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Vietnam records three more COVID-19 cases on March 7 afternoon

March 7, 2021 by en.nhandan.org.vn

The new cases included two imported who were quarantined in Bac Ninh Province right after their arrival, and one in Hai Duong Province.

The new patients brought the total count in the country to 2,512, including 1,585 domestically-transmitted cases.

The Treatment Subcommittee reported that a total of 1,920 patients had been given the all-clear from the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 so far, and the fatalities remained at 35.

Among the active patients undergoing treatment, 65 tested negative to the virus once, 57 twice and 137 thrice.

As many as 45,219 people who had close contact with confirmed COVID-19 patients or entered Vietnam from pandemic-hit regions are being quarantined across the country, including 506 in hospitals, 14,266 in other establishments, and 30,446 at home.

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The importance of vaccination

March 8, 2021 by vietnamnews.vn

Mattias Larsson. Photo courtesy of Family Medical Practice

by Mattias Larsson*

Vaccines are one of the pillars in modern medicine that has contributed to decreasing child mortality from about 20 per cent of live born children down to in Việt Nam 1.5 per cent and in most western countries 3-5 per 1,000 live born children.

Most children in Việt Nam, about 90-95 per cent, are reported to have received their vaccinations according to the general vaccination programme. But still, some parents are concerned about the vaccine’s safety and side effects. Are their concerns justified?

Mild side effects such as fever or redness and soreness or pain at the injection site are common and are just a sign that the body is responding properly. More serious side effects can be allergic reactions or febrile seizures that affect one in ten thousand. But these side effects are transient or can be treated.

The measles epidemic in Việt Nam in 2014 had more than 15,033 confirmed cases and 146 fatalities among young unvaccinated children.

The first MPR vaccine is given at 12 months of age. During the first year of life, the child has a certain protection from the mother, provided that the mother has adequate protection. Measles is caused by a virus and the disease is highly contagious, there is a risk for permanent disabilities and death.

The risk of complications is great, every fifth patient gets one or more complications. About one in a thousand risks encephalitis which can cause permanent damage, such as lifelong paralysis and in the worst case death.

To be protected against measles, you must have either had the disease or been vaccinated with two doses of the vaccine. In 1982, the MPR vaccine was introduced, which began to be given in two doses and which provides adequate protection.

However, many parents are still afraid that the MPR vaccine, against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR), can cause autism. It is known today that there is no connection.

Concerns began to spread in the late 1990s when the medical journal Lancet published results reporting that a link had been found between the measles vaccine and autism. However, other researchers, who have done similar studies, could not find any such connection and in 2010 the Lancet officially withdrew the publication of the article.

Several large studies in different countries have compared the prevalence of autism and a possible link to the MPR vaccine, but none of these have found any connection. The World Health Organization WHO has also investigated the issue and come to the same conclusion.

A common argument against vaccines is that it is considered good for children to undergo the various childhood diseases, to train the immune system. It is certainly good that the immune system is allowed to train. Our immune system is exposed to as much else as it can train on, without having to be exposed to childhood diseases, as most parents to small children experience with the frequent colds.

It is desirable that as many as possible get vaccinated for other reasons as well. There are people who for various reasons can’t get vaccinated. It may be due to severe immunodeficiency disease, people who have a weakened immune system due to cancer treatment or transplant recipients who always have to take immunosuppressive medications. Or those who have a certain hypersensitivity to any component of the vaccine.

If many in the surrounding community are vaccinated, these people are protected by herd immunity. There is simply no infection in circulation that can infect them. But the protection only applies as long as these individuals stay in areas with good vaccination coverage.

New vaccines that are developed must first undergo the same clinical trial phases as all other drugs, and after they have entered the market, a continuous side effect follow-up is performed by, among others, the Medical Products Agency. When the new COVID-19 vaccines are beginning to be distributed to millions and even billions of people some rare side effects might get reported. Also here it is important to compare with the risk of the disease.

