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​During the day, the province recorded 455 cases through RT-PCR testing and had full epidemiological information; 16 patients died. Number of new F0 patients during the day: 4,731 patients [treatment facility: 287 patients; at home: 4,084 patients].

Since the 4th pandemic wave, Binh Duong province has recorded 285,589 cases of Covid-19 [through RT-PCR test]; 2,854 deaths.

Number of Covid-19 cases through RT-PCR test on December 8, 2021

Treatment facilities throughout the province are treating: 2,324 patients [1st floor: 1,140 patients, 2nd floor: 807 patients and 3rd floor: 377 patients]. Number of critical ill patients requiring oxygen: 563 patients.

Cumulatively, the province has vaccinated 4,286,283 doses/4,803,800 doses of the distributed Covid-19 vaccine [2,457,391 1st doses and 1,828,892 2nd doses]; 251,661 doses were administered to subjects aged 12-17 years [of which 132,913 doses were given to subjects 15-17 years old and 118,748 doses were given to subjects 12-14 years old].

There are currently 162 Mobile medical stations in the province [including 99 Mobile medical stations in communes, wards and townships; 43 Mobile medical stations in industrial zones; 20 mobile medical teams of Military Medicine].​

Reported by Yen Nhi - Translated by Nguyen Trang

​​The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said, regarding 61 proposals and suggestions of voters related to the fields that have an impact on the people's lives and activities [traffic, health, education, regimes, policies, etc.] sent to the meeting, the Provincial People's Committee has accepted with the progressive spirit and has assigned and directed departments, branches and localities to urgently consider settlement and report to explain under their competence.

At the meeting, the Provincial People's Committee also received 15 opinions from the delegations, proposing a number of contents related to the management, direction and administration of the Provincial People's Committee. The Provincial People's Committee has directed branches and localities to review and focus on timely settlement, proactively including specific plans and directions of their units for implementation in the following years.

03 groups of solutions to accelerate the public investment disbursement

Providing information at the meeting, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said, drawing experience for public investment in 2020 and previous years, right from the beginning of 2021, the Provincial People's Committee has focused on directing to accelerate the implementation and disbursement of public investment capital, establishing a Steering Committee for the implementation of key public investment projects for the 2020-2025 tenure; a team to inspect the compensation and ground clearance, etc. However, from April to October 2021, the Covid-19 pandemic broke out strongly, causing activities to be paused, interrupted or only able to perform some jobs.

After the province returned to the new normal, public investment disbursement tended to be more positive, the disbursement value from September 15 to November 30, 2021 alone is 75% higher than the disbursement value in the first 9 months of the year. It is estimated that the implementation volume eligible for disbursement in 2021 is 9,296 billion VND, reaching 75.6% of the plan.

To accelerate the disbursement of public investment plans in the coming time, the Provincial People's Committee focuses on implementing 3 groups of solutions. In which, focusing on investment procedures. Well performing the investment preparation preparation for project implementation, preparation and appraisal of report on investment policy proposal, feasibility study report, expeditiously completing the design - cost estimate approval procedures, bidding procedures for important key projects. Focusing on completing the procedures for acceptance and payment of capital when there is a volume, not to accumulate at the end of the year.

Focusing on reviewing and resolutely eliminating inefficient projects, projects that are not really necessary and urgent, prioritizing capital for key projects, creating motivation for development, compensation and site clearance projects, etc. Developing an implementation schedule associated with the capital plan for each works or project. Developing a list of investment priorities for transport projects, giving priority to compensation and site clearance for the entire road once.

The key solution is site clearance and capital mobilization. Focusing on performing well the site clearance, especially the work of mobilizing people, speeding up the early schedule of handing over the site for construction. Formulating a project to exploit the land fund to create capital for infrastructure development according to regulations. Priority shall be given to allocating these resources to localities that have well performed the exploitation of the land fund to invest in compensation and site clearance for transport works.

Deploying key transport projects

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said that along with the general situation of public investment, transport infrastructure projects must temporarily stop construction to ensure pandemic prevention and control. Up to now, the pandemic situation is under control, the province has focused on speeding up the construction schedule of projects, especially key projects.

Especially in 2021, for the first time, the Government's Standing Committee had an online meeting with the Provincial Standing Party Committee, listened to the proposed report and gave instructions to Binh Duong province to prepare to invest in a number of projects. At this meeting, the Provincial People's Committee presented 02 projects: Adjustment of investment policy in the project of creating landscape, preventing traffic jams on the roads of My Phuoc - Tan Van, DT.746, DT.747B, DT.743 under the mode of public-private partnership [PPP]; Adjustment of investment policy in BOT project to upgrade and expand National Highway 13. In addition, the Provincial People's Committee has coordinated with localities in the region to implement the following projects: Ho Chi Minh - Thu Dau Mot - Chon Thanh Expressway, Ring Road 3, Ring Road 4, Traffic infrastructure connecting Dong Nai province, etc. These are the main arterial roads of the province, when completed, they will basically solve the traffic jam situation in the past time.

Besides, the province still regularly maintains the upgrading, repairing, patching, investing in lighting, upgrading the drainage system, etc.; at the same time, continues to maintain the implementation of flexible hourly and routed traffic distribution, arranges force to guard the post, and applies technology in traffic regulation at key and arterial intersections.

Supporting enterprises to restore production and business

In 2021, the world in general, Vietnam and Binh Duong in particular face many difficulties in production and business activities in terms of capital, labor, lack of raw materials, production costs, etc. causing an increase in the number of enterprises being suspended, dissolved or reduced capital.

As soon as there was a pandemic, in addition to the establishment of Steering Committees, assisting groups, sub-committees for pandemic prevention and control, the Provincial People's Committee has established the Enterprise Support Steering Committee, the Enterprise Support Group; assigned members of the Steering Committee to work directly with enterprises, grasp the situation and have timely support solutions. The province also promulgated a plan on restoring socio-economic activities in the new normal and implementing temporary measures for safe, flexible adaptation, effective control over the Covid-19 pandemic in the province under the Government's Resolution no. 128/NQ-CP.

In addition, the province has established a working group to support and remove difficulties and obstacles for individuals, organizations and enterprises, and restore production and business activities. Actively coordinating with the State Bank to connect banks and enterprises, creating favorable conditions for enterprises to access credit. Establishing many delegations to go to localities to coordinate and welcome workers from provinces and cities wishing to return to Binh Duong to work. At the same time, organizing dialogues and meetings with enterprises, investors, trade associations with appropriate forms.

In particular, recently, Binh Duong province collaborated with the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics to organize a Webinar themed "Solutions for Binh Duong to adapt safely, flexibly, effectively control the Covid-19 pandemic, restore production and develop socio-economy in the coming time"; the province also attended the "Summit on sustainable socio-economic recovery and development in the post-Covid-19 period and accelerating modernization and industrialization indigital era". At seminars and forums, the ideas and proposals of Binh Duong and domestic and foreign experts are considered, researched and replicated; on that basis, there will be specific local policies to contribute to support and create conditions for enterprises to promote recovery and stable development in the new situation.

In the coming time, the Provincial People's Committee will continue to monitor and direct departments, branches and localities to focus on solving specific and comprehensive difficulties, creating the most favorable conditions for economic sectors to recover production and business in each industry and field, especially long-term and strategic issues.

Improving health human resources to meet the new situation

Over the past five years, the Health branch has taken many measures to attract doctors and nurses to work in the locality. The number of doctors has increased rapidly in recent years, from 1,135 doctors in 2016 to 2,008 doctors in 2021 [an average increase of 175 doctors per year]. However, due to the province's mechanical population growth rate being too fast and the complicated development of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021, only 123 more doctors were recruited [89 public sector and 34 private sector doctors], the ratio of doctors/ten thousand people is only 7.5/ten thousand people.

In the coming time, the Provincial People's Committee will continue to recruit, train and foster medical staff, doctors and propose the Central Government to increase the staffing of the Health sector for the province, to meet the health care requirements of the people.

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee informed more, through the practice of pandemic prevention and control, the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial People's Committee have taken steps to strengthen and consolidate the grassroots health system, preventive medicine and incentive mechanism for non-public healthcare, especially healthcare in industrial parks, industrial clusters and enterprises. Specifically, establishing Mobile medical stations, Medical stations in industrial parks, and polyclinics in industrial parks and modernizing medical examination and treatment activities.

In response to the interest of voters and people in the management of the health sector, especially in the price management of medical supplies and medical services, Mr. Vo Van Minh said that for public medical examination and treatment facilities, the Provincial People's Committee has directed the Department of Health to implement for medical examination and treatment facilities as regulated in Circular no. 16/2021/TT-BYT dated November 08, 2021 of the Ministry of Health prescribing prices for SARS-CoV-2 testing services. Non-public medical facilities that are eligible to conduct Covid-19 testing according to regulations must publicize prices according to the provisions of the Law on Prices. The Department of Health has requested non-public medical units not to take advantage of the pandemic situation to increase the price of testing services, at the same time, to decide on price levels, declare prices, and list prices in accordance with regulations.

In the coming time, the Provincial People's Committee will continue to direct the Department of Health to coordinate with relevant branches to strengthen post-inspection, inspection, supervision and strictly handle violations that take advantage of the pandemic to increase service prices; inspect and control SARS-CoV-2 testing products of unknown origin, taking advantage of the pandemic situation to increase prices, set prices, ensuring quality and market prices.

Improving public administrative reform indicators

Mr. Vo Van Minh emphasized, right after the results of the Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index [PAPI] and a set of indicators measuring the province's executive, management and competitiveness capacity, such as: Provincial Competitiveness Index [PCI], Public Administration Reform Index [PAR INDEX], Readiness Index forInformation and Communications Technology[ICT] development and application were announced, the Provincial People's Committee has issued a series of directives to focus on expeditiously analyzing, evaluating and reviewing the low indicators and criteria. Strengthening the dissemination and education of the law, providing guidance and providing adequate and timely information to the people; guiding procedures, promptly solving problems, complaints and recommendations of the people; creating favorable conditions for people to monitor, reflect and participate in government building. Well performing the publicity and transparency of administrative procedures, planning information, land use plans; price bracket for land compensation and recovery; the collection and expenditure of the commune budget, etc.; improving the quality of public services.

Simultaneously, training, fostering and improving qualifications associated with regular education and improving civil service ethics for officials, civil servants and public employees, creating a change in awareness, spirit and attitude in performing tasks and serving the people.

Reported by Phuong Chi - Yen Nhi - Quoc Chien -Translated by Nguyen Trang

​Simultaneously deploying solution groups

Answering the question of delegate Nguyen Ngoc Van - The delegation of Tan Uyen Town about necessary solutions to support enterprises in restoring production and business activities in the new situation, Mr. Nguyen Thanh Toan said that the recent pandemic period has been a great difficulty for the political system, people and enterprises. Up to now, the pandemic has basically been controlled, implementing the motto of "living together safely with Covid-19". However, difficulties still exist and cannot be overcome in a short time.

​Mr. Nguyen Thanh Toan - Director of the Department of Industry and Trade answers questions at the meeting

In order to support enterprises to gradually restore production and business activities in the new situation, the Industry and Trade branch will simultaneously deploy groups of short-term and long-term solutions. Specifically, short-term and urgent solutions for the socio-economic recovery period, such as organizing the well implementation of regulations on pandemic adaptation and response in the new situation for the fields managed by the branch. Collaborating with the Health branch to improve the capacity of the health system through enterprises and communities taking responsibility in testing and treating F0, forming a Mobile medical station, etc. Ensuring safe operation of pandemic prevention and control when reopening the entire distribution system, including: Traditional markets, shops, commercial centers; ensuring to prepare the source of goods and meet the demand for goods, especially on the occasion of the Nham Dan Lunar New Year 2022.

The branch will also actively develop scenarios to cope with the risk of pandemic that may develop more complicated, associated with plans to regulate goods circulation, and organize production activities of enterprises. Inspecting and supervising the implementation of the set of criteria for assessing the pandemic prevention and control safety for enterprises and units under the task of state management of the branch, promptly detecting and guiding shortcomings and difficulties of enterprises to propose relevant levels and branches to remove and solve.

