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The Health Ministry on Tuesday announced 249,149 new local Covid-19 cases, including more than 118,000 detected in the previous days. The three localities with the highest number of cases on Tuesday are Hanoi with 16,014 cases, and its neighboring province of Phu Tho with 5,920 and central Nghe An Province. …

The outlying Binh Tan District takes the lead in Ho Chi Minh City’s 2021 Public Administration Reform Index ranking thanks to its technology application. According to the list released Tuesday by the city’s Steering Committee for Administrative Reform, Binh Tan leads 21 districts and Thu Duc City with 94.27 points. …

Malaysia has recognized Vietnam’s Covid-19 vaccination certificate to boost tourism activities between the two countries, the Malaysian PM said while visiting Hanoi, Bernama reported. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said this is because Vietnam used vaccines approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) and had already recognized Malaysia’s …

China locked down an industrial city of nine million people overnight and reported more than 4,000 virus cases on Tuesday, as the nation’s “zero-Covid” strategy is confronted by an Omicron wave. Health authorities reported 4,770 new infections across the country, the bulk in the northeastern province of Jilin, as the …

The government has instructed the Airports Corporation of Vietnam to meet with the contractors building Long Thanh, the country’s biggest airport when completed, every day to discuss progress. Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The issued the instruction to make sure the construction remains on schedule. The ACV will be the …

Measures restricting or protecting abortion are flooding state legislatures ahead of a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that could upset the legal framework governing the practice for the past 50 years. A total of 1,844 provisions relating to sexual and reproductive health and rights have been introduced in 46 …

The vague symptoms of glaucoma are often overlooked, making this disease the second leading cause of blindness worldwide. Responding to World Glaucoma Week from March 6 to 12, with the sponsorship of Novartis Vietnam, Ba Ria – Vung Tau Eye Hospital, Saigon Eye Hospital System, and HelloBacsi organized an online …

Air quality in Vietnam improved in 2021 but still failed to meet the World Health Organization’s annual average PM2.5 concentration guidelines. The decline in the annual average PM2.5 concentration continued in 2021, falling to 24.7 μg/m3 after peaking in 2019 at 34.1, the World Air Quality Report by Swiss technology …

Vietnamese vaccine certificates were accepted by 17 countries as of March 17, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Monday. They are Australia, Belarus, Cambodia, Egypt, India, Japan, Maldives, New Zealand, Palestine, the Philippines, Saint Lucia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Turkey, the U.K. and the U.S., Le Thi Thu Hang, …

As the war in Ukraine highlights the perils of relying on Russian fossil fuels, France has been fast-tracking efforts to wean households off oil-fired heating, insulate their homes better and swap petrol and diesel cars for electric. Climate policy discussions in recent years have focused on phasing out coal – …