Health

Vietnamese citizens can update their daily health status and also provide information to the best of their knowledge about cases suspected of catching Covid-19 in their residential areas.

Medical declaration will be used merely for the prevention and control of the Covid-19 epidemic.

Health authorities have confirmed that the epidemic is under control in Vietnam.

The new cases took the same flight as Hanoi's first infected person who visited Lombardy, an epicenter in Italy, in mid-February.

Hanoi is tracking down the patient's travel history to quarantine and supervise all people who made close contact with her.

The biological kit uses molecular biotechnology for testing whose results have the same sensitivity as the World Health Organization (WHO)’s kit used for nCoV diagnosis.

In terms of Covid-19 diagnosis, Vietnam is capable of and has sufficient biological products for coronavirus detection.

Vietnam has successfully cured the first child patient with Covid-19.

Apart from the only case detected on January 17, no other infection has been found in Vietnam's south central province of Khanh Hoa.

Under the slogan “Giving Blood, Giving Life”, the blood donation festival is expected to attract 12,000 participants to donate blood.

The patient was one of Vietnam's first confirmed cases of nCoV infection after it was first detected in Wuhan in China last December.

The Ministry of Science and Technology expects that based on the results of the research, the project team may propose the use of lopinavir and ritonavir in treating nCoV patients.

The three patients are part of a group of eight people who returned from Wuhan on January 17.

The rapid test kit for the new coronavirus will be soon put into mass production, contributing to rapid diagnosis of the coronavirus.

Five of the eight Nihon Plast Company workers have been confirmed positive with the nCoV.

The new infected is one of the eight Vietnamese citizens who returned from the Chinese city of Wuhan on a January 17 Southern China flights.

Each citizen is provided with the same personal amenities and meals as the standards of a newly enlisted soldier.

The successful cultivation of nCoV is the basis for future research and development of a vaccine against the virus and provides more effective preventive measures.

Vietnam has stopped issuing visas to Chinese tourists. All Vietnamese citizens returning from China must be quarantined for 14 days.

Vietnam's Ministry of Education and Training is considering extending the school year if students have to take a long break due to the nCoV epidemic.