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The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has issued a list of criteria that sports centers and residents who participate in physical activities must meet in order to ensure safety amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The list includes 10 safety assessment criteria for COVID-19 prevention and control in sport businesses and physical activities. Local sports venues must meet all six mandatory criteria and two out of four additional ones in order to be eligible for operation. Mandatory criteria All staff members have to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or have recovered from the disease within six months. All employees must be regularly tested for the novel coronavirus in accordance with the Ministry of Health’s regulations. People who participate in sports and physical activities have to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or have recovered from the disease within six months. Sports venues must collect customers’ information via QR codes or health declarations on a daily … [Read more...] about Residents must be fully vaccinated to play sports in Ho Chi Minh City

Vietnam is racing against time to vaccinate people in order to soon reopen the economy in affected areas. Vietnam’s Covid-19 cases have reached 707,436 as of Sept. 21, including 67% have recovered, statistics by the Ministry of Health showed. Military medics are important in the pandemic fight in Vietnam. Photo: VNA The total infections were mostly detected in Ho Chi Minh City (49%), Binh Duong (26%), Dong Nai (5%), and Long An (4%). The death toll hit more than 17,000, including 76% in Ho Chi Minh City. The number of average daily infections in Vietnam was 10,330/day over the past week while the number of deaths was 229/day during the week. As the transmission is widespread, Vietnam is racing against time to vaccinate people in order to soon reopen the economy in affected areas. So far, more than 35 million vaccine doses have been administered, including nearly seven million people are fully vaccinated. To get as much vaccine as possible, the country … [Read more...] about Today’s Covid News: Vietnam’s coronavirus infections surpass 700,000

The Ministry of Health recorded 11,687 in Vietnam on Tuesday, alongside 11,017 discharged patients and 240 fatalities. Thirty-four provinces and cities documented 11,687 domestic cases while the country reported five separate imported infections, the health ministry said. The ministry had logged 8,668 locally-infected patients on Monday. Over 6,800 of the latest domestic cases were found in the community, with the remaining detected in sectioned-off areas or centralized quarantine facilities. Ho Chi Minh City reported 6,521 local infections, up by 1,350 patients from yesterday; Binh Duong Province 3,609, up by 2,199; Dong Nai Province 590; Long An Province 254; Kien Giang Province 134; An Giang Province 121; Tien Giang Province 105; Can Tho City 43; Da Nang 15; and Hanoi 12. Vietnam has confirmed 702,972 community transmissions in 62 out of its 63 provinces and cities since the fourth – and worst – virus wave emerged in the country on April 27. Ho Chi Minh City tops the … [Read more...] about Vietnam records 11,687 new coronavirus patients

A promotional image of the event. (Photo courtesy of the organisers) Hanoi (VNA) – The Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Association is holding an online exhibition entitled “Peaceful colours”, featuring 103 artworks by 63 painters and sculptors. The exhibition, the first of its kind arranged by the association, lasts until October 20. As the COVID-19 pandemic has been affecting people’s spiritual life and the development of numerous aspects of life, especially art forms such as painting, sculpture and graphics, the event aims to help people become accustomed to the new normal and motivate artists during the period of social distancing . It is also to bolster cultural exchanges in arts at home and abroad, and encourage optimism amongst artists to surmount the COVID-19 pandemic./. VNA … [Read more...] about Online art exhibition encourages people’s spirit during pandemic

Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on Monday afternoon organized a talk to launch the second phase of its ongoing campaign to help reunite Vietnamese adoptees with their birth parents, following the success of the campaign’s first phase in mid-July. The talk, themed ‘Helping Vietnamese Adoptees Trace Their Roots,’ was held at the headquarters of Tuoi Tre in Ho Chi Minh City in coordination with Kids Without Borders, an organization devoted to facilitating the homeward journeys of Vietnamese-born children adopted by foreign parents. After the first talk was held in mid-July, a Vietnamese adopted by a French couple 23 years ago had the opportunity to reconnect with her biological family in southern Vietnam. Amandine Durand, 23, was moved to tears on Monday as she embraced her birth mother and sister in a surprise reunion during the event – the first time they met after DNA results confirmed their blood ties. “Me oi [Mom]!” she said in Vietnamese in a trembling voice as her … [Read more...] about Tears shed at Tuoi Tre-hosted event to help Vietnamese adoptees trace roots

The unfulfilled love story of Vietnam’s late talented songwriter Trinh Cong Son and a Japanese woman will be made into a movie, the film’s director and producer announced at a press conference in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday. The event, attended by filmmaker Phan Gia Nhat Linh and producer Nguyen Quang Dung – whose father was a close friend to Trinh Cong Son, and the late composer’s younger sister Trinh Vinh Trinh, was held days ahead of the 18th anniversary of his death. Born in 1939, Trinh Cong Son was a prolific songwriter, composing over 600 songs which thematically range from love, human fate to war sorrow. Most of the songs are about love, conveying melancholy and elements of symbolism. Phan Gia Nhat Linh will direct the first-ever feature film about Son, with the late songwriter’s family having rejected several requests to bring his life to the big screen, it was announced at yesterday’s conference. Filmmaker Nguyen Quang Dung (first right), director Phan Gia … [Read more...] about Broken love story of Vietnam’s Trinh Cong Son, Japanese woman to hit silver screen