Clients, wearing protective face masks, queue up at a jewellery shop on God of Wealth Day, which falls on the 10th day of Lunar New Year, as Vietnamese hope buying gold would bring good luck, in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Sunday (Feb 21, 2021). - Reuters
HANOI, Feb 21 (Vietnam News/ANN): Cho Ray Hospital in HCM City dispatched its medical quick-response team and much needed equipment to Hai Duong Province, the epicentre of the latest Covid-19 outbreak, this weekend.
Quach Hien Trung, a laboratory technician, and Van Cap Quí, medical device engineer, will assist their counterparts.
It sent bio-chemistry and immunology laboratory equipment to Field Hospital No.2.
Medical personnel and equipment and funds for the fight against Covid-19 have also been sent to Hai Duong from other places like Hanoi, Hải Phòng and Quang Ninh Province.
Bamboo Airways has been providing free transport for medical equipment to Hai Duong since February 18, ferrying them to Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi.
It is also offering free round trips to medical workers going to the province and seeking to increase the frequency of flights to transport them and medical supplies.
As of Sunday morning(Feb 21), 632 Covid-19 cases were confirmed in Hai Duong, of whom 142 people have recovered, according to the Ministry of Health.
The Health Ministry also said on Sunday that there were no Covid-19 cases reported on Feb 21.
Vietnam recorded six new cases of Covid-19 on Saturday, which were all local transmissions, bringing its total tally to 2,368, according to the Ministry.
All the new infections were detected in the northern Hai Duong province, the country's largest Covid-19 hotspot at the moment. They were all in contact with previously confirmed patients, the ministry said.
As many as 1,627 patients have been given the all-clear, the ministry said, adding that nearly 125,600 people are being quarantined and monitored.
The ministry announced late Friday that the second phase of the clinical trial for Nanocovax, Vietnam's first indigenously developed Covid-19 vaccine candidate to enter the human trial stage, will start next week. The phase will be shortened to three months from six months as previously planned. - Vietnam News/ANN
