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Các nhóm biện pháp chống Covid-19 của Việt Nam
Thứ năm, 2/7/2020, 16:11 (GMT+7) VNExpress
Tiếp tục kiểm soát nhập cảnh, duy trì sẵn sàng các đội phản ứng nhanh… là các biện pháp phòng, chống dịch của Việt Nam để thực hiện mục tiêu kép.
Báo cáo cập nhật tình hình và các biện pháp phòng, chống dịch Covid-19 phục vụ hội nghị Chính phủ với các địa phương ngày 2/7, Bộ Y tế nhận định, Việt Nam đang phải đối mặt với làn sóng dịch thứ hai nếu xảy ra các ca lây nhiễm tại cộng đồng do bỏ sót các trường hợp nhập cảnh mắc bệnh, hoặc các bệnh nhân nhiễm bệnh nhưng không có triệu chứng trong cộng đồng.
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Vietnam extends temporary stay permits for foreigners as Covid-19 continues
Foreigners who entered Vietnam as of March 1 but still stuck due to Covid-19 pandemic’s travel restrictions can have theirs temporary stay permits extended one more month until July 31.
The move involves a one-month extension to the current policy, issued in mid-May that allowed foreigners entering the country on a tourist visa, e-visa or visa exemption since March 1 to have their stay automatically extended until June 30, vnexpress reported.
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| British tourist Gavin Wheeldon raises a thumbs-up with two medical staff in his room at Son Tay Military School quarantine camp in Hanoi. Photo: Gavin Wheeldon |
With the latest announcement made by the Immigration Department under the Ministry of Public Security on Tuesday, foreigners will be automatically given free permit extensions until July 31, meaning they could leave Vietnam within the time period without undergoing official procedures. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam extends temporary stay permits for foreigners as Covid-19 continues”
Covid-19 in Vietnam — the fear, the tears, the pride and the debt
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A friend elsewhere in Asia has an elderly parent in the UK. Chatting online she told me she’d read about this “slow-motion grief” affecting people as a result of the Covid-19 situation.
She told me she went on runs and cried through them. I admitted too I wasn’t sleeping. The smallest thing would make me emotional. I couldn’t think too far into the future because it all seemed too dark.
After Wuhan, things moved pretty quickly in Vietnam. Our little one’s nursery closed. Masks became compulsory. Track and trace was in full swing. An app was launched that offered various features. Most significantly, you could basically press a button and people in hazmat suits would appear.
Infected people were hospitalised. People who had come into contact with infected people were remotely quarantined. People who had come into contact with people who had come into contact with infected people were quarantined. People who had… well you get the picture.
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Leveraging Vietnam’s COVID-19 Success
Vietnam’s success in containing COVID-19 provides a chance to to use earned legitimacy as a springboard to reforms.
June 19, 2020
The Diplomat has removed paywall restrictions on our coverage of the COVID–19 crisis.
The political stability of many countries has been challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic. As authoritarian governments in countries like China and Vietnam strive to maintain the fruits of economic growth, questions about their legitimacy arise in the face of compounding crises. These governments use their authoritarian control to legitimize societal rules and regulations in service to a shared belief system that maintaining centralized control can not only mitigate chaos in the market but also secure public safety in a pandemic crisis. Tiếp tục đọc “Leveraging Vietnam’s COVID-19 Success”
Biên giới vẫn căng mình chống dịch
VNE – Thứ sáu, 19/6/2020, 09:38 (GMT+7)
LAI CHÂU – Đã hơn 60 ngày cả nước không ghi nhận ca bệnh lây lan trong cộng đồng, nhưng trên biên giới, những chiến sĩ biên phòng chưa thể về nhà.
The coronavirus will not be fatal for China’s Belt and Road Initiative but it will strike a heavy blow
Illustration: Craig Stephens
Suddenly, a highly infectious virus has become China’s most prominent export. What began on January 3, when China
44 cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, has become the Covid-19 global pandemic. Wuhan, the manufacturing centre that helped to power China’s flagship Belt and Road Initiative, has become the epicentre of a health crisis
many of those projects.
The corridors that facilitate the flow of goods can be conduits for pathogens and disease. As Covid-19 spreads, is the Belt and Road Initiative at risk of becoming an infection thoroughfare?
Covid-19 has given us the chance to build a low-carbon future
Lockdown won’t save the world from warming, but the pandemic is an opportunity to pursue a green economic recovery
- Christiana Figueres was head of the UN climate change convention that achieved the Paris agreement in 2015
The air is clean and fresh, fish have reappeared in urban waterways, birds are frequenting uncut gardens, wild mammals are meandering through cities and greenhouse gas emissions will likely drop by an unprecedented 8% this year. Nature has clearly benefited from several months of dramatically reduced economic activity. From a climate crisis perspective, this drop in emissions is astonishingly close to the 7.6% yearly reduction in emissions that scientists have advised will be necessary during the next decade. And yet none of this is cause for celebration.
How Vietnam managed to keep its coronavirus death toll at zero
By Nectar Gan, CNN Updated 0716 GMT (1516 HKT) May 30, 2020
(CNN)When the world looked to Asia for successful examples in handling the novel coronavirus outbreak, much attention and plaudits were paid to South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
But there’s one overlooked success story — Vietnam. The country of 97 million people has not reported a single coronavirus-related death and on Saturday had just 328 confirmed cases, despite its long border with China and the millions of Chinese visitors it receives each year.
