Illustrative image (Photo: http://www.cpcs.vn/)
This is the 8th edition of the report, ranking the countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves. It analyses the countries on GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom to make life choices, generosity and perceptions of corruption, reported VNA.
The special focus of the World Happiness Report 2020 was on the environment for happiness, which emphasizes more specifically on social, urban and natural environments for happiness.
Finland tops the ranking, closely followed by Denmark, Switzerland and Iceland.
Meanwhile, the least happy countries are Afghanistan, South Sudan, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Central African Republic, Tanzania, Botswana and Yemen.
Three new COVID-19 cases in Vietnam
On March 23rd, the Ministry of Health has confirmed three new COVID-19 cases in Ho Chi Minh city, raising the total Vietnam to 121 so far.
Samples were taken from each of the patients and were later confirmed as positive tests for the SARS-CoV-2 virus by the Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute.
The 119th patient is a 29-year-old male from the United States who resides in Binh Thanh district of Ho Chi Minh city. The man regularly travelled between Vietnam and other neighbouring countries such as Indonesia and Thailand from March 1st to 15th.
He eventually returned to Vietnam on March 15th and began to display signs of a fever, a cough, and a sore throat on March 19th before later being admitted to FV Hospital for quarantine and treatment.
Health workers take samples of a person suspected of contracting the SARS-CoV-2 (Photo: VNA)
The 120th patient, 27-year-old male Canadian national, residing in district 2. He works locally as a foreign language teacher and had recently come into close contact with the 91st patient.
He was transferred to Cu Chi field hospital to be quarantined and receive treatment after initially displaying symptoms of fever and dry cough on March 21st.
The 121st patient is a 58-year-old male Vietnamese national who lives in Tan Binh district. The patient and his wife had been travelling to the country from New York in the US, beginning their journey on March 18th by taking ANA airline’s flight NH831 which transited at Narita airport in Japan before landing at Tan Son Nhat International Airport on March 19th.
Upon arrival in the southern city, the patient and his wife were transferred to an isolation zone in Can Gio district. The following day on March 20th, the patient began to show clinical symptoms of the COVID-19, including a fever without coughing and shortness of breath. He was immediately placed in isolation under strict surveillance at the Can Gio District Health Center.
On the same day, the first free hand-washing station among the total 100 nationwide was placed at the Ly Thai To statue park in Hoan Kiem district, Hanoi, as part of the anti-COVID-19 program “For a healthy Vietnam”.
People were encouraged to join the hand-washing dance “Ghen Co Vy” (Jealous Coronavirus) - which has been praised on the US magazine Billboard and the “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver”, an American late-night talk and news satire television programme.
The programme aims to build 100 free hand-washing stations in public places such as bus stations and tourist sites nationwide.
On this occasion, hundreds of students from the Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy in the central province of Thua Thien Hue have volunteered to join the nation’s efforts in the fight against COVID-19./.