Regulations

Europe’s drug regulator on Wednesday found a possible link between AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine and rare blood clotting issues in adults who had received the shot and said it had taken into consideration all available evidence.

“One plausible explanation for the combination of blood clots and low blood platelets is an immune response, leading to a condition similar to one seen sometimes in patients treated with heparin,” the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said.

The findings come as a major hurdle in the global fight against the pandemic and a shift in the stance of the regulator, which had last week backed the vaccine and said there was no increased risk of blood clots in general from the shot.

It is also a blow to AstraZeneca, which was a frontrunner in the race for making an effective vaccine against COVID-19 ever since it began working with the University of Oxford.

The EMA’s safety committee, which was assessing the vaccine, has requested for more studies and changes to the current ones to get more information.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc

The local media, including VietNamNet, has reported problems related to the regulations on the use of training certificates for public employees, especially teachers of public training institutions, in promotion exams and appointment to professional titles of public employees.

On March 19, Minister and Chairman of the Government Office Mai Tien Dung signed a document to the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Education and Training, which ordered the two ministries to submit reports on the issues to the Prime Minister.

Accordingly, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc requested to consider amending and supplementing Decree 101/2017 of the Government on training and retraining of cadres, civil servants and public employees and other relevant regulations.

The Prime Minister instructed the Ministry of Home Affairs to coordinate with related agencies to review and report in detail about types of certificates for public employees. The Ministry was asked to state clearly what types of certificates that public employees must have to be promoted to professional titles and which certificates are for professional training, and classify compulsory and non-mandatory certificates in the management of public employees.

The Prime Minister also requested the Ministry of Education and Training to report in detail the similar content for the professional titles of teachers of public education institutions at all levels. The Ministry of Education and Training was asked to propose a plan to amend and supplement relevant regulations.

Related ministries were asked to propose specific plans and report the issues to the Prime Minister in March.

Thu Hang

Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chief Justice of the Supreme People’s Court Nguyen Hoa Binh and Minister-Chairman of the Government Office Mai Tien Dung presidedover the ceremony.

Using this regulation, the Government Office and the Supreme People’s Court will coordinate in the building of e-Government, e-Courts as well as administrative procedure reform. In particular, the two sides will support and closely coordinate in the building and completion of the institution to create a full legal environment for the implementation of E-Courts;consulting and sharing experiences in the process of developing projects on information technology application, e-Government development and E-Courts.

The Government Office will advise onand support the application of information technology in the administration and management of records, documents and the implementation of work on the electronic environment of the court system,connecting with the national text communication axis to serve the sending and receipt of electronic documents within the court system and with state administrative agencies at all levels.

The signing of the coordination regulation marks a milestone inclose coordination between the reform and building of e-Government in state administrative agencies with administrative and judicial reform work, building e-Courts of judicial agencies, creating synergy, enhancing effectiveness and efficiency in performing the assigned tasks of both agencies; creating a basis for in-depth, substantive and effective coordination between the two agencies.

This is also the basis for the Government Office to improve the quality of advice and assistance to the Government and Prime Minister in directing and administering administrative reform work, building e-Government and the digital government, economy and society.

Minister Mai Tien Dung suggested the Government Office and the Supreme People’s Court cooperate to continue to expand sending and receiving electronic documents on the national text communication axis to all agencies of the Supreme People’s Court, and between the agencies of Supreme People’s Court and state administrative agencies at all levels; enhancing the application of information technology in the administration andmanagement of records, documents, and handling work acrossthe electronic environment of the Supreme People’s Court system.

The two sides were urged to complete the ecosystem to serve people and businesses in the electronic environment through promoting the online public service provision of the court sector on the National Public Service Portal, creating a useful foundation for e-businesses and e-citizens – one of the most important tasks in the successful implementation of national digital transformation.