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The Health Ministry announced Friday that she died of pneumonia caused by Covid-19, complications of respiratory failure, septic shock on a patient with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), hypertension, and diabetes.

A resident in Chau Thanh District in An Giang, she had suffered pulmonary TB and type 2 diabetes for more than 10 years.

She returned to Vietnam from Cambodia on June 2 at the Moc Bai International Border Gate in southern Tay Ninh Province and was sent to centralized quaratine camps as per Covid-19 prevention protocols.

Later she tested postive for the new coronavirus while in quarantine and was treated at a healthcare facility in Tay Ninh.

Her conditions developed worse and she had to rely on a ventilator on June 11.

She died on June 14.

Hers is the 27th death recorded in the fourth wave of Covid-19 in Vietnam, which broke out on April 27, and the nation’s 62nd coronavirus fatality.

For the ongoing wave, 9,114 infections have been recorded in 41 localities of Vietnam.

The latest forecast has recently been released as part of the USDA’s May 2021 Report about the Global Rice Outlook for 2022.

The report details that the global rice output in the 2021 – 2022 crop will hit a record high of 505.4 million tonnes of milled rice, an increase of 1.9 million tonnes compared to the 2020 – 2021 crop.

Most notably, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Cambodia, China, the Ivory Coast, the Republic of Korea, Paraguay, Taiwan (China), and Thailand will all witness rises in their respective rice output.

In contrast, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Iraq, Madagascar, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, the US, and Vietnam are all projected to record a lower output.

After two consecutive years of maintaining its position as the world’s second largest rice exporter, Vietnam will rank third in terms of global rice exports next year, behind India and Thailand.

In line with the rice industry restructuring scheme until 2025, Vietnam is aiming to export approximately five million tonnes annually.

This decrease is attributed to the local rice industry’s shifting from quantity to quality, with a specific focus on improving the value and brand of Vietnamese rice among in international market.

Rice exporters have gradually begun to shift their proportion of white rice varieties to high-quality fragrant rice, while simultaneously focusing on high-end markets such as the EU, the US, and Japan.

Nguyen Van Thanh, director of Phuoc Thanh IV Trading and Production Co., Ltd, says his firm has recently turned to exporting fragrant and high-quality rice, adding that along with traditional Asian markets, the company has is seeking to reap benefits from the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement – EU (EVFTA).

Similarly, Pham Thai Binh, general director of Trung An High-Tech Agriculture Joint Stock Company, reveals that since the beginning of the year, the firm has continuously won bids to ship rice to Asian countries and the EU.

Binh added that Trung An rice is now being traded at the relatively high level of over US$578.5 per tonne.

Source: VOV

A 71-year-old woman with Covid-19 has died, becoming the country’s 62nd Covid-19 death.

According to the Ministry of Health, the patient is from Chau Thanh District in the southern province of An Giang. The patient had faced the underlying medical conditions of tuberculosis, high blood pressure, and diabetes for 10 years.

On June 2, the patient entered Vietnam through Moc Bai International Border Gate along with her daughter and granddaughter. After that, she tested positive for Covid-19 and was treated at Ben Cau Medical Centre. Her condition quickly got worse with the respiratory failure.

On June 11, she was given a ventilator and more intensive treatment methods. However, the respiratory failure continued worsening, causing her respond poorly to the treatment. She died on June 14.

This is Vietnam’s 27th Covid-19-related death in the country’s fourth Covid-19 wave which started from late April this year.

An additional 62 more Covid-19 infections has been recorded in Vietnam as of Friday evening, raising the daily counts to 264 and the total number of patients in the country to 12,414, the Ministry of Health has reported.

According to the ministry’s report, 59 of the newly-confirmed patients are locally-transmitted cases most of whom were detected in quarantine sites or areas under lockdown in some localities including 19 in Bac Giang, 30 in Ho Chi Minh City, six in Bac Ninh, three in Ha Tinh, and one in Hoa Binh.

The 19 cases in Bac Giang were recorded at some local industrial parks which have reported a large outbreak over the last few weeks.

As of Friday evening, 9,172 locally-transmitted cases have been reported since the new outbreak occurred in the country on April 27, including 5,083 in the virus epicentre of Bac Giang. The outbreak has so far spread to 40 cities and provinces nationwide.

Three imported patients are all Vietnamese people who recently returned from Cambodia and Japan. They were sent to quarantine areas in Tay Ninh and Quang Nam provinces upon arrival and are now being treated at local hospitals.

With these new infection cases, the number of Covid-19 patients in Vietnam has increased to 12,414 including 10,742 locally-transmitted cases.

As of 6 pm on June 18, a total of 4,733 Covid-19 patients had recovered and been discharged from hospital.

So far there have been 62 deaths, most of them being the elderly with serious underlying diseases.

At present, over 170,000 people who had close contact with Covid-19 patients or returned from virus-hit areas are being monitored at hospitals, quarantine facilities, and at home.

On June 17, an additional 200,263 people were given Covid-19 vaccine in Vietnam, raising the total number of vaccine doses used in the country to 1,991,059. The number of people who have received two doses has risen to 89,833.