Sunday, February 07, 2021, 12:15 GMT+7
A file photo shows firework display in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo: Tu Trung/ Tuoi Tre
Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday announced to cancel its firework display performance to celebrate Tet (Vietnamese Lunar New Year, which falls on February 12 this year) to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Earlier, the municipal People’s Committee planned to organized pyrotechnic displays on Lunar New Year’s Eve at eight locations in districts 2, 11, 9, Binh Thanh, Cu Chi, Can Gio, Nha Be and Binh Chanh.
The local government has also assigned the Department of Information and Communications to work with local media to inform the cancelation to people in the city.
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04/02/2021 19:22 GMT+7
Two major bus stations in HCM City have started attracting crowds with less than two weeks to go for Tet.
Mien Dong bus station in HCM City’s Binh Thanh District. VNA/VNS Photo Hoang Hai
Both Mien Dong (Eastern) Bus Station in Binh Thanh District and Mien Tay (Western) Bus Station in Binh Tan District require passengers to follow COVID-19 preventive measures like wearing masks and keep a safe distance from others and check temperatures and tell passengers to declare their health status before entering.
Wednesday, February 03, 2021, 07:29 GMT+7
Passengers wait to return purchased tickets at Saigon Railway Station in Ho Chi Minh City, February 2, 2021. Photo: Duc Phu / Tuoi Tre
Many people in southern Vietnam have rushed to return railway tickets as they skipped their hometown-returning plans for the Lunar New Year holiday for fear of new coronavirus outbreaks in ten provinces and cities in the past week.
The mass ticket return has taken place at Di An Station in Binh Duong Province, Saigon Station in Ho Chi Minh City, and Bien Hoa Station in Dong Nai Province.
The passengers started pouring to Di An Station in Binh Duong to return purchased tickets on Monday, right after the southern province announced its second community case of COVID-19 infection.
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02/02/2021 15:41 GMT+7
Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long confirmed five new locally-transmitted Covid-19 patients in Quang Ninh, Hai Duong and Hanoi at the Government’s online meeting with 63 cities and provinces this morning, February 2.
Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long at the meeting on February 2 morning.
Quang Ninh reported three cases, while Hanoi and Hai Duong confirmed one each.
Up to now, Hai Duong Province has reported 207 Covid-19 cases in the current wave, while Quang Ninh Province and Hanoi City have confirmed 33 and 20 cases, respectively. Gia Lai Province has reported six Covid-19 cases, Bac Ninh Province, three, Hoa Binh Province, two, and Binh Duong Province, two.
Wednesday, January 20, 2021, 15:49 GMT+7
This image shows the site where bus No. 150 crushed a 55-year-old woman to death in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City on January 20, 2021. Photo: Le Phan / Tuoi Tre
A pedestrian died on Wednesday after a bus ran over her in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City.
At 8:30 am on Tuesday, bus No. 150 was traveling on Nguyen Dinh Chieu Street from the Dinh Tien Hoang Street direction to Hai Ba Trung Street in District 1, according to authorities’ report.
The bus slammed into a 55-year-old woman who was crossing the street when it was about 50 meters away from the Nguyen Dinh Chieu-Mac Dinh Chi intersection in Da Kao Ward, District 1.