You should definitely not neglect side effects, but vaccines that are part of the Vietnamese vaccination programme are safe. At this time, these vaccines have been distributed in many millions of doses and we have had very few reported serious side effects. Family Medical Practice

* Mattias Larsson, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Family Medical Practice Hanoi, Global Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Honorary Professor, Hanoi Medical University

Family Medical Practice was the first foreign-owned primary healthcare provider in Việt Nam, and has consistently remained at the forefront of international-standard medicine since 1995. It offers extensive healthcare and emergency medical services nationwide to Vietnamese, expatriate and corporate customers.

For more advice on any medical topics, visit https://www.vietnammedicalpractice.com; or visit our clinics:

Family Medical Practice Hanoi on 298 I Kim Mã Street, Ba Đình District or call (024) 3843 0748. Email: [email protected] .

FMP’s downtown HCM City location is at Diamond Plaza, 34 Lê Duẩn Street, District 1; Other facilities are at: 95 Thảo Điền Street, District 2. Tel: (028) 38227848. E: [email protected] .

FMP Danang is located at 96-98 Nguyễn Văn Linh Street, Hải Châu District, Đà Nẵng. Tel: (0236) 3582 699. E: [email protected] .

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Vietnam reports only one local coronavirus infection on Sunday

March 7, 2021 by tuoitrenews.vn

Vietnam’s Ministry of Health recorded only one domestic COVID-19 case on Sunday, a day before the nation starts mass inoculation with AstraZeneca.

The latest local infection was registered in Hai Duong Province, which is the country’s current epicenter.

The patient had been exposed to an infection and been quarantined since February 25.

The health ministry also logged four imported cases the same day, including two in Bac Ninh Province in the north and two in Kien Giang Province in the south.

Vietnam had gone nearly two months without any domestic COVID-19 cases before it found the first one on January 27 and confirmed it one day later, according to the Ministry of Health’s data.

A total of 892 local cases have been announced in 13 provinces and cities since then, making it the most serious wave to have struck Vietnam after the first-ever COVID-19 patient was announced in the country on January 23, 2020.

Hai Duong alone accounts for 708 cases, while Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have confirmed 35 and 36 patients, respectively.

The southern city has recorded zero new local cases for 24 days.

Vietnam has recorded 2,512 coronavirus cases as of Sunday night, including 1,585 local infections and 35 virus-related fatalities, according to the Ministry of Health’s data.

A total of 1,920 patients have recovered from the respiratory disease.

The dead had suffered from comorbid medical problems, including 31 in Da Nang, three in Quang Nam Province, and one in Quang Tri Province.

Vietnam will start vaccinating people in the said provinces and cities as well as other priority groups , including frontline workers, diplomats, military and police officers, and teachers on Monday.

The country currently has 117,600 AstraZeneca vaccine doses it received on February 24 .

Vietnam aims to obtain 90 million COVID-19 vaccine doses by the end of the year, including 30 million through the COVAX scheme co-led by WHO, 30 million through AstraZeneca, and the rest through negotiations with U.S. producers.

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Three more Covid-19 patients in Hai Duong, Bac Ninh

March 7, 2021 by english.thesaigontimes.vn

Three more Covid-19 patients in Hai Duong, Bac Ninh

The Saigon Times

A centralized quarantine center in Hai Duong Province. Three more Covid-19 cases have been confirmed – PHOTO: VNA

HCMC – Vietnam has had 2,512 Covid-19 cases as of 6 p.m. today, March 7, after a locally-infected case and two imported cases were reported in Hai Duong and Bac Ninh, respectively.

According to the Ministry of Health, the patient in Hai Duong, who resides in Tu Ky District, had close contact with the 2,415th patient. The case has been put under quarantine at a centralized quarantine center since February 25 and is being treated at the Field Hospital No. 3 at the second campus of the Hai Duong General Hospital.

Meanwhile, the two imported cases include a 30-year-old man and a 33-year-old woman. They are Philippine experts.

On February 22, they landed at the Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi and was sent to a quarantine facility in Bac Ninh.