This is all the more remarkable considering Vietnam is a low-middle income country with a much less-advanced healthcare system than others in the region. It only has 8 doctors for every 10,000 people, a third of the ratio in South Korea, according to the World Bank.
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Vietnam struggles to save British pilot, avoid first Covid death
bangkokpost.com – 14 MAY 2020 AT 17:30, WRITER: REUTERS
HANOI: Vietnam has mounted an all-out effort to save the life of its most critically ill coronavirus patient, a British pilot who works for Vietnam Airlines, the national carrier.
Through aggressive testing and a mass, centralised quarantine programme, the Southeast Asian country has kept its tally of coronavirus cases to just 288 and has reported no deaths.
Little expense has been spared to try save the life of the 43-year-old man, identified only as “Patient 91”, who caught the coronavirus at a bar in the southern business hub of Ho Chi Minh City in mid-March, state media reported. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam struggles to save British pilot, avoid first Covid death”
Vietnamese DAAD alumna donates protective masks to Germany
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in Bonn today received a donation of 1,000 nose and mouth masks as protection in the corona pandemic. An alumna from Vietnam thanks the donation for supporting the DAAD during their master’s degree.
Bonn May 13, 2020
© DAAD / singer DAAD General Secretary Dr. Dorothea Rüland received the masks from Thi Minh Chau Bui.
In Germany, a mask requirement applies in many federal states and areas such as retail or local transport. Masks are also used in the DAAD’s Bonn headquarters in the science center. The joy was correspondingly great when DAAD alumna Thi Minh Chau Bui from Vietnam approached her former funding organization with the wish to donate 1,000 reusable and washable mouth-nose masks.
“We are very happy about this unexpected donation, which helps us in times of the corona pandemic. It is a wonderful sign of solidarity, not only with the DAAD, but with the Federal Republic and its education system as a whole, ”said DAAD General Secretary Dr. Dorothea Rüland, who personally accepted the masks at the DAAD headquarters in Bonn.
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How Blood Sugar Can Trigger a Deadly Immune Response in the Flu and Possibly COVID-19
Glucose metabolism plays a key role in the cytokine storm seen in influenza, and the link could have potential implications for novel coronavirus infections
Many of the people dying in the novel coronavirus pandemic appear to be harmed more by their own immune system than by the virus itself. The infection can trigger a cytokine storm—a surge in cell-signaling proteins that prompt inflammation—that hits the lungs, attacking tissues and potentially resulting in organ failure and death. But this phenomenon is not unique to COVID-19; it sometimes occurs in severe influenza, too. Now a study sheds light on one of the metabolic mechanisms that help orchestrate such runaway inflammation. Tiếp tục đọc “How Blood Sugar Can Trigger a Deadly Immune Response in the Flu and Possibly COVID-19”
Pandemic Only 1 of America’s Security Concerns
Rumors have spread that China may be conducting nuclear tests in violation of zero-yield global agreements. Pictured: A security guard wears a face mask in Skidrow during the coronavirus pandemic on April 20 in Los Angeles, California. COVID-19 has spread to most countries around the world, claiming over 169,000 lives and infecting over 2.4 million people. (Photo: Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images/Getty Images)
The world was a dangerous place before—and will be after—the coronavirus pandemic.
While Americans debate the proper ongoing response to the virus and argue over the infection’s origins, nature, and trajectory, they may have tuned out other, often just as scary, news.
Many Americans are irate at China for its dishonest and lethal suppression of knowledge about the viral outbreak. But they may forget that China has other huge problems, too. Tiếp tục đọc “Pandemic Only 1 of America’s Security Concerns”
Hanoi building festooned in Vietnamese colors to support Covid-19 fight
An apartment building in Hanoi is festooned with red national flags on April 19, 2020. Photo courtesy of Prabu Mohan.
A photo capturing a Hanoi apartment block festooned in red flags to support Vietnam’s Covid-19 fight and those on the frontline, has gone viral.
The image, shot by Indian lecturer Prabu Mohan last Sunday, was posted on the Facebook community Hanoi Massive, frequented by 136,000 expat and local netizens living in the capital.
Over a hundred Vietnamese flags were hung from the balconies of an apartment building on Tam Trinh Street in Hoang Mai District, garnering thousands of Facebook likes and shares.
“One of the ways to show your support in difficult times,” Mohan wrote in the caption.
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Việt Nam: Bí quyết thành công của một chiến lược chống dịch “chi phí thấp”
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Là nước có hơn một ngàn cây số đường biên giới với Trung Quốc, nơi xuất phát dịch Covid-19 với con virus corona độc hại tỏa ra khắp thế giới đã khiến gần 2 triệu người bị nhiễm và gần 120.000 người thiệt mạng tính đến sáng 14/04/2020 (theo thống kê của Đại Học Mỹ Johns Hopkins), Việt Nam đã tạo ngạc nhiên không ít vì là nơi mà dịch bệnh chỉ tác hại nhẹ, với 265 ca nhiễm và không một ca tử vong (theo thống kê của bộ Y Tế Việt Nam)
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