The 30 phone numbers will operate 24/24 from 9am on August 12, providing online medical examination across 30 specialist areas such as oncology, endocrinology, cardiology, orthopedic trauma, neurology, respiratory, digestive, urology, artificial kidney, and others.

The 30 phone numbers will operate 24/24 from 9am on August 12, providing online medical examination across 30 specialist areas.

*The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union in Binh Thuan province has launched an initiative to present petrol and protective items to volunteer shippers in the province to join hands with them in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.

Shippers who volunteer to help local people buy food and transport necessities and those who work at checkpoints, vaccination areas, concentrated quarantine areas and Covid-10 treatment facilities will be provided with free petrol and protective items.

*Hanoi recorded 26 new Covid-19 infections as of noon of August 12 including 18 in isolation areas and eight in the community.

The new cases were reported in Dong Anh (10), Dong Da (6), Thach That (6), Hai Ba Trung (2), and Ha Dong (2).

Hanoi has confirmed 1,985 positive cases of SARS-CoV-2 since April 29 including 1,128 cases detected in the community.

* The Hanoi municipal Command for Covid-19 Prevention and Control has just sent a document to agencies and units in the city asking for the further implementation of QR code scanning to serve in the quick tracing, prevention and control of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The request was made as the number of people scanning QR codes for medical declaration is too small with an average of only about 141,800 scans per day.

* The Vietnam Young Entrepreneurs Association presented ventilators and medical equipment worth over VND2 billion (US$88,000) to seven provinces and cities on August 11 and 12.

Twenty ventilators, 7,000 Covid-19 rapid test kids, and 700 boxes of Miaqua sugarcane juice were presented to the provinces and cities of Long An, Dong Nai, Can Tho, Khanh Hoa, Binh Thuan, Da Nang and Ben Tre to help them in their fight against the pandemic.

Hanoi prepares 5,000 hospital beds to treat COVID-19 patients

Hanoi is working to ready 5,000 hospital beds for Covid-19 patients as the pandemic is developing complicatedly and unpredictably in the city.

Bac Giang: 4,128 recovered Covid-19 patients discharged from hospitals

(BGO) – On July 1, another 214 Covid-19 patients in Bac Giang province were released from hospitals, reported the provincial Department of Health.

Bac Giang has another hospital qualified to test SARS-CoV-2

(BGO) – Since July 14, Hanoi – Bac Giang International General Hospital has conducted service of SARS-CoV-2 test by Realtime RT-PCR.

3,705 Covid-19 patients discharged from hospitals

(BGO) – On June 29, another 149 Covid-19 patients in Bac Giang province were discharged from hospitals, making total number of recovered patients in the province up to 3,705. 

Over 3,500 Covid-19 patients released from hospitals in Bac Giang

(BGO) – Bac Giang province on June 28 released more 228 Covid-19 patients from hospital, reported the provincial Department of Health.

Source: NDO