Doctors from the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases congratulated patients discharged from hospital on May 14th. (Photo: VNA)
According to the Ministry of Health, of the remaining patients, 2 tested negative for the virus for one time; and 10 tested negative for 2 times.
No fatality has been reported in Vietnam.
Vietjet offers 0 VND tickets to promote domestic travel
Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)
Budget airline Vietjet is offering more than 200,000 tickets priced at only 0 VND (excluding taxes, fees) on all routes from May 5th to June 30th in response to the "Vietnamese People Travel Vietnam" programme of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Vietnam News Agency reported.
Previously, Vietjet just concluded a special promotion of super-saving tickets priced only from 18,000 VND (0.77 USD) on May 16th with the flight period to December 31 this year.
With 45 domestic routes covering Vietnam, more than 300 green flights everyday and on-time performance at 97.4 percent, the new-age carrier Vietjet pioneers in recovering local economic activities, in order to stimulate domestic tourism and create favourable conditions for people to travel in the new normal context after COVID-19. People and tourists can fly freely with Vietjet across Vietnam to Da Lat of dreaming, cool and fresh air; Da Nang, Nha Trang, Phu Quoc with blue seas, white sand and sunshine; Central Highlands with majestic landscapes; Can Tho of gentle river region; Ho Chi Minh City of excitement; Hanoi of a thousand years of civilization; or Hoi An Ancient Town imbued with the traditional identities, etc.
More detailed information about flight schedule is available on Vietjet’s official information channels at website www.vietjetair.com, Vietjet Air mobile app, official Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/vietjetvietnam/, ticket offices and official agents of Vietjet.
With a focus on cost management ability, effective operations and performance, Vietjet offers flying opportunities with cost-saving and flexible fares as well as diversified services to meet customers’ demands.
Vietjet is a fully-fledged member of International Air Transport Association (IATA) with the IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) certificate. As Vietnam’s largest private carrier, the airline was awarded the highest ranking for safety with 7 stars in 2018 and 2019 by the world’s only safety and product rating website airlineratings.com and listed as one of the world's 50 best airlines for healthy financing and operations by Airfinance Journal in 2018 and 2019. The airline has also been named as Best Low-Cost Carrier by renowned organizations such as Skytrax, CAPA, Airline Ratings, and many others.
Foreign newspapers continue to praise Vietnam’s efforts in saving save COVID-19 patient
A majority of COVID-19 cases in Vietnam recover
Vietnam has mounted an all-out effort to save the life of its most critically ill coronavirus patient, a British pilot who works for Vietnam Airlines, the national carrier, Reuters said in an article on the treatment of “Patient 91” in Vietnam.
“Little expense has been spared to try save the life of the 43-year-old man,” the article asserted.
The article stated his case has garnered national interest in Vietnam, where the government has won broad support for its campaign to contain the coronavirus, updating the number of voluntary lung donors, including a 70-year-old military veteran.
The article quoted foreign ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang saying that said the pilot’s underlying health issues had worsened his condition, but that Vietnam’s “best experts and doctors” will try to save him.
“Vietnam has been a bright spot during the COVID-19 pandemic — and has largely reopened for business,” said the US National Public Radio (NPR), adding that thanks to aggressive contact tracing, quarantines and testing, it's managed to keep its confirmed coronavirus cases to around 300, with no deaths.
Mentioning Vietnamese people volunteering to donate a lung to the British patient, the article said that doctors in a hospital in Ho Chi Minh city are struggling to save a patient from becoming the country's first COVID-19 fatality.
Vietnam’s preventive measures continued to be highlighted in foreign newspapers. In the article “Coronavirus: How 'overreaction' made Vietnam a virus success”, BBC wrote: “unlike other countries now seeing infections and deaths on a huge scale, Vietnam saw a small window to act early on and used it fully. But though cost-effective, its intrusive and labour intensive approach has its drawbacks and experts say it may be too late for most other countries to learn from its success.”
"It very, very quickly acted in ways which seemed to be quite extreme at the time but were subsequently shown to be rather sensible," the news quoted Prof Guy Thwaites, director of Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU) in Ho Chi Minh city, which works with the government on its infectious disease programmes.
"The government and population are very, very used to dealing with infectious diseases and are respectful of them, probably far more so than wealthier countries. They know how to respond to these things,” the article said.
Entitled “Aggressive testing and pop songs: how Vietnam contained the coronavirus”, an article by The Guardian stated “As of 30 April, Vietnam has a coronavirus death count of zero and only 270 cases. While the mortality numbers climb into the hundreds of thousands across the world, Vietnam has managed to contain the outbreak of coronavirus through timeliness, aggressive infection control, mass mobilisation of its population and an unprecedented level of openness.”
New York Times also followed Vietnam’s efforts in treating the British pilot, with a hope that a lung transplant could save him.
Singapore’s Channel News Asia praised the Vietnamese Government’s timely action to detain the pandemic, saying that foreigners praised the country’s efforts and showed gratitude for living in Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh city, not in their countries./.