Nine million people in Ho Chi Minh City have been ordered into lockdown, state media said Wednesday, as the commercial hub struggles to contain Vietnam’s most serious COVID-19 outbreak so far. Beginning in the early hours of Friday, residents will be mandated to stay at home for two weeks after 8,000 cases were recorded in … Read more
The international airport of Vietnam’s capital will suspend inbound flights from abroad beginning Tuesday, the country’s aviation body announced, as it grapples with a fresh wave of virus outbreaks. A “temporary suspension of receiving international flights” will begin at Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport from 1 June at midnight until 7 June, the Civil Aviation … Read more
Vietnam has discovered a new COVID-19 variant which spreads quickly by air and is a combination of the Indian and British strains, health officials confirmed Saturday. The country is struggling to deal with fresh outbreaks across more than half of its territory, including industrial zones and big cities such as Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh … Read more
Vietnam reported its first local transmission of COVID-19 in nearly three months on Monday (30 Nov), with officials scrambling to prevent a wider outbreak in the country’s most populous city. The communist nation was applauded earlier this year for controlling the pandemic with strict restrictions on movement, extensive quarantine measures and a robust track-and-trace regime. … Read more
In a joint statement on Thursday (27 Aug), FORUM-ASIA and 18 undersigned civil society organisations condemned the ongoing intimidation against human rights defender and prominent blogger Huynh Thuc Vy and urged the Government, as the Chair of ASEAN, to end the practice of using judicial harassment to intimidate human rights defenders. Huynh Thuc Vy, a … Read more