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Health authorities in Hanoi are preparing to send about 1,000 people to a quarantine area for Covid-19 prevention after they had close contact with some newly-found patients.

Vietnam is expected to receive 54 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine this month, according to Deputy Minister of Health Do Xuan Tuyen.

Phu Quoc City in the southern province of Kien Giang should complete second Covid-19 vaccine doses for all residents aged from 18 by the end of this month.

Authorities in HCM City have arranged transport for people wanting to leave HCM City to return to their hometowns.

More Covid-19 patients linked to the Vietnam-Germany Friendship Hospital in Hanoi have been found in the provinces of Ha Tinh, Hung Yen and Nam Dinh.

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ministry of Planning and Investment have launched the Vietnam Workforce for an Innovation and Start-up Ecosystem (WISE) project.

Many streets in HCM City have become crowded as the city started to ease social distancing rules which have been applied for over four months.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has cancelled the launch of its Epsilon 5 rocket, expected to carry Vietnam’s NanoDragon satellite and eight others into the outer space, on October 1, possibly due to technical problems.

Hanoi authorities have confirmed five new locally-infected Covid-19 patients in three districts with unknown sources of infection.

The central province of Quang Nam is making a plan in order to receive foreign visitors following the launch of a “vaccine passport” pilot model to be applied in Phu Quoc this November.

Western exit routes from HCM City were jammed on Thursday evening as thousands of people tried to leave the city.

The Hue Monuments Conservation Centre in the central province of Thua Thien – Hue has announced that it will re-open a number of tourist sites such as the Hue Imperial Citadel (Dai Noi), and Minh Mang, Tu Duc and

Russian carrier S7 Airlines is seeking approval from Russian and Vietnamese aviation authorities to launch an air route from Saint Petersburg City to Cam Ranh International Airport in the southern central province of Khanh Hoa.

Vietnam has confirmed up to 50,000 dengue fever cases so far this year, including 18 deaths, according to the Ministry of Health.

Vietnam confirmed an additional 7,940 Covid-19 infections on Thursday and 25,322 more patients recovered from the diseases the same day, according to the Ministry of Health.

A poor woman in the northern mountainous province of Bac Kan is calling for community support to save her son who is on the verge of death after a traffic accident.

Vietnam is home to about 75,000 second-generation victims of Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin and 35,000 others of third generation. Some localities even have victims in the fourth generation.

A building of Vietnam Germany Friendship Hospital in Hanoi has been locked down after a Covid-19 patient was discovered.

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue had an online working session with a high-ranking business delegation from the US-ASEAN Business Council (USABC) on September 30 at the request of the council’s President & CEO Ted Osius.