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Athletes race at the Sepang International Circuit last year. Vietnamese racers will take part in this year tournament on March 8-10. — Photo zing.vnViet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Three Vietnamese athletes will take part in the FIM Asia Road Racing Championship (ARRC) 2019 which will begin with its first round on March 8-10 at the Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia. … [Read more...] about Honda Racing Vietnam to race at Asia Road Racing Championship 2019

Vietnam has implemented 10 forms of responses under the Law on Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases, including the establishment of the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control, implementing health declarations requirements, organizing testing and mobilizing resources for treatment. … [Read more...] about Vietnam PM declares Covid-19 a national epidemic

Tokyo (VNA) – Japanese medical equipment firm Metran plans to make 15,000 ventilators for Vietnam to help the country combat the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) which is ravaging the globe, according to Founder and Chairman Tran Ngoc Phuc. Metran has received orders of ventilators from many countries, including Japan, but the company’s capacity is limited so it is working with the world’s leading consulting firms to legally share design specifications of its ventilators to other producers to boost production capacity, said Phuc, a Vietnamese – Japanese. Metran will transfer its patent to a partner in Vietnam to produce about 15,000 ventilators for the Vietnamese market. According to the founder, his company is confronting shortage of workers and components for the production and is working to fix the problems. Once the company resolves issues relating to insufficient supply of components, it is capable of making 5,000 – 10,000 ventilators per … [Read more...] about Japanese firm to make 15,000 ventilators to help Vietnam’s COVID-19 response

According to the announcement, since Vietnam reported the first coronavirus case on January 23, various solutions and measures to cope with the epidemic have been carried out following the Law on Infectious Diseases including setting up a steering committee for the disease, health quarantine, monitoring affected areas, mobilising resources in society to fight the epidemic, international co-operation, and setting up makeshift hospitals. Covid-19 was defined among Group A infectious diseases according to Vietnamese disease classification, pointing to a number of significantly dangerous diseases that can spread rapidly and have high mortality rates including avian influenza virus A (H5N1), Polio and Ebola. On Tuesday, PM Phuc issued a directive which orders social distancing measures to be applied for 15 days in an attempt to curb the virus spread. … [Read more...] about Vietnam declares Covid-19 nationwide epidemic

The Ministry of Transport has requested all local and foreign airlines to halt their international flights to the country for two weeks in the context of the escalating Covid-19 epidemic. Under an urgent instruction signed by Deputy Minister Le Anh Tuan on Tuesday, the suspension takes effect between April 1 and April 15. The change however does not apply to people who enter Vietnam for diplomatic and official purposes, foreign guests attending important external activities, experts, business managers, highly skilled workers, and special cases agreed by the National Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control. The ministry ordered airlines to reduce domestic airlines from March 30 to April 15. Each airline will provide only one flight per day on Hanoi-HCM City/ Danang/Phu Quoc and HCM City-Danang/Phu Quoc routes. Airlines have to halt all remaining flights from and to HCM City. At present, national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines are only operating eight flights per … [Read more...] about International flights to Vietnam suspended amid Covid-19 spread