HCM City authorities have set up a working team responsible for buying Covid-19 vaccines for at least two-thirds of its population by year-end, said Nguyen Thanh Phong, the chairman of the People’s Committee.
PHNOM PENH, June 3 (Xinhua):Ten villagers subsequently died in northwest Cambodia s Pursat province after drinking locally-made rice wine, which was suspicious of containing high levels of methanol, a police chief said late on Thursday (June 4).
The incident occurred in three villages in Krakor district s Ansar Chambak commune when the victims consumed the tainted rice wine at the funeral of one of their neighbors last week, said Colonel Em Run, police chief of Krakor district. Ten people including eight women and two men were confirmed dead and several others have been hospitalized after drinking the adulterated wine, he told Xinhua over telephone.
Following instructions from the People’s Committee, the Vietnam National University- Ho Chi Minh City’s Military and Security Training Centre has now set up a new quarantine area with 600 beds and admitted 473 people.
Thailand’s Private Hospital Association is expected to use Moderna Inc. shots for its own inoculation programme alongside the government’s mass rollout of AstraZeneca Plc and Sinovac Biotech Ltd. vaccines.
The special isolation area at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases Dong Anh branch. - Vietnam News/ANN
HANOI, May 23 (Vietnam News/ANN): Vietnam recorded its 42nd Covid-19 related death on Saturday (May 22) evening.
The deceased patient was a 72-year-old woman who was admitted to the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases’ Dong Anh branch in Hanoi on April 30, with a six-year history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, with a diagnosis of severe pneumonia and hypertension.
On May 4, the patient tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.
She was transferred to the hospital’s department of emergency and intensive care. According to the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control, the woman had a number of underlying medical conditions.