They tested positive for Covid-19 on March 7 and are being treated at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi’s Dong Anh District.

In related news, the Bac Ninh government on March 7 affirmed that the pandemic in the province had been basically put under control. Therefore, services in the province will be resumed tomorrow, March 8, including bars, beer clubs, karaoke and massage parlors, cinemas, spas and casinos.

Religious, cultural, historical and tourist sites have been also allowed to reopen but they are allowed to hold ceremonies only, not festivals.

However, pandemic prevention and control measures must be still employed strictly.

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Vietnam closes borders to foreigners as coronavirus infection toll nears 100

March 22, 2020 by hanoitimes.vn

The Hanoitimes – Vietnam’s spokeswoman said all protective measures are based on the virus situation and with no discrimination against anyone.

Vietnam has barred the entry of all foreigners from March 22 as the latest tough move to curb the rising number of coronavirus cases that originated mostly from outside the country.

The restriction made at Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s request is applicable to people of Vietnamese origin (who benefit from visa exemption) and their family members.

Foreign visitors in Vietnam. Photo: Zing

The temporary suspension is not applicable to entrants holding diplomatic and official passports, as well as others who are experts, corporate executives, skilled laborers, and guests of important foreign affairs.

Foreign diplomatic missions in Vietnam shall commit to conduct medical supervision over their citizens during their stay in Vietnam.

Overseas Vietnamese (students, laborers, and people of Vietnamese origin) are advised not to flock home and closely follow other countries’ regulations on pandemic prevention. Vietnamese who want to return to the home country need to register for flights that will be arranged by the Ministry of Transport and make medical declarations and follow quarantine requirements.

Authorities are asked to strictly control the entry by land, air, sea, and inland waterways.

Gradual entry suspension

A Vietnam Airlines flight attendant. Photo: Vietnam Airlines

Since the breakout of the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in China, Vietnam has prepared for the control with a number of protective measures.

On January 30 , Vietnam imposed visa suspension on Chinese visitors and halted flights from and to China.

On February 29 , Vietnam halted visa-free entry to South Korean citizens and quarantined all people coming from or traveling across South Korea within 14 days by the date of entry after President Moon Jae-in raised the country’s infectious-disease alert level to the highest.

On March 3 , Vietnam stopped applying visa exemption to Italian nationals after this European country reported more than 2,000 people infected.

On March 12 , Vietnam suspended visa issuance to nationals of eight European countries namely the UK, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Germany, France, and Spain.

From March 15 , Vietnam suspended entry of citizens from the UK and Schengen Area that comprises of 26 European countries.

On March 18 , Vietnam ceased visa issuance to all foreigners for 30 days. The restriction is not applicable to entrants holding diplomatic and official passports.

From March 21 , the country applied visa suspension to citizens from Japan, Russia, and Belarus.

Seeking sharing and collaboration

Temporary suspension of foreign visitors is one of tough measures that Vietnam must take over the past time to prevent the spread of the pandemic. “It’s a hard decision to make” as Spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

Vietnam’s protective measures, including mandatory quarantine, applied for both Vietnamese and foreigners are based on the complexity of the virus situation and in line with the International Health Regulations (IHR) and without discrimination, Hang said in a statement on Saturday.

Vietnam expects to receive the sharing and collaboration of countries and territories in implementing the measures, Hang said, adding that the country will make changes depending on the situation.

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Vaccine passports – the future?

March 6, 2021 by www.vir.com.vn

vaccine passports the future
Vaccine passports – the future?, illustration photo, source: internet

At the end of December, thousands of Europeans received the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine after the company received authorisation in the EU. Since then, other countries such as the US, Israel, the UAE, Bahrain, India, and several Asian countries, including Vietnam, have also started to receive or order vaccines to prepare for mass vaccination programmes.

This has awakened optimism about an end to the pandemic and the idea of a vaccine passport.

A heated discussion

Some parts of the world, such as the Seychelles, Cyprus, and Romania, have begun to remove quarantine requirements for visitors who have been vaccinated. In early January, Denmark also announced that it would issue vaccine passports to citizens within the next three to four months.

