PM requires localities to candidly identify hindrances of COVID-19 combat
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on December 16 chaired an online meeting with localities to find out the root cause of the surge in COVID-19 cases within the community, and seek drastic measures to curb the pandemic spread.
PM Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the meeting. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Pham MinhChinh on December 16 chaired an online meeting with localities to find out theroot cause of the surge in COVID-19 cases within the community, and seekdrastic measures to curb the pandemic spread.
The PM, who is also head of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, stressed that the pandemic is unpredictable with the emergence of the Omicron variant, while COVID-19 infections and death toll in the country keep rising, hence the meeting.
He required localities to candidly identify problems and difficulties in the pandemicfight, and raise proposals regarding vaccines, treatment drugs, medicalsupplies as well as the direction and implementation work.
Chinh stressed that extra efforts are needed to reducethe numbers of new cases, severe cases, and fatalities.
He asked localities to continue implementing theGovernment’s Resolution 128/NQ-CP dated October 11, 2021 on safe and flexibleadaptation to and effective control of the COVID-19 pandemic. No locality isallowed to issue regulations contrary to those by the upper level.
The Ministry of Health reported that in the fourth wave of outbreaks to December15, the country recorded more than 1.4 million cases of COVID-19, with 28,500deaths. Over 1 million patients hadrecovered.
In the week from December 9 to 15, the country detected 106,918new infections, including 64,723 found in the community. Most of the new caseswere reported in the southern region (71.2 percent).
The ministry forecast that new infections and deathswould increase in many localities in the time ahead as social activities havebeen resumed, people begin to let guard down and new variants spread quickly,among other reasons./.
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The Vietnamese Embassy in Venezuela and Colombia held a webinar on sharing experience in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic and measures for the economic recovery of Vietnam and Colombia on December 15.
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The PM called for closer, broader, and more effective cooperation with Vietnamese partners, guided by the principles of mutual benefit, joint efforts, shared outcomes, and common development, including promoting stronger public-private partnerships and collaboration with businesses.
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Leading Vietnamese companies specialising in respiratory and dermatological treatments, traditional medicine, immune support supplements, and functional foods will have an opportunity to connect with international distributors and secure export deals.
The project aimed to enable early detection and reduce the risk of dangerous complications, targeting patients with chronic diabetes, cardiovascular conditions and metabolic disorders.
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The Red Journey has become the country’s largest and most effective blood donation campaign, leaving a strong impression on the national voluntary blood donation movement.
This case marks the ninth fetal cardiac intervention conducted in HCM City, and it was considered the most technically demanding to date due to the fetus’s extremely early gestational age and the severity of the condition as diagnosed with aortic atresia.
The groundbreaking ceremony took place one day after the VNVC Vaccine JS Company and Sanofi Group exchanged cooperation documents on vaccine production technology transfer under the witness of State President Luong Cuong and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Vietnam’s traditional medicine took centre stage at the International Congress Biopharm Nonclinical Development, BioNCiD 2025, held on May 25-26 in the Cuban city of Varadero, amid growing global interest in sustainable healthcare solutions.
Under the agreement, VNVC and Sanofi will gradually implement technology transfers to enable domestic production of several key Sanofi vaccines that are widely used in Vietnam. In addition, Sanofi will support VNVC in training human resources and quality management in vaccine research and manufacturing.
Despite the ongoing global circulation and unpredictable developments of SARS-CoV-2, the World Health Organisation (WHO) hasn’t issued new warnings about COVID-19, said the Ministry of Health.
PM Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the meeting. (Photo: VNA) 