For the group of long-term solutions, according to Mr. Toan, the province is interested in restoring the supply chain from circulation to production and distribution. Ensuring smooth circulation in the province and between Binh Duong and other localities, including having a plan for pandemic outbreaks again by building a close and smooth coordination mechanism among localities and the unified direction of the Government, Ministries and Central branches. Periodically advising provincial leaders to dialogue with enterprises to remove obstacles and difficulties, in which promoting the role of bridging of Trade associations, Enterprise associations.

Improving and forming linkage chains between enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises with large enterprises, domestic enterprises with foreign-invested enterprises. Continuing to accelerate the restructuring of the industry, giving priority to attracting industries using new and high technology with high added value, having a spillover effect, connecting production and supply chains.

Advising on the development of high-quality service industries, notably logistics and e-commerce activities, contributing to reducing costs and increasing competitiveness for Binh Duong enterprises on the basis of supporting investors to speed up the implementation progress, invest in building infrastructure of industrial clusters; developing the system of inland wharves and ports, building a modern logistics system ICD; continuing to advise the province to implement the roadmap for relocation and functional conversion of industrial parks and clusters in the South.

Focusing on strong application of information technology, improving the quality of official duty performance; reviewing, simplifying, and reducing the time to carry out administrative procedures; contributing to the successful implementation of e-Government and Binh Duong Smart City, accompanying enterprises in digital transformation towards the goal of completing the modern administration and digital economy, increasing the competitiveness of enterprises. Building Industry and Trade branch's database, enterprise database and building a future supply chain ecosystem.

Stimulating the labor market

Responding to delegates' questions about solutions to support enterprises in restoring labor resources after production activities return to the new normal, Mr. Bui Minh Tri - Head of the Provincial Industrial Zones Authority said that so far, 422,499 workers have returned to work in industrial parks, accounting for 87% of the total number of workers before the Covid-19 pandemic. Thus, the number of workers in industrial parks who have not returned to work compared to before the Covid-19 pandemic is 63,000 [accounting for 13% of the number of workers before the Covid-19 pandemic].

Faced with the situation of enterprises returning to production in the new normal, provincial leaders visited provinces in the Mekong Delta, 3 provinces in the Central Highlands and Quang Nam province to discuss coordination with Binh Duong province to support workers returning to Binh Duong to work. The Provincial Industrial Zones Authority has also coordinated with the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, the Provincial Confederation of Labor and enterprises to implement measures to support enterprises. Continuing to survey and grasp the production and business situation of enterprises, especially the labor needs of enterprises to have a plan to coordinate branches in supporting enterprises.

Binh Duong has many policies to attract workers back to the province to work

The Provincial Industrial Zones Authority has also directed industrial park investors to set up and operate Mobile medical stations in industrial parks to take care of the health of workers in general and participate in the treatment of workers infected with Covid-19 in particular. Up to now, most industrial parks have Mobile medical stations. The Authority will continue to suggest that investors pay attention to directing Medical Stations in industrial parks to promote their role in Covid-19 treatment in industrial parks.

At the same time, directing enterprises in the industrial park to pay attention to strengthening the medical section at the enterprise according to regulations, focus on taking care of the material and spiritual life of workers, ensure the legitimate rights and interests of workers, especially take care of accommodation conditions for workers, actively coordinate with the Authority and local health authorities in the Covid-19 prevention and control to ensure the full implementation of rights for workers, ensure that 100% of workers, including those from localities returning to work in enterprises, are fully vaccinated, and Covid-19 infected cases are supported and treated according to regulations.

In the long term, the province has launched a program of worker housing, social housing, and upgrading boarding houses with the policy of building 1 million housing units for workers at reasonable prices to create conditions for workers to have stable accommodation.

Reported by Mai Xuan - Quoc Chien - Translated by Nguyen Trang

​During the day, the province recorded 645 cases through RT-PCR testing and had full epidemiological information; 18 patients died.

Number of Covid-19 cases through RT-PCR test on December 7, 2021

Number of new F0 patients during the day: 5,677 patients [treatment facility: 265 patients; at home: 5,412 patients].

Since the 4th pandemic wave, Binh Duong province has recorded 285,134 cases of Covid-19 [through RT-PCR test]; 2,838 deaths.

Treatment facilities throughout the province are treating: 2,489 patients [1st floor: 1,192 patients, 2nd floor: 942 patients and 3rd floor: 355 patients]. Number of critical ill patients requiring oxygen: 557 patients.

Cumulatively, the province has vaccinated 4,285,831 doses/4,803,800 doses of the distributed Covid-19 vaccine [2,457,288 1st doses and 1,828,543 2nd doses]; 247,273 doses were administered to subjects aged 12-17 years [of which 131,541 doses were given to subjects 15-17 years old and 115,732 doses were given to subjects 12-14 years old].

There are currently 162 Mobile medical stations in the province [including 99 Mobile medical stations in communes, wards and townships; 43 Mobile medical stations in industrial zones; 20 mobile medical teams of Military Medicine].

Reported by Mai Xuan- Translated by Nguyen Trang

​Accordingly, from December 2021, an additional dose of Covid-19 vaccine will be administered to people 18 years of age and older, priority given to people aged 50 years and over who have received the full basic dose [2 injections] with moderate and severe immunodeficiency such as organ transplant recipients, cancer, HIV, being on immunosuppressive medication or having been on treatment within the past 6 months, etc.

Using the same vaccine as the basic dose or Pfizer and giving an additional dose at least 28 days after the last injection of the basic dose if there are enough vaccines.

In addition, booster doses of Covid-19 vaccine should be given to people aged 18 years or older who have received the full basic dose or additional dose, with priority given to people with underlying diseases, people who need long-term care at medical facilities, people aged 50 years or older, those who directly test, care for and treat Covid-19 patients, medical staff, frontline participants in the fight against the pandemic.

If the basic or additional doses are of the same vaccine, a booster dose of the same or Pfizer vaccine will be given; if previously vaccinated with different vaccines, a booster dose with Pfizer vaccine can be given. If the basic or additional dose is Sinopharm's Vero Cell vaccine, a booster dose of the same type or Pfizer vaccine or AstraZeneca vaccine can be given. Injecting 1 booster dose at least 6 months after the last injection of the basic or additional dose.

Vaccines that have been approved and distributed by the Ministry of Health in Binh Duong include AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Vero Cell.

Reported by Doan Trang- Translated by Nguyen Trang

​Politburo member, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh; Politburo member, Head of the Central Economic Commission Tran Tuan Anh; Politburo member, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council Nguyen Xuan Thang co-chaired the Forum.

Attending at Binh Duong bridge point were Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao - Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Mr. Vo Van Minh - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee and leaders of departments and branches.

This is the third time, the Central Economic Commission organizes the Forum. The annual forums attract the special attention of the domestic and international community, contributing to advising on the formulation of the Party's guidelines and lines on the country's socio-economic development, including those of proactively participating in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The forum is especially important in organizing the implementation of the Resolution of the 13th Party Congress, specifically the goals related to industrialization and modernization of the country.

Delegates attend at Binh Duong bridge point

The forum focuses on two important foundational contents: In the context of the complicated development of the Covid-19 epidemic, the coming post-Covid-19, it is necessary to take action to continue to overcome and make good the existing damage, difficulties, and shortcomings. From there, realizing the goal of sustainable development and in the direction of industrialization and modernization as the Party's Resolution has set out for the coming period. At the same time, inheriting the guidelines and views on industrialization and modernization in the previous congresses, continuing to research to develop a new Resolution of the Central Government on industrialization and modernization to 2030, with a vision to 2045.

The forum listened to the Ministry of Planning and Investment present a policy framework for sustainable socio-economic recovery and development associated with the Covid-19 prevention and control strategy. Accordingly, there are 5 main groups of tasks and solutions: Implementing the roadmap to open the economy in association with pandemic prevention and control; social security; supporting the recovery of enterprises, cooperatives and business households; developing infrastructure, unlocking resources for socialization investment and development; perfecting mechanisms and policies, administrative reform, and improving the business investment environment.

Dr. Mary C.Hallward-Driemeier Senior Economic Adviser on Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation, World Bank [WB] gave an overview of the global economic future and policy suggestions for Vietnam. 03 global trends in the coming time: Industry 4.0 is accelerating but unevenly across industries, fields and segments of global value chains [GVCs]; Globalization and GVC models are adjusting to, rising populism, trade tensions, as well as broader concerns about resilience and adaptability to shocks; service digitization is also accelerating, especially with a deeper level of digitalization.

Also at the Forum, experts, delegates and leaders of ministries and branches presented presentations on industrialization in the digital era; innovation for recovery and development in the post-Covid-19 era; suggestions on the Policy Framework for sustainable socio-economic recovery and development in association with the Covid-19 prevention and control strategy; recommendations on models and policies to promote industrialization and modernization on the basis of science, technology and innovation, etc.

Speaking at the Forum, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh assessed that at the Forum, experts, delegates, and leaders of ministries and branches made many profound recommendations and solutions of strategic importance, contributing to advising on the development of policies on socio-economic development of the country, including guidelines and policies to actively participate in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Vietnam is implementing two parallel programs on policy of sustainable socio-economic recovery and development and Covid-19 prevention and control. The socio-economic recovery and development in the coming time needs two factors: internal resources [people, nature, culture] are identified as long-term strategies and external resources [capital, science and technology, human resources] are of great significance and have a breakthrough, etc.

Reported by Yen Nhi - Translated by Nguyen Trang

​During the day, the province recorded 226 cases through RT-PCR testing and had full epidemiological information; 19 patients died. Number of new F0 patients during the day: 1,621 patients [treatment facility: 197 patients; at home: 1,424 patients].

Since the 4th pandemic wave, Binh Duong province has recorded 284,489 cases of Covid-19 [through RT-PCR test]; 2,820 deaths.

Number of Covid-19 cases through RT-PCR test on December 6, 2021

Treatment facilities throughout the province are treating 1,860 patients. Number of critically ill patients requiring oxygen: 165 patients.

Cumulatively, the province has vaccinated 4,284,707 doses/4,715,100 doses of the distributed Covid-19 vaccine [2,457,263 1st doses and 1,827,444 2nd doses]; 247,091 doses were administered to subjects aged 12-17 years [of which 169,876 doses were given to subjects 15-17 years old and 77,215 doses were given to subjects 12-14 years old].

There are currently 162 Mobile medical stations in the province [including 99 Mobile medical stations in communes, wards and townships; 43 Mobile medical stations in industrial zones; 20 mobile medical teams of Military Medicine].

Reported by Yen Nhi- Translated by Nguyen Trang

​​Attending the program were Mr. Nguyen Van Loc - Member of Provincial Standing Party Committee, Head of Commission for Mass Mobilization of Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front.

Speaking at the program, Ms. Nguyen Hoang Bao Tram - Vice President of the Provincial CF said that the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic has caused heavy losses to the entire country, including Binh Duong. Along with the entire provincial political system, Binh Duong Trade Union at all levels has made great efforts to take care and support workers with many practical activities. Through the support packages of the Trade Union, the Provincial CF and the Trade Union at all levels have focused on timely support for workers affected by the Covid-19 pandemic with an amount of over 307 billion VND; established Centers to receive and distribute goods and necessities from localities, organizations and individuals to support workers over 640 tons of goods; promptly visited and encouraged the children, giving them confectionery, milk, diapers, etc. when they had to undergo quarantine.

Up to now, Binh Duong has returned to the new normal, the lives of people and workers have gradually stabilized. However, the pandemic left many consequences. Many families had to be separated and lost the main breadwinner in the house; Children have lost their parents and babies born are not allowed to lie in the loving arms of their parents, not to drink the first drop of milk in their lives. Understanding that difficulty and loss, the Trade union levels in the province have been and will focus a lot of resources to work with all levels of government, mass organizations and enterprises to accompany workers and workers' children.

