The prospect of restarting summer tourism this year, and once again reviving the flagging tourism industry, has largely been based on the immense efforts to have successfully contained the coronavirus in Vietnam. Now many airlines and railways are getting ready to launch exciting summer packages to once again welcome a flow of travellers.
This morning, a mission team led by Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training Le Hong Son visited schools as teachers today welcomed back over 1.7 million preschoolers and high schoolers returning to schools for the first day after a long break due to Covid-19.
According to the results of the whole-genome sequence analysis of SARS-CoV-2, the Japanese expert, who died in a Somerset West Point Hotel at 2 Tay Ho Street in Hanoi’s Tay Ho District recently, and a cluster of Covid-19 in the capital were identified as being infected with a new 20C-coronavirus variant.
Ngo Minh Chau, Deputy Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee proposed to exchange information of illegal immigrants through trails along borderlines with neighboring countries.
Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Vice Chairman Duong Anh Duc has just sent a dispatch to the heads of departments, divisions, and industries, the Chairman of the People's Committee of Thu Duc City, and districts on strengthening measures to prevent the Covid-19 pandemic in the current period.
Vietnam has no new COVID-19 cases to report in the past 12 hours to 6 a.m. of February 20, while the number of recoveries is 1,627, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
Sixty Vietnamese people have signed up for coronavirus vaccine trials in the first phase, said Nguyen Ngo Quang, Deputy Director of the Department of Science, Technology and Training under the Ministry of Health.
