The platform, launched earlier this month, also links with nearly 7,500 cameras in quarantine facilities in cities and provinces nationwide.

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The group also deployed mobile vehicles to 28 temporary hospitals, 68 others treating Covid-19 patients and 200 concentrated quarantine facilities. Earlier, it launched remote health check-up and treatment system Telehealth, Vietnam Health Declaration app, national communicable disease supervision system and the national drug supply system.

Regarding its business results, Viettel reported on July 29 that it earned 128.6 trillion VND (5.59 billion USD) in revenue in the first half of this year, up 6.8 percent annually.

Its before-tax profit reached 19.9 trillion VND, up 3.1 percent year-on-year.

Due to the complicated developments of Covid-19 pandemic, 95 percent of its points-of-sale in Ho Chi Minh City and 80 percent in Hanoi shut down or suspended operations.

To fulfill business targets, Viettel continued stepping up digital transformation in governance and fully using technological advances to care for customers via online platforms.

It also remained a key unit in building e-Government and smart urban areas, improving cyber security and creating digital society. It upgraded data infrastructure and began to build a new data centre in the southern province of Binh Duong.

The group expanded study on artificial intelligence in health care, remote sensing and industry. It also piloted “micro 5G” station to commercialise 5G network later this year.

Vietnam signs three Covid-19 vaccine technology transfer contracts

Vietnam has signed technology transfer contracts related to Covid-19 vaccines with partners from Russia, the US, and Japan, said Nguyen Ngo Quang, Deputy Director of the Health Ministry’s Department for Science, Technology and Training, on July 27.

Vietnam receives extra 3 mln Covid-19 vaccine doses from US via COVAX

Three million Moderna vaccine doses donated by the U.S. under the Covax facility arrived in Vietnam on Saturday, UNICEF Vietnam said in a statement.

Bac Giang receives 8,300 more Covid-19 vaccine doses

(BGO) – Bac Giang province on July 26 received 6,000 more AstraZeneca and 2,340 Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine doses.

Over 1.2 million more doses of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine arrives in HCM City

A total of 1,228,500 doses of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on July 23 morning.

First batch of Sputnik V vaccine produced in Vietnam

VABIOTECH, one of Vietnam’s leading pharmaceutical companies, and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) on July 21 announced the production of a test batch of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus in Vietnam.

Source: VNA