At the program, the Provincial CF gave savings books to 66 children of Trade union members who died due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Each savings book is worth 10 million VND for the orphan whosemother or father has died and 20 million VND for the orphan whosebothparentshave died.​

Mr. Nguyen Van Loc - Member of Provincial Standing Party Committee, Head of Commission for Mass Mobilization of Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, gives savings books to the children

On this occasion, Vietinbank supported each case 500,000 VND. In particular, 15 children with extremely difficult circumstances were supported by the Binh Duong Young Entrepreneurs Association with 03 million VND each case.​

Ms. Nguyen Kim Loan - Chairman of the Provincial CF gives the savings books to the children

In the coming time, the Provincial CF will continue to complete the application procedures to give the "Trade Union Savings Book" to more than 40 cases of orphans who are children of Trade union members who died due to the Covid-19.

Orphans who are children of Trade Union members who died due to the Covid-19 receive savings books

On behalf of the provincial leaders, Mr. Nguyen Van Loc conveyed his deep condolences to the family whose loved one died due to Covid-19 infection and shared with the family damaged and affected by the pandemic. He suggested the Provincial CF and Trade Unions at all levels continue to closely coordinate with branches and localities to promote propaganda and mobilize workers to actively implement regulations on Covid-19 prevention and control; effectively organize models, programs and activities to support disadvantaged workers affected by the Covid-19 to share, help people stabilize their lives, create peace of mind, trust and raise awareness about pandemic prevention and control. At the same time, calling on philanthropists, enterprises and individuals inside and outside the province to continue to support resources to take care of and support the poor and those facing difficulties due to the Covid-19, to soon stabilize their lives.

Reported by Doan Trang - Translated by Nguyen Trang

​​The forum was organized in the form of face-to-face combined with online at 57 domestic and international bridge points.

Attending at Binh Duong bridge point were Mr. Pham Trong Nhan - Deputy Head of Provincial Delegation of National Assembly Deputies and provincial National Assembly deputies; representatives of provincial departments, committees and branches.

Proposing fiscal and monetary policies

Speaking at the Forum, domestic and international experts said that the Covid-19 pandemic has severely affected the socio-economic development of all countries in the world, including Vietnam. Over the past time, the Government of Vietnam has promptly issued many solutions and policies to support and solve difficulties and problems of people, workers and enterprises. Support solutions are integrated with the development policy of priority sectors and fields, especially supporting sectors and fields that are heavily affected by the pandemic. At the same time, the implementation of policy solutions has contributed to stabilizing the macro-economy, ensuring social security, mitigating the impact of the pandemic, keeping people safe and stabilizing the society. This is an important foundation for the process of socio-economic recovery and development associated with pandemic control.

Delegates attend at Binh Duong bridge point

However, the supporting solutions have been issued mainly to solve short-term difficulties of people and enterprises, not focusing on stimulating consumption, aggregate supply and aggregate demand, or supporting the development of the domestic market, restoring supply chains, production, and labor. The implementation of some policies is still slow, the disbursement rate is low, and some policy groups have tight conditions, making it difficult for beneficiaries to access, leading to low policy implementation efficiency.

Therefore, experts recommend that in the coming time, priority should be given to continuing to effectively prevent and control the Covid-19 pandemic, in parallel with speeding up the vaccination process. Soon developing and implementing a Master Program on economic recovery and development during and after the Covid-19 pandemic, divided into phases and integrated throughout the requirement to promote economic institutional reform in parallel with economic recovery. Applying flexible macroeconomic policies according to scenarios to cope with adverse developments of the world and regional economies. Speeding up the implementation of the issued support packages for people and enterprises; regularly evaluating the results of the implementation of support packages and immediately removing obstacles in the implementation process.

Dr. Can Van Luc - Chief Economist of BIDV, member of the Vietnam National Fiscal and Monetary Policy Advisory Council and other expert groups proposed a support package including fiscal, monetary, and social security together with policies amounted to 843,845 billion VND, accounting for 10.38% of GDP [announced value].

Of these, fiscal policy accounts for the largest share in the structure with 8.34%, equivalent to 678,395 billion VND; monetary policy is 65,000 billion VND [accounting for 0.8%], social security policy is 12,800 billion VND [accounting for 0.16%], other policies is 37,650 billion VND [0.46%]; Investment of State Capital Investment Corporation [SCIC] in enterprises is 50,000 billion VND [accounting for 0.6%].

According to experts, to promote the implementation of the above priorities, the role of the National Assembly is very important. In the coming time, the National Assembly may consider a number of issues such as: Promoting law-making to ensure timeliness, quality, and reduce overlap, thereby strengthening the legal framework for production and business activities, including new economic activities. Regularly listening to the voice of voters in localities throughout the country; strengthening supervision, especially thematic supervision of areas of special interest to voters; accompanying the Government to remove difficulties and obstacles for enterprises and people, rationally and effectively mobilizing resources to promote socio-economic recovery and development. Continuing to accompany and set requirements for the Government to more effectively implement free trade agreements [FTAs] in the new context; which focuses on strengthening the propaganda and dissemination of FTAs; continuing to review and perfect the legal system and policies to fully implement the commitments in the FTAs; assessing the competitiveness of economic sectors and proposing directions for improvement; simplifying administrative procedures; Government enforcement agencies regularly consult the enterprise community, etc.

Supporting enterprises to restore production

Providing information on the operation of the enterprise recently, Dr. Dau Anh Tuan - Head of the Legal Department of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry [VCCI] said, the Covid-19 pandemic wave from April 2021 to now has had a serious impact on the production and business activities of Vietnamese enterprises. The survey results conducted by VCCI from the beginning of July to the middle of September 2021 with nearly 3,000 respondents operating in 63 provinces and cities of Vietnam showed that up to 93.9% of enterprises rated the impact of the pandemic at "completely negative" and "mostly negative". This number is up from 87.2% of the 2020 survey. Specifically, in the 2021 survey, about 60% of enterprises said the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic was "mostly negative". Notably, the percentage of enterprises that considered the Covid-19 pandemic to have a "completely negative" impact is up to 34%, significantly higher than 15% of the 2020 survey. The September 2021 survey also recorded that only about 4% of enterprises were not affected by the pandemic and less than 2% of enterprises said they had grasped the opportunity to develop.

Almost enterprises in all fields and industries are facing difficulties due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The survey showed that industries that frequently require direct communication or involve the movement of people were most negatively impacted by the pandemic, specifically, 99% of enterprises in the fields of education and training, accommodation and food services, healthcare and social assistance, etc. were affected at "mostly negative" and "completely negative" levels. The impact level of the Covid-19 was lowest among enterprises in industries such as production and distribution of electricity, gas, hot water and water supply, and waste treatment, but also 88.2% and 76.5% of enterprises in these industries, respectively, reported being negatively impacted.

Dr. Dau Anh Tuan - Head of Legal Department of Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry [VCCI] speaks at the Forum

Proposing solutions in the medium and long term to support enterprises to restore production and business, adapt to the "new normal", according to Dr. Dau Anh Tuan, in order to restart the economy, in addition to focusing on manufacturing enterprises and enterprises in the supply chain, it is also necessary to note support policies suitable for individual business households, micro and small enterprises. These subjects are strongly affected by the tightening measures to prevent and control the pandemic, and their self-healing ability is poor, but they play an important part in reducing the pressure on social security, which is one of the driving forces to stimulate demand in the future.

Also according to experts' suggestions, in order for production and business activities to be restarted and quickly accelerated, regulations on pandemic prevention and control as well as a roadmap for loosing the distancing and reopening, there needs to be coordination and agreement among localities to ensure the recovery and stability of the supply chain, enterprises take the initiative in making suitable production and business plans, minimizing the risk of supply disruptions, not ensuring order progress, causing great damage to enterprises.

In the medium and long term, in addition to parallel implementation of supporting policies on taxes, fees and credits, restructuring policies towards sustainable development also need to be be built right now. Specifically, continuing to promote solutions to improve the business environment, promote public investment, develop infrastructure to ensure safety and security for production and business activities of enterprises; having a clear economic recovery roadmap to support enterprises and the economy; having a scenario of long-term coexistence with the pandemic that is feasible and resilient to enterprises. Improving logistics infrastructure as well as related administrative procedures to facilitate transport and import and export activities, especially for agricultural and aquatic products to increase the competitiveness of Vietnamese goods. Continuing to review and adjust investment incentive policies to attract a wave of high-quality foreign investment and investment in supporting industries. Identifying digital economic development as the growth engine of the economy, creating a mechanism to promote e-commerce [electronic trading platform, technology transportation, online wholesale market, etc.]; supporting innovation activities; supporting enterprises in digital transformation.

Ensuring social security and labor supply

According to statistics, in 2021, the Covid-19 pandemic has affected 9.1 million workers. In the first 9 months of 2021, more than 10 million workers in enterprises were affected. In which, about 144,000 workers lost their jobs, 2.1 million people had to temporarily stop working, suspending production and business activities, about 3 million people had to reduce working hours, take unpaid leave for extended work, take unpaid leave alternately, and about 840,000 people were forced to change their job form. In particular, about 4.7 million workers in enterprises have had their incomes reduced. In the informal sector, about 3.5 million workers have their income reduced, accounting for nearly 90% of the informal sector workers affected by Covid-19.

Facing the above situation, experts proposed, to have a policy to restore and develop the labor market, in which attention is paid to the connection of job supply demand, especially providing quick, timely and convenient job information for workers to access job opportunities, support packages of the State and employers to "retain" and attract workers to return to the city to work. Promoting and having incentive mechanisms to encourage employers to come up with solutions to attract workers to work at the enterprise; renovating and improving the actual effectiveness of policies on vocational training and vocational skills training to maintain jobs for workers and adapt to and anticipate digital transformation. Developing labor standards and mechanisms to adjust new labor relations in line with the Covid-19 situation.

It is necessary to have many policies to ensure social security and recover the labor market after Covid-19

At the same time, there are preferential support policies for enterprises, agricultural cooperatives and women-owned business households to recover after the pandemic. There are fundamental solutions to narrow the gender gap in education, training, vocational training, access to information, application of science, technology, markets and business development consulting for girls and women to support the increase in the number and size of women-led enterprises.

Reforming administrative procedures of support packages in the direction of simplicity, speed, timeliness, application of information technology for easy access by people, workers, enterprises, and disadvantaged subjects. Continuing to prioritize support for vulnerable workers, paying special attention to taking care of vulnerable and freelance workers who lost their jobs during the quarantine period for pandemic prevention and control such as: mobile lottery ticket sellers, porters, teachers at private preschools, hairdressing and hair-washing service workers; domestic workers, hired workers at small business establishments, etc.

Studying the decentralization of production and population in some big cities to rural areas with a large number of workers for economic development, along with improving and developing the infrastructure system, especially transport infrastructure to overcome the negative impacts of pandemic such as Covid-19 on the Southern economic and industrial centers [Ho Chi Minh City, Binh Duong, Dong Nai] over the past time.

Reported by Mai Xuan- Translated by Nguyen Trang

​During the day, the province recorded 355 cases through RT-PCR testing and had full epidemiological information; 09 patients died. Number of new F0 patients during the day: 1,052 patients [treatment facility: 117 patients; at home: 935 patients].

Number of Covid-19 cases through RT-PCR test on December 5, 2021

Since the 4th pandemic wave, Binh Duong province has recorded 284,263 cases of Covid-19 [through RT-PCR test]; 2,801 deaths.

Treatment facilities throughout the province are treating 2,600 patients [1st floor: 1,612 patients, 2nd floor: 624 patients and 3rd floor: 364 patients]. Number of critically ill patients requiring oxygen: 165 patients.

Cumulatively, the province has vaccinated 4,269,835 doses/4,715,100 doses of the distributed Covid-19 vaccine [2,444,734 1st doses and 1,825,101 2nd doses]; 241,882 doses were administered to subjects aged 12-17 years [of which 168,759 doses were given to subjects 15-17 years old and 73,123 doses were given to subjects 12-14 years old].

There are currently 162 Mobile medical stations in the province [including 99 Mobile medical stations in communes, wards and townships; 43 Mobile medical stations in industrial zones; 20 mobile medical teams of Military Medicine].

