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Safety goes first in vaccination: Health Minister

June 18, 2021 by en.vietnamplus.vn

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Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Health always takes safety first when it comes to vaccination against not only COVID-19 but also other diseases, Minister Nguyen Thanh Long told the press on June 17. nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive , the biggest in the nation’s history, Long said it will be conducted in all localities with the deployment of mobile vaccination stations and application of information technology, and see the participation of all ministries and sectors.

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Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long (Photo: VNA)

He said the ministry has made a report to the Politburo and Government on the procurement of 150 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines and on the conduction of the upcoming large-scale vaccination.

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Laos has yet to apply “vaccine passport”: Health Ministry

June 18, 2021 by en.vietnamplus.vn

A young man receives a COVID-19 vaccine jab at a hospital in Vientiane (Photo: VNA)

Vientiane (VNA) – All people entering Laos, even those who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, still have to follow preventive measures and quarantine for 14 days, announced the country’s Ministry of Health.

Director General of the Department of Hygiene and Health Promotion under the Lao Ministry of Health , Phonepaseuth Ounaphom, said that as the World Health Organisation (WHO) has not given any recommendations on reducing quarantine time, the country will continue to apply WHO’s current guidelines.

It means that Laos has not considered the implementation of the “vaccine passport”.

Meanwhile, people having received two COVID-19 vaccine shots in the country for at least one month are allowed to travel from Vientiane capital to other localities without a two-week quarantine.

According to the Health Ministry, Laos reported 13 new COVID-19 cases on June 18, including seven domestic ones detected in the capital city.

The national count reached 2,047, with three fatalities./.

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Ninh Thuan boosts education, health service quality

June 19, 2021 by ven.vn

Change in education quality

According to a representative of the Ninh Thuan Department of Education and Training, the quality of education in the province has undergone profound change, with 99.9 percent of children completing primary school and 99.5 graduating from secondary school. The rate of high school students passing university and college entrance exams is also increasing annually. Special emphasis has been placed on vocational education and career orientation after secondary school, improving the training quality of highly skilled human resources.

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Educational facilities have been improved

The education and training sector has updated and upgraded training programs in line with the requirements of the labor market, associating vocational training with the demand of business. Some professional organizations have provided internships to improve professional skills based on the industrial style at enterprises inside and outside of the province.

Local education and training has also benefitted from private sector sponsorship with funding of hundreds of billions of dong to build school facilities. The non-public education model from preschool to high school has also contributed to building a national standard school system, meeting the learning needs of students, reducing the pressure on public schools, and improving the quality of teaching and learning towards international integration.

Improving health services

In addition to education, Ninh Thuan’s health sector has made significant progress, focusing on solutions to improve the capacity and quality of examinations and treatment at medical facilities. It has also invested in facilities, medical equipment, application and transfer of specialized and new techniques, and adopted policies to attract and train human resources, especially specialized doctors.

Intervention in pediatric heart disease

Doctor Le Vu Chuong, Director of Ninh Thuan Department of Health, reported that the bed occupancy rate of provincial hospitals is on average over 90 percent, topping 100 percent at the Provincial General Hospital and Hospital of Traditional Medicine.

In particular, through Project 1816, the Provincial General Hospital has coordinated with centrally-governed hospitals to apply more than 300 techniques in examination and treatment. It has also been approved by the Department of Health to use an additional 3,185 lists of techniques, raising the total number of techniques assigned by the Ministry of Health to 57.8 percent.

Doctors in the province have mastered difficult techniques of interventional cardiology; treatment of liver cancer using the TOCE method and RFA electrocautery treatment; knee and hip replacement surgery; treatment of cerebral stroke; Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP); laparoscopic surgery for colon cancer; urological endoscopic techniques; HDF continuous dialysis technique; invasive arterial blood pressure measurement in neonates, and more.

In addition to improving the quality of examination and treatment, hospitals have been effectively implementing innovation and patient satisfaction goals. Quality testing has rated nine of 11 provincial hospitals as being on a good level, no hospitals were rated poor, and patient satisfaction with service quality has improved significantly to 84.4 percent.

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121 new cases of COVID-19 added to national tally

June 18, 2021 by en.vietnamplus.vn

Samples are under the COVID-19 screening process. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam confirmed 121 new cases of COVID-19, including two imported ones, in the past six hours to 12 pm on June 18, according to the Health Ministry .

Among the 119 domestic infections, 59 were found in Ho Chi Minh City, 36 in Bac Giang, 12 in Binh Duong, ten in Bac Ninh, one in Hoa Binh, and one in Lao Cai. Of them, 110 were detected in quarantine or blocked areas.

So far, the country documented 10,755 domestic and 1,669 imported infections. The number of cases since the fourth wave of the pandemic began on April 27 was 9,185.

The ministry said as many as 4,653 patients have been given the all-clear so far, while the death toll remained at 61.

Among active patients under treatment at hospitals, 407 have tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 once, 114 twice and 65 thrice.

Twenty-five provinces have gone through 14 days without detecting new cases. Since April 29, over 5.14 million people across the country have received COVID-19 testing.

More than 1.99 million vaccine doses have been injected to date, with 89,833 people fully vaccinated with two shots./.

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Additional 19 local COVID-19 infections recorded

May 12, 2021 by en.vietnamplus.vn

COVID-19 testing in Vietnam (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Twenty-two new cases of COVID-19 , including 19 local infections and three imported, were recorded in Vietnam in the last six hours to 12:00 on May 12, according to the Ministry of Health.

The imported cases were quarantined upon their arrival in the south central coastal province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau.

All of the locally infected patients are found in quarantined sites or sealed-off areas, and there are no new hotbeds .

The COVID-19 tally in Vietnam stood at 3,593 as of 12:00 on May 12.

So far, up to 2,618 patients have recovered. Among those still under treatment, 25 have tested negative for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 once, 17 others twice, and 25 thrice, said the ministry’s Department of Medical Service Administration.

There are 67,877 people under quarantine nationwide at present./.

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COVID-19: 31 new cases recorded on May 13 afternoon

May 13, 2021 by en.vietnamplus.vn

Health workers conduct COVID-19 testing for staff at Samsung Electronics Vietnam (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Thirty one COVID-19 cases, including 19 domestic infections, were recorded over the last six hours to 6:00pm on May 13, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).

The new patients included 10 in Da Nang, 4 in Bac Ninh, 3 in Vinh Phuc and 1 each in Hanoi and Bac Giang, all in quarantine facilities or sealed off areas . The new cases brought the total number of local infections announced on May 13 to 73.

The national count rose to 3,710, with 2,253 domestic and 1,457 imported cases.

An additional 21 patients were given the all-clear, raising the total number of recoveries to 2,657. The death toll remains at 35.

Meanwhile, 77,648 people are being quarantined nationwide.

To stay safe from COVID-19, people are urged to strictly follow the MoH’s 5K health message: khau trang (facemask), khu khuan (disinfection), khoang cach (distance), khong tu tap (no gathering), and khai bao y te (health declaration)./.

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