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Wayne Besant, CEO of AIA Vietnam, hands over a cheque for VND23 billion to Ministry of Health officials on August 13 for a programme the company has to financially support frontline workers in the fight against COVID-19 who contract the disease. — Photo courtesy of AIA Vietnam … [Read more...] about AIA Vietnam extends and expands financial assistance programme for doctors and medical employees participating in COVID-19 prevention

All members of a ward’s people’s committee in Da Nang's Cam Le district have been isolated after a vice chairman tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, according to a report from the city’s COVID-19 prevention steering committee released on Friday (August 14). … [Read more...] about Latest Coronavirus News in Vietnam & Southeast Asia August 15

The agreement came at a meeting between Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and his Malaysian counterpart Hishammuddin Hussein in the suburbs of Kuala Lumpur on August 14. … [Read more...] about Japan, Malaysia to ease travel restrictions

The new patient, numbered 930, is a 41-year-old woman who had Covid-19 in Russia and recovered, and flew to Vietnam on August 10 on a repatriation flight that landed at Van Don International Airport in northern Quang Ninh Province. … [Read more...] about Vietnam reports 22nd Covid-19 death, Russia repatriate relapses

Hanoi (VNA) - The National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control reported one new imported case and another coronavirus-related death on August 15 morning. The new infection case is a 41-year-old woman from Vu Ban district in northern Nam Dinh province. She had previously been living in Russia where she tested positive for COVID-19 and was treated. After recovering from the virus she was repatriated to Vietnam and immediately quarantined on arrival after landing on August 10. She was tested again and the results revealed she was once again positive for coronavirus. She is being treated at the Nam Dinh General Hospital. There have now been a total of 930 people testing positive for the coronavirus since the first case was detected back in January. Of them, 329 are imported cases and quarantined upon their arrival. Meanwhile, a 63-year-old man in Da Nang city became the 22nd fatality related to the cororavirus SARS-CoV-2. He had a number of underlying health … [Read more...] about Vietnam reports one new imported case, another COVID-19 death