Reported by Phuong Chi-Translated by Nguyen Trang​

​During the day, the province recorded 319 cases through RT-PCR testing and had full epidemiological information; 18 patients died. Number of new F0 patients during the day: 925 patients [treatment facility: 206 patients; at home: 719 patients].

Since the 4th pandemic wave, Binh Duong province has recorded 283,908 cases of Covid-19 [through RT-PCR test]; 2,792 deaths.

Number of Covid-19 cases through RT-PCR test on December 4, 2021

Treatment facilities throughout the province are treating 3,298 patients [1st floor: 2,296 patients, 2nd floor: 623 patients and 3rd floor: 379 patients]. Number of critically ill patients requiring oxygen: 159 patients.

Cumulatively, the province has vaccinated 4,263,267 doses/4,715,100 doses of the distributed Covid-19 vaccine [2,443,992 1st doses and 1,819,275 2nd doses]; 229,116 doses were administered to subjects aged 12-17 years [of which 166,305 doses were given to subjects 15-17 years old and 62,811 doses were given to subjects 12-14 years old].

There are currently 162 Mobile medical stations in the province [including 99 Mobile medical stations in communes, wards and townships; 43 Mobile medical stations in industrial zones; 20 mobile medical teams of Military Medicine].​

Reported by Yen Nhi - Translated by Nguyen Trang

​​Attending were Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Mr. Vo Van Minh - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Mr. Pham Van Chanh - Member of Provincial Standing Party Committee, Chairman of Provincial People's Council together with members of the Provincial Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control; leaders of districts, towns and cities; typical units, enterprises, organizations and individuals in the Covid-19 prevention and control.

Going in the right direction in pandemic prevention and control

As reported by the Provincial Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control, the 4th pandemic wave took place over 6 months. Facing extremely complicated developments of the pandemic situation, the province has synchronously implemented many solutions under the direction of the Government and the Prime Minister with the motto of taking communes, wards and towns as "fortresses", people as "soldiers", service centers and subjects of pandemic prevention and control; implemented measures to encircle and narrow the "red zone"; expand, protect the "green zone", control and prevent infection sources, new infection chains, etc. Up to now, most of the community outbreaks in the province have been controlled. Especially since the implementation of the Government's Resolution no. 128, the pandemic situation has continued to have many positive changes. Only in the last 2 weeks of November [from November 16, 2021 to November 30, 2021] the number of new cases decreased by 45.8%; cases detected in the community decreased by 39.3% and 44% of deaths compared to 01 month ago.

With the spirit of "safe, flexible adaptation and effective control over the Covid-19 pandemic", localities have made efforts to effectively control the pandemic, restore production and business, and develop socio-economy, bring people's daily life gradually back to the new normal. Up to now, Binh Duong has 9,638/12,894 industrial production enterprises registered to operate again, reaching 74.7%, with a total number of workers 872,000/1,068,000, accounting for 81.6% of workers.

Regarding social security, in addition to the general policies of the Central Government, the province also promptly issued decisions to reassure people. Up to now, Binh Duong has supported 3,834,960 turns of people, with the amount of 2,646,075 billion VND according to Resolution no. 68/ND-CP, Resolution no. 04/2021/NQ-HDND and Decision no. 12/2021/QD-UBND.

At the same time, more than 14,000 units with over 1 million workers are entitled to the policy of reducing the insurance premiums for occupational accidents and diseases and the policy of temporarily suspending payments to the retirement and survivorship fund. For the policy to support workers and employers affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, over 651 billion VND has been approved to support 9,776 units, with over 278,000 workers, etc.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Lan Hieu - Director of Hanoi Medical University Hospital speaks at the conference

Speaking at the conference, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Lan Hieu - Director of Hanoi Medical University Hospital said that Binh Duong was on the right direction to well control the pandemic, and the province also opened up at the right time when the rate of vaccine coverage in the community was maximized. Emphasizing the role of vaccines in pandemic prevention and control, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Lan Hieu said that vaccines play an important role in contributing to pandemic control, helping to reduce the rate of aggravating patients; therefore, in the coming time, the province needs to have a policy and plan on vaccination in the new period suitable to the actual situation. "The most important issue is that the province needs to strengthen and reform the grassroots health care in terms of facilities, medicines, oxygen, and human resource training. The treatment in this period must be different from the old one, the patient must be individualized, a patient dies, forcing us to ponder; the treatment must be timely, correct and complete, in addition, the province must strengthen ICU medical staff, have policies and regimes to attract good doctors and nurses capable of treating severe patients" he emphasized.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Lan Hieu suggested that the province remove the concept of F1, F2, F3 so as not to discriminate against infected people. In particular, grassroots medical units need to be classified as F0 for early treatment or home treatment. Encouraging people to make medical declarations when detecting suspected infections, consolidating a small and compact mobile medical station, applying information technology to be ready to meet the requirements of all pandemic situations.

Actively developing response scenarios in the new situation

As assessed by the Provincial Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control, although the pandemic situation has been controlled, there are still cases of community infections with unknown sources of transmission, which pose a potential risk of a re-emergence of the pandemic, especially with the appearance of the new Omicron variant. In order to continue to closely follow the pandemic situation, proactively adapt safely, flexibly, and effectively control the Covid-19 pandemic, Binh Duong needs to develop 7 key solutions, in which the role of the health system is the pillar, the center, the key in the pandemic prevention and control. Continuing to build and perfect the grassroots health system into practical and effective operation; strengthening the ability to collect, treat, organizing training, improving the capacity of tracing, testing, medical quarantine and treatment in the locality; regularly updating pandemic levels in localities to adjust appropriate measures for Covid-19 prevention and control. Implementing synchronously specific measures to reduce the number of deaths from Covid-19. Each district-level unit researches and invests in building at least one F0 collection and treatment facility with an appropriate scale according to the 3-tier tower model [in addition to the existing medical centers]. Improving the treatment efficiency of the ICU for severe Covid-19 patients to reduce deaths. Traditional medical stations and mobile medical stations must have hospital beds; proactively ensure all kinds of supplies, equipment, medicines, medical oxygen, etc. and other necessary conditions to cope with pandemic levels, achieving high efficiency in treatment.

Binh Duong continues to build and perfect the grassroots health system into practical and effective operation

In 2022, establishing and putting into operation the Outpatient Emergency Center under the Binh Duong Smart City Project to support grassroots health care. Arranging, recruiting, training and fostering medical human resources to effectively promote the facilities and equipment that have been invested and built to meet the requirements in the new period. Regarding vaccination, ensuring the schedule for people to be vaccinated with 2 doses as planned; developing and implementing vaccination plans for children according to the age groups prescribed by the Ministry of Health.

Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Vo Van Minh speaks at the closing of the conference

Speaking at the closing of the conference, Mr. Vo Van Minh - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee expressed gratitude to individuals and groups that have made great contributions to the pandemic prevention and control of Binh Duong province. In order to continue to closely follow the pandemic situation, proactively adapt safely, flexibly, and effectively control the Covid-19 pandemic, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee suggested that each member of the Steering Committee for Covid-19 prevention and control at all levels, branches and localities, along with a team of officials, civil servants and public employees in the entire province should look frankly, analyze carefully, thoroughly, and comprehensively evaluate the pandemic prevention and control of each unit and locality, especially individual and collective responsibilities in the past time to orient and propose fundamental solutions, suitable to the actual conditions of each unit. The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee emphasized, implementing dual goals but must put the health and life of the people first, first of all; solutions for pandemic prevention and control need to be based on science, suitable to local realities and conditions; ensure that people are best protected against the pandemic, have access to the earliest and fastest medical services, right from the grassroots. Solutions for safe, flexible adaptation and effective control over the Covid-19 pandemic must be implemented decisively, promptly and drastically; ensure harmony between professional medical solutions with administrative, economic - social solutions. Taking pandemic prevention is basic and long-term; health care is the core force along with the army, police, etc. but must mobilize the participation of all forces and classes in society.

Mr. Nguyen Van Loi - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee [2nd from the right] and Mr. Vo Van Minh - Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, authorized by the State President, award the Third-class Labor Medals to Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Lan Hieu [far right] - Director of Hanoi Medical University Hospital and Mr. Nguyen Hoang Vu - Director of Field Hospital No. 4

Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao [2nd from the right] Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Mr. Nguyen Van Loc - Member of Provincial Standing Party Committee, Head of Commission for Mass Mobilization of Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial Committee of Vietnam Fatherland Front award the Prime Minister's Certificate of Merit to outstanding individuals in the pandemic prevention and control

At the Conference, authorized by the State President, leaders of the Provincial Party Committee and Provincial People's Committee awarded the Third-class Labor Medals to Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Lan Hieu - Director of Hanoi Medical University Hospital and Mr. Nguyen Hoang Vu - Director of Field Hospital No. 4, 06 individuals were honored to receive the Certificate of Merit from the Prime Minister; 96 collectives and 11 individuals were awarded Certificates of merit by the People's Committee for outstanding achievements in the Covid-19 prevention and control.

Provincial leaders award Certificates of Merit from the Provincial People's Committee to units with excellent achievements in the pandemic prevention and control

Provincial leaders award Certificates of merit from the Provincial People's Committee to enterprises and organizations with positive contributions to the pandemic prevention and control

Reported by Yen Nhi - Translated by Nguyen Trang

​Attending were Mr. Nguyen Van Loi - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial Delegation of the National Assembly Deputies; Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Mr. Vo Van Minh - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee and comrades in the Standing Committee, Executive Committee of Provincial Party Committee, leaders of departments, committees, branches and districts, towns and cities.

Overcoming difficult period

The conference focused on discussing and evaluating the results of socio-economic development, defense and security of Binh Duong province in 2021. Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee said that 2021 is the first year of implementing the Resolution of the 13th Party Congress, Resolution of the 11th Provincial Party Congress, also the year that Binh Duong faced many difficulties and challenges from the province's political upheaval along with the outbreak and extremely complicated developments of the 4th Covid-19 pandemic wave, which seriously affected production, business and people's lives.

In that context, the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial People's Committee have focused on leading and directing drastically, along with the efforts of all levels and branches, so far, 10/18 targets have been achieved and exceeded in the Resolution of the Provincial Party Committee in 2021; 08 targets have not been achieved but have a higher increase compared to the same period in 2020.

The GrossRegionalDomestic Product [GRDP] in the first 6 months of the year reached 7.23%, but due to the impact of the pandemic, the whole year only reached 2.79% [in 2020, GRDP grew by 6.91%, the Resolution set the target to increase by 8.5 - 8.7%]. GRDP per capita is 153.6 million VND [in 2020 it was 151 million VND, the Resolution set 161.8 million VND]. The economic structure has shifted in a positive direction, with industries - services - agriculture - products taxeslesssubsidieson production, with the respective proportions 68.12% - 21.42% - 3.1% - 7.36%.

The industrial production index is estimated to increase by 4.5% [in 2020 it increased by 8.02%, the plan in 2021 increased by 9.2%]. Import and export growth is high compared to the same period last year. Export turnover is estimated at 31 billion 500 million USD [in 2020 it reached 27 billion 443 million USD], up 13.5%. Import turnover is estimated at 24 billion 600 million USD [in 2020 it reached 21 billion 446 million USD], up 14.7%. Trade surplus reached 6.8 billion USD. Total budget revenue is estimated at 61,200 billion VND, reaching 104% of the Provincial People's Council's estimate; total expenditure to balance the local budget is estimated at 32,201 billion VND, reaching 124% of the estimate.

Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Hoang Thao reports on the results of socio-economic development, defense and security of Binh Duong province in 2021

Facing complicated developments of the Covid-19 pandemic, Binh Duong focused on pandemic prevention and control with the motto "People's lives and health are first, foremost and most important". The province has mobilized the entire political system, people and enterprises to participate in pandemic prevention and control; sent 30 leaders at the deputy department and branch levels, more than 1,200 provincial officials and more than 1,000 teachers and officials of the Education branch to support localities for pandemic prevention and control. In particular, there were more than 60 support delegations with more than 4,000 doctors, nurses, volunteers in central agencies, provinces and cities, more than 25,000 police and army soldiers participating in pandemic prevention and control. In a very short time, the province has directed and mobilized a huge resource in terms of facilities; enterprises have invested in building field hospitals, concentrated quarantine areas with unprecedented scale, meeting about 100,000 beds for F0 quarantine and concentrated treatment; quickly invested in completing and putting into operation 02 emergency resuscitation hospitals with more than 1,000 beds to treat Covid-19 patients turned severe, contributing to reducing the number of deaths.

