Class A infectious diseases are those with high infection and fatality rates, like polio, influenza A-H5N1, plague, smallpox, Ebola, Lassa and Marburg hemorrhagic fever, West Nile fever, yellow fever and cholera.

Treating Covid-19 patient.

Meanwhile, Class B ones are those that can spread fast and cause fatalities, including HIV/AIDS, rabies, influenza, diphtheria, pertussis, tuberculosis, mumps, dengue fever, malaria, measles, hand-foot-and-mouth disease, tetanus, and rotavirus diarrhea.

The steering committee also requested ministries, sectors and localities to continue studying recommendations of the World Health Organisation (WHO) to appropriately apply to the disease situation in Vietnam; and prepare plans for Covid-19 prevention and control suitable to the new situation, especially in strengthening grassroots health care and preventive medicine, and mobilising and using resources.

The Health Ministry was asked to research and implement vaccination against Covid-19 in accordance with the situation, and consider putting it in the National Expanded Immunisation Programme.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs was required to maintain the effective implementation of social welfare work, especially for those affected by the pandemic.

Bac Giang takes active prevention measures against Covid-19 disease in industrial parks

(BGO) – Since early April, several new Covid-19 infections have been detected in some industrial parks (IP) and localities in Bac Giang province. The provincial People’s Committee issued correspondence directing departments and sectors, especially the provincial Industrial Park Management Board (IPMB) to enhance prevention measures and stabilize the production.

Vietnamese doctors offer free medical check-ups, medicines for people in Cambodia

Medical workers from the Ho Chi Minh City Charity Association, donors, and authorities in Koh Khsach Tonlea commune, Sa'Ang district, Cambodia’s Kandal province on June 17 gave free medical check-ups and medicines for about 800 local people.

British Covid-19 patients return and thank Vietnamese doctors

British patients, Dixon John Garth and Shan Coralie Barker, returned to Hanoi-based National Hospital for Tropical Diseases on March 8 to thank doctors and nurses for taking care of them and saving them from Covid-19 three years ago.

Vietnamese doctors help with robotic surgeries in Philippines

Doctors from Binh Dan Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City have assisted their colleagues at Chinese General Hospital and Medical Center (CGHMC) of the Philippines with using robots to perform Gastrointestinal (GI) cancer surgeries.

Doctors of the village

(BGO) - In the extremely difficult commune of Truong Son, Luc Nam district, Bac Giang province, medical workers at grassroots-level have promoted their role as an arm of the health sector in performing the task of taking care of public health, winning people’s trust.

Source: VNA