Conversations on Vietnam Development
Corrs Chambers Westgarth | 27 August 2020
Investor-state disputes arising from COVID-19: balancing public health and corporate wealth
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments globally are engaging in a difficult balancing act of protecting public health, mitigating economic damage and avoiding interference with private rights.
Even during a global pandemic, however, States are likely to be challenged for implementing measures that interfere with an investor’s private rights. Governments the world over have introduced COVID-19 prevention measures such as hard border closures, city and regional lockdowns, suspension of construction, production and mining, nationalisation of private industries and import and export restrictions.
Tiếp tục đọc “Investor-state disputes arising from COVID-19: balancing public health and corporate wealth”August 19, 2020
Throughout modern history, pandemics—like wars, earthquakes, catastrophic fires, and other sweeping calamities—have fundamentally shaped and transformed cities. In the early 20th century, the Spanish Flu bore witness to the dangers of concentrating people in dense urban housing. In its aftermath, city governments in Europe and the Americas embraced new urban planning strategies to make cities healthier and more livable. Their efforts focused on creating more parkland and giving cities green “lungs.” More recently, the 1994 outbreak of pneumonic plague in Surat, India, led to the establishment of a citywide system to monitor public health, while the 2003 SARS outbreak prompted Singapore to improve its medical infrastructure. Tiếp tục đọc “Covid Lays Bare the Flaws in Asia’s Booming Megacities”
Wednesday, August 19, 2020, 22:04 GMT+7 tuoitrenews
Vietnam recorded four new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, with its total nearing 1,000, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
The four patients include two in Da Nang, one in neighboring Quang Nam Province, and one in northern Hai Duong Province.
Patient No. 990 is a 25-year-old medical worker at Da Nang Family Hospital.
Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam’s COVID-19 count approaches 1,000”vietnamnet | 17/08/2020 12:50 GMT+7
“The death penalty could be considered for such act in accordance with the Penal Code. In this very urgent situation, when the whole country is trying hard to fight Covid-19, it is necessary to strictly punish such acts for deterrence.” |
| Chinese people who illegally entered Vietnam are detected by traffic police on Noi Bai – Lao Cai expressway. (Photo: Lao Cai newspaper) |
This is the opinion of National Assembly (NA) deputy Bui Van Phuong, member of the NA Economic Committee, vice head of the NA delegation of Ninh Binh province in response to the proposal of the HCM City Center for Disease Control (HCDC): “It is necessary to impose heavy sanctions against people who illegally enter the country, to consider imposing special criminal penalties on those who give a hand to illegal entry.”
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Vietnam has confirmed 29 new coronavirus cases and another fatality of the disease, all closely tied to Da Nang outbreak, the Ministry of Health said in its August 9 update at 18.00hrs.19 cases aged 7 to 85 were registered in Da Nang City, the epicenter of the outbreak. They include 8 people who had close contact with COVID-19 patients, 3 patients given treatment at Da Nang Hospital, three caregivers, a medical worker, a servant, along with three others.
Tiếp tục đọc “COVID-19: Vietnam reports 29 new cases, another fatality – Total 84 cases”Wednesday, August 05, 2020, 18:30 GMT+7 Tuoitre
Vietnam documented a total of 43 new cases of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Wednesday, including 42 local infections and one imported patient who was quarantined upon arrival, the second-largest single-day increase in cases since January.
Vietnam reported two new coronavirus patients on Wednesday morning, both registered in the central province of Quang Nam and traced to Da Nang, a neighboring city that is the country’s outbreak epicenter.
Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam reports second-largest daily hike in COVID-19 cases with 43 new patients – total 713 patients”By Reuters, Wire Service ContentAug. 3, 2020, at 1:21 a.m.
Vietnam Says Early August ‘Decisive’ in Containing Coronavirus
FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: A man wears a protective mask as he drives past a banner promoting prevention against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Hanoi, Vietnam July 31, 2020. REUTERS/Kham/File PhotoREUTERS
BY KHANH VU AND PHUONG Nguyen
HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam is in the midst of a “decisive” fight against the novel coronavirus, the prime minister said on Monday, with the focus on Danang city where infections have appeared in four factories with a combined workforce of about 3,700 people.
Vietnam, widely praised for its mitigation efforts since the coronavirus appeared in late January, is battling several new clusters of infection linked to Danang after going more than three months without detecting any domestic transmission.
Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam Says Early August ‘Decisive’ in Containing Coronavirus”
Dak Lak Province in Vietnam’s Centra Highlands has reinstated enhanced social distancing rules across its entire capital city of Buon Ma Thuot from Monday after three COVID-19 patients were documented there.
The enhanced social distancing regulations have to be practiced from 0:00 Monday until the end of August 16 in accordance with the prime minister’s directive No. 16 issued on March 31.
Accordingly, citizens are requested to stay home and only go out under absolutely necessary circumstances, and maintain a minimum distance of two meters in social interaction. Tiếp tục đọc “Central Highlands’ Buon Ma Thuot City enters social distancing as virus spreads in Vietnam”
03/08/2020 11:28 GMT+7 vietnamnet
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Sáng 3/8, PGS.TS Lương Ngọc Khuê, Cục trưởng Cục quản lý Khám, chữa bệnh, Phó trưởng Tiểu ban Điều trị cho biết, Việt Nam đang điều trị cho 242 bệnh nhân Covid-19 trên tổng số 621 ca mắc.
Tuy nhiên diễn biến dịch Covid-19 đợt mới có nhiều bệnh nhân nặng, trong đó có 13 bệnh nhân đang nguy kịch (10 bệnh phải can thiệp ECMO và thở máy; 3 trường hợp đang phải thở oxy) và 21 trường hợp khác tiên lượng nặng.
Tiếp tục đọc “13 ca Covid-19 nguy kịch và nặng, Bộ Y tế tiếp tục chi viện bác sĩ – Cả nước có 621 ca bệnh”03/08/2020 07:34 GMT+7 vietnamnet.vn
Chủ tịch Đà Nẵng: Thành phố đã tính tới phương án cách ly tại nhàBảy người trong một gia đình ở Quảng Nam mắc Covid-19Thủ tướng Nguyễn Xuân Phúc: Mỗi gia đình là một pháo đài chống dịch
Phát biểu kết luận, Thủ tướng đánh giá phần mềm Bluezone là vấn đề quan trọng nhưng vẫn còn mới mẻ với nước ta.
Trước diễn biến phức tạp của dịch bệnh, để nhanh chóng khoanh vùng dập dịch, Thủ tướng đề nghị người dân cài đặt ứng dụng Bluezone – ứng dụng hỗ trợ phát hiện truy vết nhanh những người có nguy cơ lây nhiễm. Thủ tướng giao Bộ TT&TT chủ trì, hướng dẫn phối hợp với Bộ Y tế, UBND các tỉnh thành triển khai nhanh nhất việc này.
Tiếp tục đọc “Thủ tướng đề nghị toàn dân cài đặt Bluezone để truy vết nhanh – Hướng dẫn sử dụng phần mềm Bluezone”31/07/2020 18:43 GMT+7 vietnamnet
Update: July, 31/2020 – 22:47|VNS
Đà Nẵng hospital where the second COVID-19-related death was reported. — VNA/VNS Photo Lê Lâm
HÀ NỘI — A second person has died in Việt Nam, with cause of death related to COVID-19.
He is the second person to die from a coronavirus related condition. Earlier on Friday a 70-year-old man suffered a heart attack during treatment for COVID-19.
On Friday, the Steering Committee reported 82 new cases, bringing the total number of positive patients to 546.
There are currently more than 53,000 quarantined at hospitals, health centres or isolated at home. — VNS
Update: July, 31/2020 – 19:34|
A bar on backpacker street Tạ Hiện, in downtown Hà Nội. — VNA/VNS Photo Danh Lam
HÀ NỘI — Starting August 1, all bars, karaoke venues and roadside stalls will have to close and large gatherings are banned in Hà Nội, the city’s authorities announced Friday morning, as the country battled a new wave of coronavirus after no local transmission cases for months.
Tiếp tục đọc “Hà Nội orders shutdown of bars, karaoke venues and roadside stalls starting August 1”By Ha An July 31, 2020 | 02:50 pm GMT+7 vnexpress
Singer Hoa Minzy. Photo courtesy of Hoa.
On July 28, the 25-year-old singer shared a section of text stating that Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam warns residents over Covid-19, urging them to stay at home, and limit going outside. “Next week is an important landmark, with the cases increasing from 75 to 100-500.”
Tiếp tục đọc “Pop singer fined for spreading fake Covid-19 news”
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