Hanoi reports 45 new COVID-19 infections over last 6 hours
Hanoi reported 45 new COVID-19 cases, all in quarantined sites and locked down areas, over the six hours from 6am to 12pm on August 30, according to the municipal Department of Health.
F1 cases living inside a locked down alley in Thanh Xuan Trung Commune, Hanoi's Thanh Xuan District carry their belongings as they are about to be sent to a centralised quarantine site. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Hanoi reported 45 new COVID-19cases, all in quarantined sites and locked down areas, over the six hours from 6am to 12pm on August 30, according to the municipal Department of Health.
Thanh Xuan district has become the city’s new COVID-19hotspot, accounting for the highest number of infections, 32. It was followedby Hai Ba Trung (7), Dong Anh (3), Hoang Mai (1), Dong Da (1) and Hoai Duc (1).
The capital city has documented a total of 3,159 casessince the fourth coronavirus wave struck the country in late April.
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Since the fourth wave of COVID-19 started on April 27, Hanoi has logged 3,159 infections.
More than 2.9 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines havebeen inoculated in Hanoi to date.
Vietnam’s COVID-19 caseload has reached 435,265 as of 6amon August 30, with death toll hitting 10,749.
The country has administered over 19.43 million COVID-1🤡9vaccine shots, with more than 2.43 million people fully vaccinated with twojabs./.
A hospital providing treatment for severe and critical COVID-19 patients in Hanoi and northern localities will be put into operation on September 1 after one month of construction.
The People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City has allowed shippers to resume operations in eight COVID-19 “red zones” under certain conditions from August 30.
The People’s Committee of Hanoi has required departments, sectors and localities across the city to intensify testing and tracing to filter COVID-19 patients out of the community, while preparing quarantine and treatment facilities to be ready for any circumstances.
Hanoi has so far offered financial aid worth nearly 750 billion VND (nearly 33.05 million USD) to 2.34 million disadvantaged households and people who are struggling to make ends meet because of COVID-19 impacts.
The Ministry of Health on August 30 held a ceremony to receive 250,800 doses of AstraZeneca and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines granted for Vietnam by the Czech Republic Government.
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This case marks the ninth fetal cardiac intervention conducted in HCM City, and it was considered the most technically demanding to date due to the fetus’s extremely early gestational age and the severity of the condition as diagnosed with aortic atresia.
The groundbreaking ceremony took place one day after the VNVC Vaccine JS Company and Sanofi Group exchanged cooperation documents on vaccine production technology transfer under the witness of State President Luong Cuong and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Vietnam’s traditional medicine took centre stage at the International Congress Biopharm Nonclinical Development, BioNCiD 2025, held on May 25-26 in the Cuban city of Varadero, amid growing global interest in sustainable healthcare solutions.
Under the agreement, VNVC and Sanofi will gradually implement technology transfers to enable domestic production of several key Sanofi vaccines that are widely used in Vietnam. In addition, Sanofi will support VNVC in training human resources and quality management in vaccine research and manufacturing.
Despite the ongoing global circulation and unpredictable developments of SARS-CoV-2, the World Health Organisation (WHO) hasn’t issued new warnings about COVID-19, said the Ministry of Health.
F1 cases living inside a locked down alley in Thanh Xuan Trung Commune, Hanoi's Thanh Xuan District carry their belongings as they are about to be sent to a centralised quarantine site. (Photo: VNA)