In addition to the central government's policies, the province has promptly issued support policies and disbursed support packages for those affected by the pandemic. As of November 13, 2021, the province has provided support for more than 3.9 million cases, with an amount of 2,897 billion VND.

With "Making the most of all resources and time, focusing on vaccination quickly; both doing and learning from experience, combining creativity in pandemic prevention and control", Binh Duong has overcome extremely difficult and dangerous period. Up to now, the pandemic situation in the province has been initially controlled, the number of new cases has decreased, the number of patients discharged from the hospital has increased, the entire province has moved to a state of flexible, safe adaptation and effective control over the Covid-19 pandemic in the spirit of the Government's Resolution no. 128/NQ-CP.

Efforts to restore socio-economy, maintain position

Discussing at the conference, the delegates pointed out a number of limitations and difficulties in socio-economic development in 2021. Due to the impact of the pandemic, many enterprises in the province have temporarily suspended business and operations; total social investment capital decreased by 4.3% compared to 2020. Disbursement of public investment capital was low compared to the plan, only 37.6%, many key projects had to stop construction because of the pandemic situation; planning, compensation for site clearance was still slow, etc.

In addition, the grassroots health system, preventive medicine and treatment capacity of medical facilities in the province revealed limitations after the recent pandemic. The Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index [PAPI] is among the lowest in the country.

Binh Duong is determined to implement solutions for socio-economic recovery and development

Talking about solutions for socio-economic development in the coming time, Mr. Vo Van Minh - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee emphasized, in 2020, in addition to the task of pandemic prevention and control, the province will focus on urgently implementing the provincial planning and district land use planning, the planning of industrial parks and clusters for the 2021-2025 period; implement a housing and urban development program associated with building a Smart City. Continuing to maintain the "new normal" to ensure safety and efficiency, and prevent the outbreak of the pandemic again. Focusing on removing difficulties for enterprises, especially labor resources, towards restoring production, business, and goods circulation. At the same time, focusing on cultural development, ensuring social security, political security, social order and safety; promoting administrative reform.

Agreeing with the direction and tasks set out in 2022, Ms. Nguyen Thi My Hang - Secretary of the Phu Giao District Party Committee said that the district will focus on implementing solutions to develop hi-tech agriculture, in which focus on fostering skills in applying science and technology to farmers, working with departments and branches to support farmers to connect to the market to find stable output, and to support treatment of diseases on citrus trees.

According to Mr. Vo Hoang Ngan - Director of the Department of Construction, it is expected that in the 2021-2025 period, the province will develop more than 20 million m2 of residential floors, striving to build 1 million social housing units for workers. At the same time, encouraging households and individuals to upgrade rental boarding houses to ensure a green, clean and beautiful place to live, contributing to stabilizing the life of workers.

Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Loi concludes the conference

Concluding the conference, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Loi highly appreciated the results of socio-economic indicators of the province in 2021. In a difficult situation, the results achieved are very meaningful and encouraging, which is the foundation for all branches and levels to continue making efforts to bring Binh Duong to stability and continue to develop commensurate with its position. The Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee asked the entire political system not to be negligent, subjective, and make the best efforts in pandemic control. Improving the health system, creating conditions for F0 to access treatment quickly and reduce deaths. In addition, it is necessary to firmly grasp the situation and solve the "bottlenecks and knots" for enterprises to restore production. Mobilizing social resources, attracting foreign investment; investing in infrastructure which is dynamic and pervasive [National Highway 13, My Phuoc - Tan Van Road, Ring Road 3, Ring Road 4, etc.]. The Secretary emphasized that the fields of culture and society must be focused on investment to match the economic development of the province, immediately, promoting propaganda and organizing activities to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the re-establishment of the province, happy spring, welcome the Lunar New Year in accordance with the pandemic situation. Well performing the job of recruiting soldiers for military service in 2022. The Secretary asked branches and levels to promote well their roles and responsibilities, lead and direct the organization of 2022 goals and tasks, especially pandemic control, economic recovery, striving complete the targets set out by the Resolution of the 11th Provincial Party Congress.

Reported by Phuong Chi-Translated by Nguyen Trang

​​Attending at Binh Duong bridge point were Mr. Vo Van Minh - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Mr. Pham Ngoc Thuan - General Director of Becamex IDC; representatives of leaders of provincial departments, committees and branches.

At the US bridge point, there were Ms. Le Thi Hai Van - Economic Counselor in charge of FDI investment, Vietnam Embassy in the US; Mr. Max Sutherland - President and General Director of World Trade Center Atlanta; Ms. Dawn Townsend - Senior Director of Trade and Investment, Atlanta Department of Economic Development, Georgia Governor's Office; Ms. Leigh Ryan - Vice President of World Trade Center Savannah; Mr. Scott Ellyson - CEO and co-founder of East West Manufacturing and nearly 100 US enterprises.

Creating the most favorable investment environment for enterprises

Speaking at the opening of the conference, Mr. Vo Van Minh - Chairman of Binh Duong Provincial People's Committee affirmed that, after more than 25 years of establishing bilateral relations since 1995, the US and Vietnam have become reliable partners and have an increasingly active and comprehensive cooperation relationship in all fields. Vietnam is the 10th largest trading partner of the US and an important link in the global supply chain; Vietnam is also a major importer from the US with materials and goods to support the development of the economy. Up to now, the US ranks 11th out of 141 countries and territories with foreign investment capital [FDI] in Vietnam with 1,135 projects and a total registered capital of more than 10 billion USD. Particularly in Binh Duong province, the US has invested in 128 projects with a total investment capital of more than 911 million USD.

Delegates attend at Binh Duong bridge point

Emphasizing the importance of the US investment promotion webinar taking place in the context that Vietnam has just experienced the 4th Covid-19 wave with impacts on all aspects of social life, especially in the provinces and cities of the Southern economic region, including Binh Duong, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said that, together with the Southern localities and enterprises, the Vietnamese Government has implemented many strong and quick measures; promptly transformed the "Zero Covid" strategy to "safe, flexible adaptation, effective control over the Covid-19 pandemic, focusing on making good use of opportunities to promote socio-economic recovery and development". Binh Duong province's government has been making efforts to accompany and create the most favorable conditions for enterprises to restore production and maintain supply chains through dialogue sessions, contact with associations and enterprises, including holding a webinar with the American Chamber of Commerce [AMCHAM], attending the Conference entitled "Meet the USA: Partnering for Reopening, Recovery and Rebound in the Southern Economic Region" in order to listen to and promptly resolve difficulties and obstacles, creating favorable conditions for US investors and enterprises to operate effectively in production and business.

In recent years, Binh Duong province's government has always paid attention to supporting the development of investment enterprises in the province through improving the investment environment, enhancing competitiveness, applying science and technology to simplify administrative procedures, deploying human resource training, building social housing, housing for workers, supplying labor sources for enterprises to invest in the province. Therefore, Binh Duong has always been evaluated as one of the leading provinces and cities in the country in socio-economic development, industrial development and attracting foreign direct investment [FDI]. Binh Duong is currently the 2nd locality in the country in terms of attracting foreign investment after Ho Chi Minh City with a total of 4,016 investment projects from 65 countries and territories with a total registered capital of more than 37 billion USD.

Enterprises believe in expanding production

At the conference, Ms. Le Thi Hai Van - Economic Counselor, in charge of FDI, Vietnam Embassy in the US introduced policies to attract foreign investment in Vietnam through a number of investment incentive programs. Accordingly, Vietnam has a strategic location in Southeast Asia, convenient waterway transport connecting with countries around the world; road transport with highways connecting local and interregional. Vietnam has an extensive cooperation relationship with international partners, participating in the signing of trade agreements; is the country with the leading innovation index in the region; always pays attention to perfecting institutions and legal regulations to create favorable conditions for foreign investors to invest in Vietnam.

Introducing the preferential policies for foreign investment in Binh Duong and industrial parks invested by Becamex, Mr. Bill Dao - Representative of Becamex IDC in the North American market said, Binh Duong is the first locality in Vietnam to deploy the construction of a Smart City; Science and Technology Industrial Park. The province gives priority to attracting investment from developed countries, leading potential partners in the world with modern management level, including US partners in high-tech, environmentally friendly industries, with little labor intensive, creating high added value; financial services, logistics; supporting industries, hi-tech agriculture and especially attracting investment in the Science and Technology Industrial Park with the goal of becoming the innovation center of the Southern Key Economic Region. When investing in Binh Duong, investors will enjoy many policies on corporate income tax, import tax, value-added tax on exported goods, etc. according to the provisions of the Investment Law. Besides, Binh Duong has a convenient geographical position in the Southern Key Economic Region; young population structure; the infrastructure is synchronously and modernly invested. The provincial government always accompanies and supports enterprises throughout the production and business process.​

Mr. Scott Ellyson - CEO and co-founder of East West Manufacturing highly appreciates Binh Duong's investment environment

Speaking at the conference, Ms. Dawn Townsend - Senior Director of Trade and Investment, Atlanta Department of Economic Development, Georgia Governor's Office, said that large US enterprises are concentrated in the state of Georgia, mainly doing business in the high-tech sector. Through research, she highly appreciates the investment environment of Vietnam, including Binh Duong. Binh Duong is an attractive destination, chosen by corporations and companies; is the leading industrial production center in Vietnam. The conference is an opportunity for US enterprises to choose and learn about the investment environment of Vietnam in general and Binh Duong province in particular.

Sharing experience in investing and operating a manufacturing company in Vietnam, Mr. Scott Ellyson - CEO and co-founder of East West Manufacturing informed, East West Manufacturing currently has 02 factories located in Vietnam - Singapore II Industrial Park. Over the time of production in Vietnam, the factory has grown more and more, so in the coming time, the Group will continue to expand 02 more factories under the "green" model with a large scale in Binh Duong to produce products according to the company's new research. He highly appreciated the attention of the Binh Duong provincial government, which has always accompanied US enterprises during the past time, especially in the recent pandemic situation, with the support of local authorities, factory workers have been fully vaccinated with 02 doses.

Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Vo Van Minh concludes the conference

Concluding the conference, on behalf of the leaders of Binh Duong province, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Vo Van Minh cordially invited US investors, enterprises and entrepreneurs to come to explore investment opportunities in Binh Duong. The provincial government is committed to always accompanying, supporting and creating the most favorable conditions for foreign investors, including US investors, maintaining regular dialogue channels with the enterprise community both at home and abroad, in order to promptly adjust policies in line with the local development interests and the legitimate interests of the enterprise community in the province.

Reported by Mai Xuan - Translated by Nguyen Trang

​During the day, the province recorded 302 cases through RT-PCR testing and had full epidemiological information; 14 patients died.

Number of Covid-19 cases through RT-PCR test on December 3, 2021

Number of new F0 patients during the day: 1,102 patients [treatment facility: 179 patients; at home: 923 patients].

Since the 4th pandemic wave, Binh Duong province has recorded 283,589 cases of Covid-19 [through RT-PCR test]; 2,774 deaths.

Treatment facilities throughout the province are treating 3,321 patients [1st floor: 2,342 patients, 2nd floor: 558 patients and 3rd floor: 421 patients]. Number of critically ill patients requiring oxygen: 166 patients.

Cumulatively, the province has vaccinated 4,258,308 doses/4,715,100 doses of the distributed Covid-19 vaccine [2,443,457 1st doses and 1,814,851 2nd doses]; 218,141 doses were administered to subjects aged 12-17 years [of which 123,142 doses were given to subjects 15-17 years old and 94,999 doses were given to subjects 12-14 years old].

