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Over 90% of Vietnam's Adult Population Now Fully Vaccinated: Health Ministry
Vietnam's vaccination campaign has made remarkable strides over the last six months.
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Health
Vietnam's vaccination campaign has made remarkable strides over the last six months.

Saigon
Only 21 people passed away from COVID-19 on January 6 in Saigon.

Saigon
The Delta variant of the novel coronavirus was the main reason that the current outbreak in Saigon was so fast-spreading and severe, a recent report shows.

Saigon
Hospital beds were once a scarcity that became filled as soon as they were set up, but the number of cases in southern COVID-19 hot spots has plummeted to the point that many field hospitals are no longer needed.

Health
As the coronavirus makes its way across Saigon and Vietnam, maternity care has become a particularly serious issue as more and more pregnant residents are getting infected.

Health
Aside from buying COVID-19 vaccines from elsewhere in the world, Vietnam is also trying to create its own version, with the hope of reaching herd immunity as soon as possible.

Food Culture
It will be a Trung Thu like no other this year in Saigon, as the city undergoes the strictest movement curbs yet.

Tech
Vietnamese engineers are encouraging the community to submit 5,000 different cough recordings. This will be used as data for building AI software — AICOVIDVN — that can detect COVID-19 based on how the cough sounds.

Sports
Despite early containment success, Southeast Asian countries facing the Delta variant are channeling resources to healthcare instead of sports.

Vietnam
July 5 was a dark day in Vietnam’s epidemic, as the country’s single-day COVID-19 case tally surpassed 1,000 for the first time since the pandemic began last year.

Saigon
To ease mounting pressure on centralized quarantine facilities, Vietnam has agreed to let those who have had direct contact with confirmed COVID-19 cases (F1) in Ho Chi Minh City to isolate at home on a trial basis.