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.
Speaking at an online conference yesterday, Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong said people should keep vigilant in the fight against coronavirus.
The National Steering Board for Covi-19 Prevention and Control yesterday announced two more Covid-19 infections in the Central City of Da Nang and Quang Ngai Province, two community transmission.
