The northern port city of Hai Phong will spray disinfectant over entire city two to three times a week during a period of 15 days, starting March 27, in an effort to cope with new developments in the COVID-19 epidemic in the country.

The northern port city of Hai Phong plans to spend 1 trillion VND (43 million USD) to tackle the fallout of the coronavirus outbreak, with a scenario of 1,000 confirmed infection cases.

Leading officials of the northern port city of Hai Phong on March 7 agreed to consider quarantining the whole Phu Luu village in Thuy Nguyen district’s Phu Ninh commune and Tan Lap residential area in Duong Kinh district’s Tan Thanh ward, as they are localities with high risks of the epidemic of the acute respiratory disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19).

The People’s Committee of northern Hai Phong city on January 31 asked Chinese businesses using labourers from China to pay special attention to the fight against the nCoV.

The northern port city of Hai Phong joined hands with China’s Yunnan province to provide free eye examinations and cataract operations for 70 patients at the Viet-Tiep Friendship Hospital in the Vietnamese city on May 29.

The northern port city of Hai Phong is stepping up solutions to control African swine fever (ASF), the municipal sub-department of animal husbandry and veterinary said on February 23.

An event aiming to raise public awareness about lifestyle-related disease prevention was held in the northern port city of Hai Phong on September 8.

The sub-department of animal husbandry and veterinary in northern Hai Phong city has culled 3,000 chickens infected with the avian flu virus A/H5N6.

A tuberculosis prevention project was launched in the port city of Hai Phong on October 1by the city’s Department of Health.

The Prime Minister has approved the proposal for a project to build a general hospital in the port city of Hai Phong.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc requested diversifying all possible resources to develop the Vietnam National Institute of Maritime Medicine (VINIMAM) – the first of its kind in Southeast Asia.