Vietnam locks down its 3rd-largest city as virus cases grow
Vietnam has locked down its third-largest city for two weeks after 15 cases of COVID-19 were found in a hospital
Vietnam to evacuate 80,000 tourists from Da Nang after three residents contract Covid-19
Vietnam is evacuating 80,000 people — mostly local tourists — from the popular resort city of Da Nang after three residents tested positive for coronavirus, the government said.
Vietnam, lauded in coronavirus fight, has first local case in 100 days
A 57-year-old grandfather in the city of Danang, with no history of travel, tested positive and has been hospitalized. Health officials are tracing his contacts.
Vietnam to resume select international flights
Vietnam is further easing restrictions as it reopens its borders to select destinations deemed to have handled the coronavirus well.
101 South Korean experts quarantined on Vietnam’s biggest island
101 South Korean experts, managers and high-tech workers from Incheon City were quarantined Sunday upon arrival on Phu Quoc Island in southern Vietnam.
Traders turn ash into cash in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
People in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang do not mind getting dirty and inhaling toxic dust as they spend days afloat collecting ash and selling it for compost to make a living.
Ten million kids ‘may never return to school’ after virus
The coronavirus pandemic has caused an « unprecedented education emergency » with up to 9.7 million children affected by school closures at risk of never going back to class, Save the Children warned Monday.
British pilot heading home after Vietnam hospital discharge
A British pilot who was Vietnam’s most critical COVID-19 patient was discharged from a hospital on Saturday, less than a week after doctors said he was virus-free and healthy enough to return home to Scotland.
Vietnam exempt from England’s quarantine requirements
England has listed Vietnam among 59 countries and territories from where travelers would be exempted from 14-day quarantine.
First Japan-Vietnam commercial flights resumed after pandemic
As many as 450 Japanese experts and businessmen have boarded the first commercial flights post-pandemic to Vietnam between Thursday and Saturday as the two countries begin to relax travel restrictions on a mutual basis, Japanese media have reported.
Patient 91 : How Vietnam saved a British pilot and kept a clean Covid-19 sheet
« If I’d been almost anywhere else on the planet, I’d be dead. They would have flicked the switch after 30 days, » says Stephen Cameron from his hospital bed.
Virus-free Vietnam not ready to open doors to foreign tourists yet
Despite successfully containing its COVID-19 outbreak, Vietnam has no plans to open up to international tourists yet over fears that doing so could lead to a second wave of infections, the Southeast Asian country’s prime minister said on Wednesday.
Nationalism, heroism and media in Vietnam’s war on COVID-19
While many countries around the world are struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic, 11 May 2020 marked the end of the ‘longest New Year (Tet) holiday ever’ for students in Vietnam.
Vietnam maintains strict health rules
Only Vietnamese nationals, foreigners on diplomatic or official business, and highly skilled workers are currently allowed to travel to Vietnam, the official website Vietnam Tourism reported 23 June.
56% of wild animals in Vietnam’s restaurants have a coronavirus, study says
A new report has found an alarmingly high rate of coronaviruses in wildlife about to be served at restaurants in Vietnam.
Vietnam is considering allowing travel from these countries
The country’s government says it could welcome visitors from certain ‘safe regions’ as early as July
Censorship tactics overshadow Vietnam’s successful COVID-19 response
The pandemic has offered an opportunity for the police state to flex its muscles
Vietnam plans to resume flights to some virus-free countries
Vietnam plans to allow a resumption of flights to and from countries that have had no cases of coronavirus for 30 days, state media cited the prime minister as saying on Tuesday, with priority destinations including Japan, South Korea and…
Abortion still ‘used as contraceptive’ in Vietnam
Huong has had two abortions in two years. No one had ever talked to her about sex: not her parents, not her teachers — and her friends knew as little as she did.
Vietnam ships 30 million masks to North America
Thirty million medical face masks have been transported from Vietnam to North America, where the novel coronavirus continues to rampage.
COVID Confessions : Different responses, different results observed from Vietnam
When I stepped into the taxi, the driver shook his head and adjusted his mask a little more tightly. “American?” he asked. “You have more deaths than anywhere in the world! You are lucky to be safe in Vietnam.”
How Vietnam managed to keep its coronavirus death toll at zero
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.
Vietnam still not open to international visitors
Vietnam is still not open to international visitors, while it is yet to be decided when the Southeast Asian country will start welcoming foreign tourists again, according to the National Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
British pilot with coronavirus in Vietnam wakes from coma
Patient may need double lung transplant and could be repatriated, say officials
Vietnam pulls out the stops to save ‘Patient 91’
British pilot is on life support as officials race to find a lung transport donor
Vietnam offers cut-price paradise to lure local travellers post coronavirus
In Phu Quoc, a Vietnamese island off the coast of Cambodia, posters warning tourists of the dangers of COVID-19 have long since faded in the powerful sunshine, along with the throngs of international travellers that used to dot its beaches.