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Three imported cases of COVID-19 reported in past 12 hours

April 14, 2021 by en.vietnamplus.vn

990 people are vaccinated against the coronavirus on April 13, raising the total number of vaccinated people in the country to 60,139. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Three imported cases of COVID-19 were reported in the past 12 hours to 6am April 14, raising the national count to 2,717, according to the Ministry of Health .

All of the new cases are Vietnamese who were sent to quarantine in the central province of Khanh Hoa right upon their arrival.

Meanwhile, 2,445 COVID-19 patients have been given the all-clear, and the death toll remains at 35.

Among patients still under treatment, 16 have tested negative for the novel coronavirus once, 18 twice and 18 thrice.

A total 38,743 people who had close contact with COVID-19 patients or arrived from pandemic-hit areas are being quarantined across the country.

The ministry said 990 people were vaccinated against the coronavirus on April 13, raising the total number of vaccinated people in the country to 60,139, mainly frontline medical workers, and members of community-based anti- COVID-19 groups and Steering Committees for COVID-19 Prevention and Control in 19 cities and provinces.

Many localities are promptly drawing up detailed plans for the second stage of the inoculation drive .

The Health Ministry continues to urge all people to follow the 5K motto – Khau trang (wearing facemask) – Khu khuan (disinfecting) – Khoang cach (keeping distance) – Khong tu tap (no gathering) – Khai bao y te (making medical declaration), in order to live safely amid the pandemic./.

Hai Duong sees rise in domestic investment

April 14, 2021 by en.qdnd.vn

The capital was poured into 25 new and 11 underway projects, including the Hanoi-Hai Duong Hospital project worth over 1.27 trillion VND, and Quang Thanh Trade Centre with 703 billion VND.

As of the end of March, Hai Duong had issued business licences to 363 new firms, down 32.5 percent year on year, raising the total number of local businesses to 16,056. The province saw the dissolution of 66 firms in the period.

Meanwhile, foreign investment was estimated at 91.5 million USD, equivalent to 80 percent of that in the same period last year. Currently, Hai Duong has 485 valid foreign-invested projects worth 9.1 billion USD.

In the future, the province will focus on enhancing the quality of planning and construction projects, while exploring difficulties facing enterprises for timely solutions, and strengthening trade promotion.

Hai Duong will also call for more projects with new, green and energy-saving technologies as well as projects in support industries, while working with banks to provide credit to support COVID-19-hit businesses and help local firms recover.

Source: VNA

Creating basis to promote development of domestic market

April 14, 2021 by en.nhandan.org.vn

These included programmes to build scenarios and plans to promote the consumption of agricultural and aquatic products in localities facing difficulties in the export and domestic consumption of their products.

Under the programme, the reserve capacity of frozen and cold storage warehouses was also reviewed towards the preparation of storage plans when necessary. In addition, related State management units have actively connected a series of distribution enterprises with localities to promote the consumption of large-yield and harvested agricultural products facing market difficulties.

For example, right after Hai Duong Province implemented social distancing from 0:00 on February 16, the Ministry of Industry and Trade directly worked with major distribution systems such as Central Group (BigCand Go! supermarket chain), Vincommerce (Vinmart and Vinmart + chain), BRG Retail (BRG Mart supermarket chain), MM Mega Market chain and others to purchase agricultural products from farmers, cooperatives andenterprises in the province.

As a result, although the COVID-19 pandemic, with its new variants, has developed complicatedly and spreadrapidly on a large scale in many localities, the domestic market was still guaranteed and has gradually recovered.

Total retail sales of consumer goods and services in March increased by 9.2% over the same period last year, showing the recovery of consumers’ demand. In the first quarter of this year, total retail sales of consumer goods and services also rose by 5.1% over the same period in 2020.

The Prime Minister issued Decision No. 386/QĐ-TTg on March 17 to approve the Project on Developing Domestic Market associated with the “Vietnamese people prioritise using Vietnamese goods” campaign in the 2021-2025period.

The project outlined four main groups of tasks to be performed, including boosting information and communication; developing a sustainable distribution system with priority given to Vietnamese goods; improving competitiveness for Vietnamese products and Vietnamese enterprises; and strengthening the inspectionof the market and protection of consumers.

This provides an important basis for State management agencies to continue the implementation of activities to promote domestic market development through various programmes such as “Proud of Vietnamese goods” and “The quintessence of Vietnamese goods”, contributing to promoting production, trading and consumption of Vietnamese goods

At the same time, such programmes will be combined with annual action programmes of ministries, sectors andlocalities to create a spillover effect nationwide.