PM Chinh ordered readiness without neglect and subjectivity as the pandemic may continue developing in a complicated and unpredictable manner with the Omicron variant.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chairs teleconference between the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control with ministries, sectors, and 63 provinces and cities.

He stressed the importance of continuing to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, focus on curbing the risks, limiting the number of severe cases and fatalities, promoting rapid recovery and sustainable development, ensuring social welfare and maintaining national defense and security.

It is necessary to speed up the implementation of the vaccination drive, with the goals of completing the injection of the booster shot for people aged from 18 in the first quarter of 2022, completing the 2nd injection for those aged 12-17 in March, preparing a vaccination campaign for children from 5-11 years old, and studying the administration of the fourth shot for adults and injection for children under 5 years old.

The Ministry of Health was required to urgently license drugs for pandemic prevention and treatment, and intensify guidance on treatment measures at home, at medical facilities, while the Ministry of Information and Communications was asked to continue perfecting technologies serving pandemic prevention and control based on the population database.

The Government leader also ordered the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to coordinate with other agencies to prepare for the official reopening of tourism activities on March 15.

As the spirit of pandemic prevention and control is without precedent, so it does not need perfectionism, cannot be in a hurry, but need closely follow the situation to continue to learn from experience and make appropriate adjustments, he stressed.

According to a report by the Health Ministry, Vietnam has to date recorded nearly 4.06 million infections, of whom 2.59 million have fully recovered and 40,609 deaths.

As of March 3, Vietnam had received 218 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines of all kinds, of which over 196 million doses have been administered.

Bac Giang approves for community based tourism development project in period 2022-2030

(BGO) – The People’s Committee in Bac Giang province has issued decision to approve for community based tourism development project in the period 2022-2030 to tap the advantages and potentials of local tourism resources to create new tourism product, divesify services and utilities to serve public benefit and attract more visitors.

PM issues dispatch on protecting Vietnamese citizens, legal entities in Ukraine

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has signed official dispatch 201/CD-TTg dated February 26, 2022 on the protection of Vietnamese citizens and legal entities in Ukraine.

Vietnam president, Singapore PM agree on boosting ties post pandemic

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong have agreed to promote defense and security cooperation at a meeting in Singapore.

Creating new impetus for development

(BGO) - Good news comes to us in the early days of the Year of the Tiger 2022, as Bac Giang is the first province to have its provincial planning for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050 approved by the Prime Minister. The new path has opened and the urgent task is to organize the effective implementation of the planning to promote fast, comprehensive and sustainable socio-economic development.

Preservation of Lo Lo ethnic minority culture associated with tourism development

A ceremony was held in the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang on February 23 to inaugurate a community house and review the project on the preservation of the Lo Lo ethnic minority group in Khuoi Khon Hamlet, Kim Cuc Commune, Bao Lac District.

Source: NDO/VNA