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HCM City (VNS/VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City is set to offer a second financial relief package for businesses and workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to its Department of Labour , Invalids and Social Affairs.

Tourism, transport and small and medium-sized businesses, teachers, laid-off workers, and informal sector workers will be beneficiaries of payments that will be made between this month and December.

Le Minh Tan, director of the department, said it was working with authorities in the city’s 21 districts and Thu Duc city to compile a list of affected businesses and laid-off and informal sector workers who are eligible to receive the payments.

The department proposes to pay workers who were laid off for at least a month due to the pandemic monthly relief payments of 1.8 million VND (78 USD), Tan said.

The department allocated 611 billion VND (26.5 million USD) and 181 billion VND (7.85 million USD) for businesses and informal sector workers in the first relief package last year.

More than 20,500 lottery ticket sellers received more than 20 billion VND (869,400 USD).

Free food, essential goods

More than 600 workers placed under quarantine at the VINA Kitchen Ware JSC at the Tan Binh Industrial Park in HCM City on June 1 received essential goods and food for free from the Trade Union of the industrial parks and export processing zones.

They are quarantined after coming into close contact with COVID-19 patients.

Huynh Van Tuan, Chairman of the Trade Union, said the workers got minimum wages and other support in quarantine.

Infected workers would get financial assistance of up to 3 million VND (130 USD) and others would get 1.5 million VND (65 USD), he said.

A free rice dispensing machine for poor people and those out of work has been installed at a kindergarten in district 12’s Thanh Loc ward, which is under lockdown.

Disadvantaged people could get free rice and essential goods from a store set up next to the machine, Nguyen Duc Vinh, Secretary of the Thanh Loc Ward Youth Union, said.

Some three to four tonnes of vegetables transported from Lam Dong province are delivered to people quarantined in the Thanh Loc ward every three or four days./.

VNA

HCM City (VNA) – The People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City on June 17 announced that the second hearing for the case of law violation involving the land lot at 57 Cao Thang street being exchanged for the land lot at 185 Hai Ba Trung street in the city will take place from July 13-19.

The hearing, which was scheduled for May 26 to June 2, was delayed to June 22 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, social distancing measures are being applied in HCM City until the end of June, forcing the trial to be suspended again.

In this case, Duong Thi Bach Diep, Director of the Diep Bach Duong Real Estate Co., is among the key defendants in the trial, and is charged with “fraud, appropriation of assets”.

Nine other defendants in the case are charged with “lack of responsibility, causing serious consequences,” including former Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Tai; former Deputy Director of the municipal Department of Finance Tran Nam Trang; former Director of the HCM City Light Music Centre Vy Nhat Tao; former Director of the municipal Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Thanh Rum; former Deputy Director of the department Le Ton Thanh; former deputy heads of the municipal People’s Committee Office Huynh Kim Phat and Le Van Thanh; former Director of the municipal Department of Natural Resources and Environment Dao Anh Kiet; and former Deputy Director of the department Nguyen Thanh Nhan.

According to the indictment, the 185 Hai Ba Trung land lot, owned by the State, was the headquarters of the Light Music Centre under the municipal Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism. In 2007, the centre’s then director Vy Nhat Tao contacted Diep to cooperate in upgrading the headquarters.

Diep then proposed exchanging her land lot at 57 Cao Thang street for the 185 Hai Ba Trung land lot, as she owned the land lot at 179 Hai Ba Trung street and wanted to build a five-star hotel complex there.

The property swap was approved by Nguyen Thanh Tai. During the process, Diep used the land use right certificate for 57 Cao Thang as collateral to borrow money from Agribank – HCM City branch.

After being granted a land right use certificate for the property at 185 Hai Ba Trung, however, Diep did not use it to replace the collateral at Agribank to hand over the property at 57 Cao Thang to the Light Music Centre as committed. Instead, Diep used the 185 Hai Ba Trung land lot as collateral for a loan at Southern Bank (now Sacombank) and so far was not able to repay the debt.

The indictment stated that Tai permitted the property swap while he was not responsible for handling and reorganising State assets.

On March 5, 2010, Tai signed a document sent to relevant units approving the exchange of the two land lots, without any request to check and clarify the legal status of the 57 Cao Thang land lot, causing losses of State assets .

The other defendants showed a lack of responsibility in carrying out their duty, thus facilitating Diep’s fraud and appropriation of assets.

The People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City on March 26 decided to return dossiers of the case for further investigations as new evidence and details were found./.

VNA

A health official said the healthcare system is capable of coping with the rising infections.

Vietnam has built a scenario of having 50,000 people infected with SARS-CoV-2 as the fresh outbreak continues sweeping 41 out of 63 cities and provinces.

Vietnam’s Covid-19 infections. Source: MoH. Chart: Minh Vu

The current health system for Covid-19 treatment works well and it would be capable to treat more, said Associate Prof. Luong Ngoc Khue, head of the Ministry of Health (MoH)’s Administration of Medical Examination and Treatment.

“To that extent, we totally bring the pandemic under control,” he told Zing .

Before, Vietnam built a 30,000-infection scenario and has got ready for the situation by preparing both facilities and manpower.

Khue said that the ratio of Covid-19 patient with mild symptoms in Vietnam is about 65-70% [of 30,000 cases]. It means that around 7,000-8,000 patients with moderate symptoms need health supervision and treatment like high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) therapy. Roughly 5-7% of the total or 1,500 patients classified severe need intensive care like ventilator support, central oxygen supply, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).

The health sector has also built makeshift hospitals which are equipped with intensive care units (ICU) in many localities nationwide to get ready for the treatment of higher infections. In addition, the MoH is making efforts to improve emergency and resuscitation capacity at grassroots levels to offer better treatment of Covid-19 patients, he said.

So far, Vietnam has recorded 12,414 confirmed cases, including 9,173 detected in the ongoing outbreak that flared up in late April.

Five localities having the highest infections are Bac Giang (5,083), Bac Ninh (1,470), Ho Chi Minh City (1,346), Hanoi (464), and Danang (158).

Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Truong Son. Photo: Duy Hieu/Zing

At present, Ho Chi Minh City is facing the complication as some transmission sources that remain unknown and the community transmission likely happens in the time to come. Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Truong Son who leads a Standing Task Force in the city said if the infections approach 5,000, the city will build a makeshift hospital in Phu Tho Indoor Sports Stadium.

“The current options for isolation and treatment have been made and there are no sudden changes or changes in plans. If Ho Chi Minh City has more than 1,000 cases but is still under control, there is no need for city-wide social distancing,” Son told local media.

The city is on the two-week social distancing extension.

Regarding the inoculation, the National Standing Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control on June 18 asked the MoH to speed up the vaccine purchase, vaccination, and domestic production.

Vietnam plans to offer both free and paid vaccination. The list of priority groups include health workers and frontline forces; Vietnamese diplomats abroad; customs and state officials working in immigration service; armed forces; essential service providers; teachers and state employees of frequent contact with others; people with underlying diseases and those aged above 65; people in pandemic-hit areas; the poor and beneficiaries; and people in overseas missions.

The country targets to reach the herd immunity by the year-end, according to the MoH.