There are currently 162 Mobile medical stations in the province [including 99 Mobile medical stations in communes, wards and townships; 43 Mobile medical stations in industrial zones; 20 mobile medical teams of Military Medicine].

Reported by Mai Xuan - Translated by Nguyen Trang

​During the day, the province recorded 414 cases through RT-PCR testing and had full epidemiological information; 08 patients died. Number of new F0 patients during the day: 1,275 patients [treatment facility: 165 patients; at home: 1,110 patients].

Number of Covid-19 cases through RT-PCR test on December 2, 2021

Since the 4th pandemic wave, Binh Duong province has recorded 283,287 cases of Covid-19 [through RT-PCR test]; 2,760 deaths.

Treatment facilities throughout the province are treating 3,353 patients [1st floor: 2,306 patients, 2nd floor: 615 patients and 3rd floor: 432 patients]. Number of critically ill patients requiring oxygen: 163 patients.

Cumulatively, the province has vaccinated 4,253,301 doses/4,715,100 doses of the distributed Covid-19 vaccine [2,443,099 1st doses and 1,810,202 2nd doses]; 206,987 doses were administered to subjects aged 12-17 years [of which 120,481 doses were given to subjects 15-17 years old and 86,506 doses were given to subjects 12-14 years old].

There are currently 162 Mobile medical stations in the province [including 99 Mobile medical stations in communes, wards and townships; 43 Mobile medical stations in industrial zones; 20 mobile medical teams of Military Medicine].

Reported by Phuong Chi-Translated by Nguyen Trang

​Specifically, the 2nd injection for students in grade 8 of Thu Dau Mot City, Tan Uyen Town, Ben Cat Town and grade 9 students in public and non-public secondary schools [if the parents agree and sign the commitment]. At the same time, vaccination for students aged 12-17 years old in the community, if the 1st dose has not been given, and the 2nd dose when the time is from 3 to 4 weeks.

Organize the campaign simultaneously on December 2 4, 2021. Vaccination of subjects with underlying disease on December 5, 2021. The vaccine used is Pfizer, which is approved by the Ministry of Health for use in aged 12-17 years old, according to the instructions of the manufacturer and the Ministry of Health. In which, 39,401 doses of the 2nd injection are distributed to students in schools; 19,099 doses of 1 and 2 injections for students 12-17 years old in the community.

Schools invite and mobilize subjects [according to the previously registered list] to vaccinate according to the time frames of the day to ensure the criteria for disease prevention and control and minimize the waste of vaccines.

Reported by Yen Nhi - Translated by Nguyen Trang

Accordingly, the subjects of application are people with meritorious services and their relatives who are enjoying a monthly allowance under the provisions of the Ordinance on Incentives for people with meritorious services to the revolution [including the martyr's spouse who marries another spouse]; people who are enjoying the monthly preferential allowance under the Prime Minister's Decisions; people from poor households, near-poor households according to the criteria of the province, people who are receiving monthly social protection allowance.

Subjects will receive a one-time support in cash at the rate of 1 million VND/person and will be applied until the end of December 31, 2021.

Support conditions: Must be on the list of monthly allowance in the locality and the list attached to the Decision on recognition of poor and near-poor households as of November 2021.

The support must be timely, correct and not omitted, openly, transparently, not to take advantage of policies. Each object is entitled to only one support, in case a person belongs to many beneficiaries, only one support will be provided. No support for subjects who voluntarily do not participate.

The Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs coordinates with relevant departments, committees and branches in guiding localities to implement, inspecting and supervising districts, towns and cities during the implementation of support to ensure the right subject, timeliness and efficiency.

Reported by Doan Trang- Translated by Nguyen Trang

​At Binh Duong bridge point, there were Mr. Nguyen Van Loi - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial Delegation of the National Assembly Deputies; Mr. Vo Van Minh - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; leaders of departments, committees, branches, localities and representatives of associations and enterprisess in the province.

Opening up safely

At the webinar, Mr. Vo Van Minh - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee gave an overview on the situation of pandemic adaptation and control; production restoration and socio-economic development of Binh Duong province. Accordingly, in 2021, with the change of the anti-pandemic strategy from "no Covid-19" to "safeandflexible adaptationandeffective controlover the pandemic", Binh Duong has returned to the "new normal" with positive signals. The province has strictly implemented the testing strategy in each phase and development of the pandemic to proactively detect and remove F0 in high-risk areas and implement appropriate pandemic prevention and control measures. Carrying out testing, screening all cases with suspected symptoms, key supervision testing in high-risk areas, mass gatherings to control and prevent new infection chains.

Accumulated to November 29, 2021, the entire province has injected 4,248,367 doses of Covid-19 vaccine; 206,383 doses were administered for subjects of 12-17 year olds and 16,836 doses were administered to foreigners.

Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Vo Van Minh presents the situation of pandemic adaptation and control; production recovery and socio-economic development of the province at the webinar

In addition, in order to safely open up and support enterprises to restore production post Covid-19, the province has directed departments, committees, branches and district-level People's Committees to support enterprises to register for implementation of production plans suitable to the conditions of each enterprise. Up to now, in the province, there are about 2,195 production enterprises in industrial parks [accounting for 90.25%] with a total of 401,768 workers [accounting for 82.7%] registered and engaged in production under the models of "1 road, 2 locations", "3 on-the-spot", "3 green" and "3 flexible on-the-spot".

Socio-economic results continued to be positive. The grossregionaldomestic product [GRDP] increased by 2.79%; attracting foreign investment capital 2 billion 069 million USD; revenue and expenditure exceeded the set targets. The field of culture and society continued to receive attention and direction, especially taking care of those affected by the pandemic.

Overview of the webinar at Binh Duong bridge point

In order to ensure the labor source to serve the production and business needs of enterprises, the province has issued a plan to coordinate in attracting and welcoming workers from provinces and cities wishing to return to Binh Duong to work; propagated and guided enterprises with labor needs to take steps as prescribed; coordinated with other provinces and cities to agree on a coordination and support mechanism so that workers can return and work in Binh Duong more smoothly. The situation of political security and social order and safety continued to remain stable. Foreign affairs was actively implemented, with an appropriate and effective form in the context of the pandemic, making an important contribution to the province's investment attraction.

Many solutions for safe, flexible adaptation and socio-economic development

At the webinar, many delegates evaluated Binh Duong province's solutions as flexible, timely, in line with reality, and clearly recognized the importance of adapting and controlling the Covid-19 pandemic in the coming time. Going into this issue, Dr. Nguyen Thu Anh - Director of Woolcock InstituteofMedical Research, University of Sydney, Australia said that Binh Duong needs to focus on vaccines, inject correctly, inject rightly and give priority to injections for groups aged 50 and over, groups with underlying diseases; at the same time planning booster injections, receiving technology transfer of vaccines and pharmaceuticals. In treatment, building a simple process, easy to implement on a large scale; preparing enough equipment, medicines, biological products, testing capacity, medical finance and requiring a tool to monitor and connect this system. Besides, it is necessary to improve the capacity of grassroots health care, especially in communes, wards and commune-level towns with a large number of workers; have policies to attract good medical staff to the grassroots.

As for the backup solution for the new variant, the delegates suggested that Binh Duong need to continuously update the situation of the Omicron variant to prepare a response scenario; at the same time, build a network of facilities that are capable and operate flexibly, improving people's self-rescue capacity.

Many good initiatives and solutions are presented at the webinar

Prof. Dr. Nguyen Hong Son - Deputy Head of the Party Central Committee's Economic Commission said that Binh Duong is a locality heavily affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, the province needs to assess and clearly determine the direct impacts on the overall socio-economic development goals and strategies in order to have specific and appropriate adjustment solutions. In addition, it is necessary to pay close attention to the issue of attracting high-quality human resources, and to have separate mechanisms and policies to recruit talents. At the same time, taking advantage of available market and regional linkages; continuing to stay close to the people, contribute and rely on each other in the face of common difficulties with enterprises to effectively restore the economy.

Dr. Le Dang Trung - General Director of Real-Time Analytics Company said that digital transformation and smart city construction is one of the key issues, creating a new step for the economic recovery and development of Binh Duong. Specifically, when opening up the economy and living with the Covid-19 pandemic, people will be supported with knowledge, information and contact for medical support; helping grassroots staff reduce work load and increase service quality; information management agencies operate more effectively. At the same time, implementing social security policies for the right subjects and in a timely manner; limiting duplication and errors. Easily connecting jobs inside and outside the province; supporting the recovery and development of enterprises, cooperatives and business households. In practical terms, Binh Duong will have to make a "leap" from stage-3 e-Government to stage-4 Digital Government; at the same time, follow the province's orientation towards building a smart city which is equivalent to implementing stage 5 of the Digital Government model.

Noting all comments from delegates, experts and scientists at the webinar, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Loi shared, Binh Duong has passed the peak of the pandemic, difficulties are still piling up, however, this is also an opportunity for the entire political system, enterrise community, and people in the province to join hands in restructuring the economy, making the most of all resources to innovate the growth model, develop trade-service industries and digital economy, focusing on science and technology development, innovation, improvement of labor productivity and competitiveness are the issues that need to be addressed in order to overcome and develop the socio-economic effectively and safely against the pandemic. Besides short-term and urgent solutions, Binh Duong will deploy groups of long-term solutions to restore production and business, overcome supply chain disruptions and create new impetus for economic growth in a sustainable way; strengthen digital transformation, build the smart city; quickly deploy social housing projects for workers and employees.

Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Loi speaks at the webinar

Speaking at the webinar, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thang highly appreciated Binh Duong's efforts, initiatives and solutions over the past time. Through the contents exchanged at the webinar, he hoped that Binh Duong would find a new solution and an appropriate direction to safely adapt to the pandemic, recover and develop the economy; from that, maintaining its development foundation, continuing to be a dynamic economic region that plays an important role in the Southern Key Economic Region.

Reported by Doan Trang- Translated by Nguyen Trang​

​During the day, the province recorded 642 cases through RT-PCR testing and had full epidemiological information; 19 patients died. Number of new F0 patients during the day: 1,311 patients [treatment facility: 178 patients; at home: 1,133 patients].

Since the 4th pandemic wave, Binh Duong province has recorded 282,873 cases of Covid-19 [through RT-PCR test]; 2,752 deaths.

Number of Covid-19 cases through RT-PCR test on December 1, 2021

Treatment facilities throughout the province are treating 3,368 patients [1st floor: 2,332 patients, 2nd floor: 583 patients and 3rd floor: 453 patients]. Number of critically ill patients requiring oxygen: 289 patients.

Cumulatively, the province has vaccinated 4,249,804 doses/4,715,100 doses of the distributed Covid-19 vaccine [2,442,801 1st doses and 1,807,003 2nd doses]; 206,913 doses were administered to subjects aged 12-17 years [of which 120,420 doses were given to subjects 15-17 years old and 86,493 doses were given to subjects 12-14 years old].

There are currently 162 Mobile medical stations in the province [including 99 Mobile medical stations in communes, wards and townships; 43 Mobile medical stations in industrial zones; 20 mobile medical teams of Military Medicine].​

Reported by Yen Nhi - Translated by Nguyen Trang

​​Attending at Binh Duong bridge point were Mr. Nguyen Van Loi - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial Delegation of the National Assembly Deputies; Mr. Mai Hung Dung - Member of Provincial Standing Party Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of Provincial People's Committee; Ms. Nguyen Truong Nhat Phuong - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Mr. Nguyen Van Hung - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Becamex IDC; leadership representatives of provincial departments, committees and branches.

Attending at the Japanese bridge point were Mr. Muraoka Tsugumasa - Governor of Yamaguchi Prefecture; Mr. Yanai Shungaku Chairman of Yamaguchi Prefectural Council; Mr. Yoshida Mitsuhiro - Chairman of Asean Inter-Parliamentary Union of Yamguchi Prefecture; leaders of departments and branches of Yamaguchi prefecture.

