At the congress held in the form of a videoconference (Photo: VNA)
Rome (VNA)
– The
Vietnamese Students’ Association in Italy (ASVI) convened its first
congress for the 2021-2023 tenure in the form of videoconference on January 29.
At the event,
participants reviewed activities of the ASVI and students campaigns in the
recent past, as well as mapped out targets, orientations, tasks and action
plans of
Vietnamese youths in Italy in the new term.
In her remarks,
Vietnamese Ambassador to Italy Nguyen Thi Bich Hue appreciated contributions by
the ASVI, calling on the association to improve quality of its activities in a
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Students give a presentation on the role of the model of children s council in promoting children s right to participation (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – The model of
children’s council has enabled
children to promote their rights since it was piloted three years ago, heard a
meeting in Ho Chi Minh City on January 29.
The model was formed by the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee
in line with the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 123/QD-TTg dated August 3, 2015,
and was put into operation since June 2017.
It was piloted in five cities and provinces, comprising Yen Bai, Hanoi, Quang
Quang Ninh imposes social distancing in Van Don, lockdown in Cai Rong Northern Quang Ninh province has decided to put its Van Don district under social distancing and Van Don’s Cai Rong town in lockdown from 12pm on January 30 to 12pm on February 21.
Social distancing measures include maintaining a physical distance between people, wearing face masks, and performing sanitation and disinfection work in line with regulations.
The decision came after a 32-year-old woman in Cai Rong tested positive for COVID-19. She had close contact with Patient No. 1,553 – an employee at Quang Ninh’s Van Don International Airport who was confirmed infected on January 28.
Real Time PCR device is sent to
Hai Duong (VNA) – About 5,000 samples will be taken for COVID-19
testing on January 30 in the northern province of Hai Duong, the country’s
latest
COVID-19 outbreak, said Director of the provincial Centre for Disease
Control (CDC) Pham Duy Tuyen.
Contact tracing and
testing have been a top priority to promptly quarantine people having close
contact with the confirmed cases, he added.
Health workers from
major hospitals nationwide, including Bach Mai Hospital, the National Hospital
for Tropical Diseases and the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology,
have travelled to the province.
Hai Duong’s testing