Vietnam Bans All Religious Events After Protestant Church Service Triggers COVID Cluster
On 6/4/21 at 9:57 AM EDT
Vietnam banned public gatherings of more than 10 people for the next two weeks, including religious gatherings, as they crack down on a COVID-19 cluster that appeared at a church, the Associated Press reported.
Police filed a case against a couple that heads a Protestant church mission in Vietnam for spreading dangerous infectious diseases, saying there were poor health protocols at their gatherings, the Vietnam New Agency reported.
The newspaper also said Ho Chi Minh City planned to test high-risk groups with a capacity to test around 100,000 per day for the 9 million in the city.
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Health authorities in Vietnam appear to have identified a potential new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The variant has been described as a mixture between the Alpha variant and the Delta variant, as per the new World Health Organization (WHO) naming convention. These two variants were first identified in the UK and India, respectively.
“Vietnam has uncovered a new COVID-19 variant combining characteristics of the two existing variants first found in India and the UK,” health minister Nguyen Thanh Long said on Saturday during a government meeting, as reported by Reuters. “That the new one is an Indian variant with mutations that originally belong to the UK variant is very dangerous.”
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Thu, 3 June 2021
Vietnam will resume international flights to its two biggest cities, officials said on June 2, reversing a short-lived ban imposed over fears of a new coronavirus wave.
The country’s Covid-19 cases have more than doubled in the past month, prompting bars, restaurants and schools to close and a rush to secure vaccines.
As the country struggled to contain a virus outbreak in more than half of its territories, the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam on May 31 announced a temporary suspension for international passenger arrivals at Hanoi’s Noi Bai airport from June 1-7.
A similar order was in force for the airport in commercial capital Ho Chi Minh City until June 14.