Speaking at the meeting, Mr. Mai Hung Dung Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee informed about the situation of socio-economic development and Covid-19 control in Binh Duong province. On behalf of the provincial leaders, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee deeply thanked the government and people of Yamaguchi prefecture for sending to the government and people of Binh Duong province 5,000 rapid test kits to serve the pandemic prevention and control of Binh Duong Province.

Delegates attend at Binh Duong bridge point

Assessing the results of friendly cooperation in the past time, the leaders of the two localities said that, since the establishment of friendly cooperation relations in 2014, Binh Duong and Yamaguchi have actively implemented exchanges of high-level delegations to visit and work in the two localities; at the same time, jointly organized conferences and seminars on investment promotion to attract investment in Binh Duong province. In addition, the two sides have actively implemented many cooperation and exchange programs in many fields.

The leaders of the two localities wished that Binh Duong and Yamaguchi would continue to strengthen extensive cooperation in the following areas: Economy, trade, exchange and development of human resources and cooperation in education and training, health, physical training and sports, etc., contributing to the socio-economic development of the two localities. Specifically, the two sides maintain trade and investment promotion activities, develop science and technology, research on cooperation in the field of high-tech agriculture, develop cooperation programs to train civil servants, nurses, foreign languages, etc. and raise the level of cooperation between the two localities.

Overview of the meeting

The two sides also hoped that the Covid-19 pandemic will be quickly controlled so that the two provinces can continue to stabilize, develop develop socio-economically, and deploy many friendly cooperation activities, contributing to fostering the friendship and solidarity between Vietnam and Japan as well as consolidating and developing the traditional cooperative relationship between the two localities and desired that the leaders of the two localities will soon meet face-to-face on the nearest occasion.

Secretary of Binh Duong Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Loi concludes the meeting

Concluding the meeting, Secretary of Binh Duong Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Loi highly appreciated the Covid-19 prevention and control of Japan in general and Yamaguchi prefecture in particular. At the same time, he hoped that the two provinces would strengthen the exchange of experiences in the Covid-19 prevention and control in the near future. The Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee believed that, with the close and active coordination of the two sides, cooperation activities will continue to be implemented in the coming time, serving as as a premise for the synchronous implementation of activities based on the strengths of each locality, contributing to tightening the relationship between Binh Duong province and Yamaguchi prefecture in the future.

On this occasion, the Secretary of Binh Duong Provincial Party Committee respectfully invited the Governor, the Chairman of the Council and the delegation of Yamaguchi prefecture to visit and work in Binh Duong province in a suitable time, so that the two sides can directly exchange and implement cooperation plans in the coming time. The Secretary wished the Governor, the Council Chairman of Yamaguchi Prefecture good health, happiness and success; wished the friendly cooperation relationship between Binh Duong province and Yamaguchi prefecture more and more consolidated and developed.

Reported by Mai Xuan - Translated by Nguyen Trang

​​Attending at Binh Duong bridge point were Mr. Mai Hung Dung - Member of Provincial Standing Party Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of Provincial People's Committee; Mr. Pham Ngoc Thuan General Director of Becamex IDC; representatives of leaders of provincial departments, committees and leaders of some Japanese enterprises in Binh Duong.

At Japanese bridge point, there were Mr. Murakao Tsugumasa - Governor of Yamaguchi Prefecture and about 100 Japanese enterprises.

At Ho Chi Minh City bridge point, there were Mr. Nobuhiro Watanabe - Consul General of Japan in Ho Chi Minh City; Mr. Shinji Hirai Chief Representative of Jetro Office in Ho Chi Minh City.

​​Overview of the webinar at Binh Duong bridge point

Speaking at the opening of the webinar, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Mai Hung Dung emphasized that after nearly 50 years of establishing diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Japan, the two countries have achieved great achievements in all fields. Especially, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's first official visit to Japan on November 22, 2021 took place in the context that the two countries' relations are at the best stage in history since the establishment of diplomatic relations. Japan is the top important economic partner of Vietnam, the largest ODA donor, the second largest investor, the third largest tourism and the fourth largest trade partner of Vietnam. As of the end of October 2021, Japan has invested in more than 4,700 projects in Vietnam with a total investment capital of 64 billion USD. Particularly in Binh Duong province, Japan has invested in 328 projects with a total capital of 5 billion 770 million USD. Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also said that up to now, more than 90% of enterprises in Binh Duong province have resumed operation; 100% of people aged 18 and over have received 1 dose of vaccine and more than 80% of people have received 2 doses of Covid-19 vaccine. The province is planning to welcome workers back to Binh Duong to work.

Introducing the investment environment in Binh Duong, Mr. Uematsu Kanji - Deputy Marketing Director of Becamex IDC said that Binh Duong is focusing on building Binh Duong Smart City and Science and Technology Industrial Park to serve investors. In the coming period, Binh Duong will continue to invest in infrastructure, especially arterial roads connecting to airport and seaports to shorten time and save costs of freight. The province also promotes digital transformation, striving that by early 2022, some administrative procedures related to the investment field will be carried out online. The province also pays special attention to the accommodation of workers, it is expected that, in the 2022-2025 period, the province will deploy to build 1 million social housing units with suitable prices for workers to have stable accommodation.

Appreciating Binh Duong's investment environment, Japanese enterprises investing in Binh Duong found that, during the complicated development of the pandemic, Binh Duong province's government always pays attention to and accompanies Japanese enterprises, creating conditions for enterprises to both prevent and control the pandemic and maintain production activities. Binh Duong has a favorable geographical position and modern and synchronous infrastructure, which is an important factor for Japanese enterprises to choose to invest. Mr. Masaki Nakahara - Factory Manager of Mitsubishi Vietnam said that the company has a factory in Di An city with more than 300 workers. During the recent 4th pandemic wave, the Company still operated the powder coating segment under the "3 on-the-spot" model with 30% of workers. He highly appreciated and thanked the leaders of Binh Duong province and authorities at all levels for creating conditions for the Company to carry out production during the complicated pandemic to keep up with the contract schedule. Binh Duong also created conditions for Japanese experts and workers to fully receive 02 doses of Covid-19 vaccine.

Mr. Hirofumi Osaki - General Director of Amon Vietnam Co., Ltd. highly appreciates Binh Duong's investment environment

Mr. Yoghiaki Ykeda - General Director of Sakai Chemical Vietnam Co., Ltd. said that Binh Duong is a locality with a rapidly developing economy; the Company's factory in Binh Duong has been in operation since 2009, up to now, the factory has not stopped developing. Binh Duong is also a locality with effective pandemic prevention and control solutions. During the time of implementing social distancing, the Company's operations have been significantly affected, however, with the best conditions from the provincial government and the Health branch, the Company has produced under the "3 on-the-spot" model. Company workers are vaccinated against Covid-19. He called for Japanese investors to come to Binh Duong to learn about the investment environment.

Agreeing with enterprises investing in Binh Duong, Mr. Hirofumi Osaki - General Director of Amon Vietnam Co., Ltd said that, Binh Duong authorities always promptly support enterprises when facing difficulties and create all favorable conditions for enterprises to operate effectively. He highly appreciated the hard work and resilience of Vietnamese workers. This is a very important factor for enterprises to choose to invest.

At the webinar, enterprises discussed the Covid-19 situation in the new normal and solutions in the coming time in Binh Duong's pandemic prevention and control to create more favorable conditions for enterprises to produce and do business effectively.

Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Mai Hung Dung concludes the webinar

Concluding the webinar, on behalf of the provincial leaders, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Mai Hung Dung cordially invited Japanese investors, enterprises and entrepreneurs to come to Binh Duong to learn about investment opportunities and environment, socio-economic infrastructure facilities that Binh Duong province has served the needs of foreign investors, especially Japanese investors during the past time; at the same time, for the province to have the opportunity to introduce more specifically about the potentials and advantages of Binh Duong province and the areas that Binh Duong prioritizes to attract investment in the coming time. The province will always accompany, support and create the most favorable conditions for foreign investors, including Japanese investors.

Reported by Mai Xuan- Translated by Nguyen Trang

​​Attending were Ms. Truong Thi Bich Hanh - Member of Provincial Standing Party Committee, Head of Propaganda and Training Commission ofProvincial Party Committee and members of the Provincial Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control.

The number of F0 discharged from hospital is more than the number of new F0 cases

As reported by the Department of Health, as of November 29, 2021, the entire province has 281,605 Covid-19 cases in 9/9 districts, towns and cities; 274,876 patients recovered [rate of 97.6%] and 2,656 cases died [rate of 0.96%]. Currently, there are 3,469 patients being treated at the hospital.

In the past 7 days [November 23 to November 29, 2021], the number of F0 detected in the community averages 90 cases/day, up 14.8% from last week. The number of F0 discharged from the hospital and recovered is more than the number of new F0 cases. Specifically, there were 4,897 new cases in the week, an average of 700 cases per day and 8,655 cases discharged from the hospital, an average of 1,236 cases per day.

Treatment is carried out according to a 3-level model to reduce the load on provincial treatment facilities. Simultaneously coordinating F0 between 3 tiers: Currently, there are 19 Covid-19 treatment areas and facilities and 09 concentrated quarantine areas that have been converted into tier-1 treatment areas with the number of beds meeting the maximum treatment capacity for 18,116 beds.

In the week there were 95 deaths [up 58.3% from last week], an average of 14 deaths per day, 914 patients transferred from tier 1 to tier 2 [up 8.7% from last week]; 40 patients from tier 2 to tier 3 [down 16.7% from last week].

Overview of the meeting

Discussing the treatment of F0 at home, Ms. Truong Thi Bich Hanh - Head of Propaganda and Training Commission ofProvincial Party Committee said that through the press's reflection, the management of F0 in some places is still loose; many home treatment F0 do not have access to medicines. At the same time, the number of home treatment F0 is too much, after recovering, it is difficult to get a certificate of recovery.

Regarding communication, in addition to the role of the press agency, the Health branch plays an important role in propaganda to raise awareness of pandemic prevention, and guide people on steps to handle when infected. At the same time, localities need to have solutions for propaganda suitable to the actual situation; follow social networks, considering this as an information channel for people to reflect on their recommendations and thoughts and must have a timely solution to the legitimate issues that people reflect.

Taking good care of home treatment F0

At the meeting, localities reported on the consolidation of the grassroots health system, the situation of vaccination, home treatment of F0, etc.

Mr. Pham Van Bay - Vice Chairman of Di An City People's Committee said that the city has accelerated the vaccination schedule for people. Up to now, the city has injected more than 686,000 people including 1st and 2nd dose. The home treatment F0 is paid attention by the city, medical facilities are directed to provide close guidance; in the coming time, the city will continue to strictly manage and fully supplement medicines for home treatment F0.

Di An also provided training instructions for 1,033 Covid-19 community groups, 603 Covid-19 groups at boarding houses; prepared human resources for tier-2 and 2+ treatment. In addition, Di An also established Covid-19 groups in enterprises, markets, and commercial centers to manage and support home treatment F0, ensuring that F0 gets maximum care and minimizes risks.

Ben Cat Town was assessed by the Provincial Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control as the locality that effectively implements F0 treatment in enterprises. Ms. Tran Thi Thao - Vice Chairman of Ben Cat Town People's Committee said that the town has injected more than 700,000 people with the 1st and 2nd dose, of which the 2nd dose has 243,000 doses. Currently, there are 13 Mobile medical stations in operation; 594 Covid-19 community groups.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Loc Ha concludes the meeting

Particularly in Thu Dau Mot City, up to now, 300,000 people have been vaccinated with the 1st dose, 240,000 people have received the 2nd dose; secondary and high school students have basically completed the injections and it is currently administering injections to 5,000 people aged 12-17 in the community. The city has maintained 1,607 Covid-19 community groups; 549 Covid-19 groups treat people staying at boarding houses. Performing well the payment of support policy for home treatment F0.

Currently, Tan Uyen Town is managing 5,046 cases of home treatment F0. In order to effectively manage and support home treatment F0, Tan Uyen Town has increased the operation of 733 Covid-19 community groups, 2,305 Covid-19 groups at boarding houses, and provided professional training for F0 care at home, training for 1,073 Covid -19 groups in the enterprises.