To get digital vaccine passports, Danish citizens will have to declare their medical and vaccination status on a government-issued app. Owners of such passports will be able to return to Denmark without quarantine and receive access to bars, restaurants, and hotels.

Iceland became the first European nation to issue vaccine certificates in late January. While Greece also announced it will unveil a digital vaccination certificate for those who have received two doses of the vaccine, Israel recently announced that a so-called Green Badge will allow vaccinated people to go to restaurants, attend public events, and travel freely. Other countries that are currently issuing or waiting for vaccine passports include the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, and Sweden.

Despite being supported by several countries and seen as a necessary condition for freedom of movement, vaccine passports have received mixed reactions in many places. The UK, the first in the world to vaccinate people against COVID-19, had previously denied plans for vaccine passports to allow people to travel abroad, but they can ask for proof of vaccination in case they need to travel.

One of the reasons not to issue a vaccine passport is that COVID-19 vaccination is not compulsory in the UK, said MP Nadhim Zahawi. The EU is also divided over vaccine passports. Some, such as France, Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands, as well as organisations like the World Health Organization and the European Commission, also argued that vaccine passports do not ensure safe travel.

In France, Health Minister Olivier Véran has repeatedly said it is too early to discuss vaccination passports since fewer than 2.5 million French people have received the first dose and because it is unclear whether the vaccine prevents transmission.

Meanwhile, Germany also advised not to loosen many of the restrictions. To date, the 27 EU member states have only agreed on mutual recognition of COVID-19 test results. The introduction of vaccine passports remains a story of the future, especially as more new coronavirus variants are discovered. The European Commission says it will not be rushed into a decision on passports while only 3 per cent of Europeans have been vaccinated.

The US also expressed caution with vaccine passports as President Biden asked government agencies to evaluate the feasibility of linking coronavirus vaccine certificates with other vaccination documents and producing digital versions of them.

Possible resurrection?

Although controversies abound, governments and technology firms around the world are leaning towards using vaccine passports to recover the economy and revive the tourism and entertainment industries.

Some companies and tech groups like IBM have also started to develop smartphone applications where users can upload detailed information about their tests and vaccinations to create a digital health certificate or use QR codes to display their vaccination status to the authorities without disclosing sensitive information.

Zurab Pololikashvili, secretary general of the UN’s World Tourism Organization, has called on the world to apply vaccine passports on a larger scale as an indispensable element for the tourism industry’s recovery.

“One key element vital for the restart of tourism is consistency and harmonisation of rules and protocols regarding international travel,” he said in an email. “Evidence of vaccination, for example, through the coordinated introduction of what may be called ‘health passports’ can offer this. They can also eliminate the need for quarantine on arrival, a policy which is also standing in the way of the return of international tourism.”

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) supports vaccine passports and also piloted their digital application called IATA Travel Pass piloted on Singapore Airlines flights late last year. IATA said it could expand the programme to other destinations if the pilot is successful.

Singapore Airlines also plans to incorporate health certifications into a mobile app in mid-2021. Passengers who have tested for COVID-19 at clinics designated by the airline will be issued an electronic certificate with a QR code or a paper health certificate.

Some airlines, like Qantas, said they would make vaccine documentation mandatory on all flights while Gulf Air, Emirates, and Etihad will test a travel pass designed by the IATA.

In Vietnam, the first batch of vaccines was imported a few days ago as the first happy signal for reopening. Once the country is truly safe from the pandemic, ministries and departments will study to issue a passport similar to the vaccine passports.

However, tourism expert Truong Nam Thang, a member of tourism research projects of the Tourism Advisory Board and the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, said that by December, the nation will temporarily achieve herd immunity in key economic and tourism cities. By June 2022, Vietnam hopes to reach herd immunity across the country.

Thus, it will not be until the end of the second quarter of 2022 that Vietnam can normalise international trade as well as gradually restore tourism and international travel.

By Thai Anh

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