largest export destination in 2019. Meanwhile, statistics by Vietnam’s Ministry of Planning and Investment showed that South Korea was Vietnam's biggest investor in the same year with US$7.92 billion worth of foreign direct investment (FDI), accounting for 20.8% of the Southeast Asian country’s FDI in 2019. Big South Korean … [Read more...] about 570 South Korean businesspeople to arrive Vietnam today

Additional 88 domestically-transmitted COVID-19 cases reported Vietnam logged 97 new COVID-19 cases, including 88 domestic and nine imported, in the past six hours to 6pm on June 22, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said. Most of the new cases were detected in Ho Chi Minh City, with 63 infections, and the remainders were discovered in Bac Giang (12), Bac Ninh (6), Hung Yen (2), Nghe An (1) and Hanoi (1). By 6pm on June 22, the country had recorded a total of 12,010 domestically-transmitted infections and 1,717 imported cases. The number of locally-transmitted cases since the fourth COVID-19 wave hit Vietnam on April 27 amounted to 10,875, including 2,772 recoveries. According to the MoH’s Medical Service Administration, 5,546 patients have given the all-clear from coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 to date, while the death toll related to the disease was 69. Among active patients undergoing treatment, 377 have tested negative to the virus once, 132 twice and 141 thrice./. 12-hour … [Read more...] about VIETNAM NEWS HEADLINES JUNE 22

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