Concluding the meeting, Mr. Nguyen Loc Ha emphasized, in the spirit of living together safely with the pandemic, localities strive to achieve 03 goals: Lowest number of infections, lowest number of severe cases, lowest death reduction. The solutions to focus on in the coming time are vaccination, finishing the first dose, completing the second dose, and preparing for the third dose when there is a policy. The Health branch, Provincial Police, Department of Information and Communications discuss the fastest vaccination plan, but must comply with the instructions of the Central Government. Effectively implementing 5K messages, well managing F0 at home; strengthening the capacity of treatment tiers; proactively ensuring treatment medicines for F0, etc. He noted, home treatment of F0 must ensure mental stability and provide the best care; strengthen management, check and sanction F0 on the street; consolidate and strengthen Covid-19 community groups, Covid-19 groups treating F0 at home, consolidate treatment tiers, etc.

Reported by Yen Nhi - Translated by Nguyen Trang

​​It is known that the Mobile medical station and the Covid-19 community group in Thong Nhat 2 quarter, Di An ward, Di An city have been monitoring and treating up to this point 5,511 F0; supervising the observance of medical quarantine regulations by people in the area. Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Loi and members of the delegation met, visited and encouraged the participating forces at the Mobile medical station and the Covid-19 community group in Di An ward. Here, the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee also called to inquire about the health status and daily life of some F0 patients who are being treated, medically quarantined at their places of residence and wished that people would feel secure at home to monitor and treat, because the medical force is always available to organize timely examination and treatment when people have related requirements.

Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Loi calls to inquire the health status and daily life of some F0 patients who are being treated and medically quarantined at their places of residence

Through the inspection, Mr. Nguyen Van Loi highly appreciated the support for F0 treatment at home of the Mobile Medical Station and the Covid-19 community group in Thong Nhat 2 Quarter, Di An Ward. The Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee suggested that the locality continue to promote and strengthen the Covid-19 community group to take good care of the F0 treated at home; local leaders should pay attention to ensuring living and working conditions for medical forces, doctors, volunteers and participating forces.​

​Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Loi visits and encourages the Mobile Medical Station and the Covid-19 community group in Thong Nhat 2 Quarter, Di An Ward, Di An City

Reported by Ngoc Thanh- Translated by Nguyen Trang

​​Attending were Ms. Nguyen Minh Thuy - Member of Provincial Standing Party Committee, Head of Organization Committee of Provincial Party Committee; Mr. Mai Hung Dung - Member of Provincial Standing Party Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of Provincial People's Committee and leaders of departments, branches, Provincial Industrial Zones Authority.

At the meeting, the delegation listened to the Di An City Party Committee report on the implementation results of political, economic and social tasks in 2021. Accordingly, during the year, the City Standing Party Committee focused on leading the Party executive committees, authorities, Fatherland Front Committees and socio-political organizations from the city to the grassroots to organize the implementation of tasks according to the proposed resolutions, programs and plans. However, due to the influence of the Covid-19 pandemic, the city as well as other localities had to implement distancing and have a period of time to implement "lockdown, freeze", this has directly affected the performance of the city's socio-economic development tasks in 2021.

In 2021, the value of industrial - commercial, service - agricultural production of Di An city is estimated at 118,588 billion VND - 64,118 billion VND - 23.3 billion VND, equaling 102.39% - 54.47 % - 96.5% of the 2021 plan. Budget revenue is 2,965,958 billion VND, equaling 109.69% of the estimate assigned by the Provincial People's Committee and the Resolution of the City People's Council; budget expenditure is 1,997,861 billion VND, equaling 157% of the estimate assigned by the Provincial People's Committee and the Resolution of the City People's Council.

The delegation of the Provincial Party Committee led by Mr. Nguyen Van Loi - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial Delegation of National Assembly Deputies works with Di An City Standing Party Committee

After listening to the report of the Di An City Party Committee, the delegates in the Delegation also made many comments related to the following contents: Site clearance; construction schedule of key works and projects; urban development and embellishment; traffic, technical infrastructure; commerce-services, logistics; upgrading the city's medical center into a level 1 hospital, developing grassroots medical care, promoting medical socialization, providing medical examination and treatment on demand; ensuring security and order; promoting administrative reform; improving the quality of urban environmental management, etc.

Concluding at the meeting, Mr. Nguyen Van Loi acknowledged the efforts of all levels and branches; the efforts and consensus of all classes of people and the enterprise community in Di An city that have overcome difficulties and challenges, persevered, and determined to realize "dual goal" and achieved important results in the implementation of socio-economic development goals in 2021.

From now until the end of 2021, the forecast of the pandemic situation is still complicated; the risk of forming outbreaks, spreading and breaking out on a very large scale. In order to fulfill the socio-economic development goals and targets for both 2021 and 2022, the Provincial Party Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee asked Di An City to continue to focus on the top priority for the Covid-19 prevention and control. In which, proactively improving the forecasting capacity, perfecting scenarios and plans for pandemic prevention and control with specific situations, especially in the management of F0 treatment, F1 quarantine at the grassroots, remotely, early. Improving capacity of Mobile medical stations, ensuring the proactive and safe adaptation, flexibly, close to the situation, with high feasibility.

The Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee requested that Di An city need to focus on implementing safe, flexible and effective adaptation to ensure the goal of both Covid-19 prevention and control, stability and socio-economic development, maintaining growth momentum. Along with that, Di An city needs to continue to review, quickly and completely remove difficulties and obstacles; handle backlog issues and bottlenecks; continue to take care of the people's health and life, and ensure social security. At the same time, Di An city needs to continue to promote the spirit of initiative and creativity to perform well the set tasks. In particular, special attention is paid to issues such as: Continuing to do well in land planning, focusing on public investment and disbursement of public investment, must be consistent with the goal of quality urban planning; focusing more strongly on compensation and clearance; creating consensus of people and enterprises in urban development, etc.

Reported by NgocThanh - Translated by Nguyen Trang

​During the day, the province recorded 626 cases through RT-PCR testing and had full epidemiological information; 22 patients died.

Number of Covid-19 cases through RT-PCR test on November 30, 2021

Number of new F0 patients during the day: 1,468 patients [treatment facility: 253 patients; at home: 1,215 patients].

Since the 4th pandemic wave, Binh Duong province has recorded 282,231 cases of Covid-19 [through RT-PCR test]; 2,733 deaths.

Treatment facilities throughout the province are treating 3,490 patients [1st floor: 2,454 patients, 2nd floor: 592 patients and 3rd floor: 444 patients]. Number of critically ill patients requiring oxygen: 288 patients.

Cumulatively, the province has vaccinated 4,249,707 doses/4,715,100 doses of the distributed Covid-19 vaccine [2,442,784 1st doses and 1,806,923 2nd doses]; 206,903 doses were administered to subjects aged 12-17 years [of which 120,410 doses were given to subjects 15-17 years old and 86,493 doses were given to subjects 12-14 years old].

There are currently 162 Mobile medical stations in the province [including 99 Mobile medical stations in communes, wards and townships; 43 Mobile medical stations in industrial zones; 20 mobile medical teams of Military Medicine].

Reported by Mai Xuan - Translated by Nguyen Trang

​Attending were Mr. Nguyen Van Loi - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial Delegation of the National Assembly Deputies; leaders of a number of departments, branches and Di An city.

Di An City's Covid-19 treatment area has a scale of 150 beds, renovated from An Binh General Clinic with a total investment of 3.2 billion VND [excluding medical equipment]. In addition to the local budget, this work was completed with the active participation of social capital from enterprises such as: Becamex IDC, Ton Dong A Corporation, Telecommunications Center of Di An City, Hoang Hung Co., Ltd., Di An City Branch of Young Entrepreneurs Association, etc.

Mr. Nguyen Van Loi - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial Delegation of the National Assembly Deputies visits the Covid-19 treatment area at An Binh General Clinic, An Binh ward, Di An city

The Covid-19 treatment area at An Binh General Clinic operates 24/7, in charge of collecting, quarantining, monitoring and treating Covid-19 patients on tier 2 of the treatment tower; transferring severe and critical cases to hospitals on tier 3 of the treatment tower for further monitoring and treatment, in the system in Binh Duong province. The treatment area is of class 3 [according to the class of the unit in charge Di An City Medical Center].

Reported by Ngoc Thanh - Translated by Nguyen Trang

​During the day, the province recorded 697 cases through RT-PCR testing and had full epidemiological information; 22 patients died.

Number of Covid-19 cases through RT-PCR test on November 29, 2021

Number of new F0 patients during the day: 1,244 patients [treatment facility: 211 patients; at home: 1,033 patients].

Since the 4th pandemic wave, Binh Duong province has recorded 281,605 cases of Covid-19 [through RT-PCR test]; 2,711 deaths.

Treatment facilities throughout the province are treating 3,469 patients [1st floor: 2,443 patients, 2nd floor: 583 patients and 3rd floor: 443 patients]. Number of critically ill patients requiring oxygen: 286 patients.

Cumulatively, the province has vaccinated 4,248,367 doses/4,715,100 doses of the distributed Covid-19 vaccine [2,442,575 1st doses and 1,805,792 2nd doses]; 206,383 doses were administered to subjects aged 12-17 years [of which 120,014 doses were given to subjects 15-17 years old and 86,369 doses were given to subjects 12-14 years old].

There are currently 162 Mobile medical stations in the province [including 99 Mobile medical stations in communes, wards and townships; 43 Mobile medical stations in industrial zones; 20 mobile medical teams of Military Medicine].

Reported by Mai Xuan - Translated by Nguyen Trang

​During the day, the province recorded 705 cases through RT-PCR testing and had full epidemiological information; 13 patients died.

Number of Covid-19 cases through RT-PCR test on November 28, 2021

Number of new F0 patients during the day: 1,048 patients [treatment facility: 292 patients; at home: 756 patients].

Since the 4th pandemic wave, Binh Duong province has recorded 280,908 cases of Covid-19 [through RT-PCR test]; 2,689 deaths.

Treatment facilities throughout the province are treating 2,811 patients [1st floor: 1,790 patients, 2nd floor: 571 patients and 3rd floor: 450 patients]. Number of critically ill patients requiring oxygen: 289 patients.

Cumulatively, the province has vaccinated 4,248,287 doses/4,715,100 doses of the distributed Covid-19 vaccine [2,442,575 1st doses and 1,805,712 2nd doses]; 204,237 doses were administered to subjects aged 12-17 years [of which 117,868 doses were given to subjects 15-17 years old and 86,366 doses were given to subjects 12-14 years old].

There are currently 162 Mobile medical stations in the province [including 99 Mobile medical stations in communes, wards and townships; 43 Mobile medical stations in industrial zones; 20 mobile medical teams of Military Medicine].

Reported by Phuong Chi-Translated by Nguyen Trang​

​During the day, the province recorded 716 cases through RT-PCR testing and had full epidemiological information; 11 patients died. At the same time, additionally reported 09 deaths on November 26, 2021.

Number of new F0 patients during the day: 1,465 patients [treatment facility: 282 patients; at home: 1,183 patients].

Number of Covid-19 cases through RT-PCR test on November 27, 2021

Since the 4th pandemic wave, Binh Duong province has recorded 280,203 cases of Covid-19 [through RT-PCR test]; 2,676 deaths.

Treatment facilities throughout the province are treating 2,770 patients [1st floor: 1,733 patients, 2nd floor: 603 patients and 3rd floor: 434 patients]. Number of critically ill patients requiring oxygen: 260 patients.

Cumulatively, the province has vaccinated 4,247,658 doses/4,715,100 doses of the distributed Covid-19 vaccine [2,442,500 1st doses and 1,805,158 2nd doses]; 201,330 doses were administered to subjects aged 12-17 years [of which 114,964 doses were given to subjects 15-17 years old and 86,366 doses were given to subjects 12-14 years old].

There are currently 162 Mobile medical stations in the province [including 99 Mobile medical stations in communes, wards and townships; 43 Mobile medical stations in industrial zones; 20 mobile medical teams of Military Medicine].​

Reported by Yen Nhi - Translated by Nguyen Trang