The Ministry of Health is urging the acceleration of the administration of the third and fourth shots, given the continuously complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic in many European countries related to the BA.4 and BA.5 variants.
During a meeting with representatives of ministries and agencies in Hanoi, the leader reiterated the policy of protecting citizens’ lives partly at the expense of economic growth.He asked for efforts to seek solutions to national development...
Vietnamese agricultural exports to China are being severely hit as terminal markets in the world’s second largest economy will not reopen until February 9 due to the ongoing new coronavirus (nCoV) outbreak, according to the Agricultural...
Siemens Healthineers announced on January its CE-marked immunoassay—the Novagnost® Zika Virus IgM µ-capture Assay1—is now commercially available to laboratories outside of the U.S.
Ho Chi Minh City has 141 reported cases of Zika virus through December 20 in 23 districts, 18 of which are pregnant women who have contracted the mosquito-borne disease, reports the City Preventive Medicine Centre.
Hung Vuong Hospital, which gives check-ups to about 600 pregnant women each day, has provided Zika-related advice and tests since April under Ministry of Health orders. Newly-born babies there are also examined for microcephaly, doctor...
Updated information on the latest development of Zika virus and response measures suitable with the situation was the focus of a meeting of the Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) held by the Ministry of Health on May 1.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently announced that Zika virus causes unborn babies’ deformities, including microcephaly.
BTO- People’s Committee of Phan Thiet city lately held a ceremony in Mui Ne ward to appeal the inhabitants to self destroy mosquitoes, mosquito larva for preventing-combating hemorrhagic fever and diseases caused by Zika virus.
Vietnam has so far recorded no cases related to Zika virus, which is now affecting 54 countries and territories worldwide, the Ministry of Health’s Preventive Medicine Department announced on March 7.
The northern border province of Lao Cai is taking various measures that focus on health monitoring for people at border entry points, to prevent Zika virus from entering Vietnam.
Although no cases of Zika virus have been recorded in Vietnam, the Centre for International Health Quarantine of Ho Chi Minh City is carrying out various measures to prevent the virus from entering the country and to contain it in case...
