Chủ đề: Vietnam

Vietnam is facing many difficulties in securing sufficient doses of Covid-19 vaccines for its population of nearly 100 million as well as medical equipment for disease prevention. State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh sent letters to Mr. Charles Michel, President of the European Council, and Ms. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, respectively, requesting EU support in Covid-19 vaccines and have asked COVAX to prioritize allocations to Vietnam and ASEAN countries.

The Polish Government has decided to donate more than 501,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Vietnam and has ceded 3 million additional doses and donated medical equipment and supplies worth $4 million. Vietnam is the first non-European country to which Poland has provided vaccines and medical equipment.

According to a survey by Finder - a website comparing financial products - Vietnam leads the world in terms of percentage of cryptocurrency holders. Some 40 per cent of survey respondents in the country said they own or have purchased cryptocurrencies.

According to Savills, demand for space for data centers is developing quite quickly in Vietnam. The explosion of e-commerce and online shopping and the rising popularity of online entertainment during Covid-19 has led to a rise in storage demand, leading to growth in demand for space.

According to figures from App Annie Intelligence, Vietnam holds the second-highest market share in Southeast Asia in terms of downloading games on mobile applications, accounting for 22 per cent, after Indonesia’s 38 per cent. Constant growth in its online population along with better internet infrastructure may well see Vietnam become the next gaming “capital” of the region.

Ninety CEOs of leading US companies such as Adidas, Coach, Gap, Hanebrands, and Nike have proposed US President Joe Biden speed up vaccine aid to Vietnam to help restore the country’s key production industries relating to the US market and businesses. There are about 3 million workers in the US who directly depend on Vietnamese industries because of value chains.

According to the Statista Digital Market Outlook report, 29.1 per cent of all payments in Vietnam are made by mobile phone, putting the country behind only China and South Korea, but the total transactions by each user remain low.

Switzerland has shipped 30 ventilators, 500,000 antigen tests, and 300,000 surgical masks worth a total of CHF4.9 million ($5.32 million) to help Vietnam as it continues to fight Covid-19.

Vietnam is Russia’s largest supplier of coffee but its coffee brands are hard to find on the shelves of Russian supermarket chains because 99 per cent of exports are raw coffee. Vietnam’s rice exports to Russia have also fallen due to rising prices. Some agricultural products and processed agricultural products from Vietnam have reached Russia’s retail network, such as mangos, chili sauce, dipping sauce, pomelos, and dragon fruit, but in limited quantities.

France has donated 670,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine to Vietnam and Hungary 100,000 doses and 100,000 quick test kits. Vietnam is the second country in Asia, after Indonesia, to receive emergency vaccine support from France at this time.

At a working session on removing difficulties and obstacles in the production of Covid-19 vaccines on August 12, the Prime Minister requested that scientists, agencies, and businesses actively participate in technology transfer, research, and production of vaccines so that Vietnam will be able to start producing in September.

Vietnam’s NanoDragon satellite was sent to Japan on August 11 and is expected to be launched before March. The satellite was developed to demonstrate the application of nano-scale satellite technology in integrating an Automatic Identification System (AIS) to track and monitor vessels at sea. It is a product of a Vietnam Space Center development roadmap for “Made in Vietnam” micro-satellites.

Vietnam’s seafood industry will lose about $480 million a year if it receives a “red card” from the European Commission (EC) for illegal fishing. The industry’s capacity would reduce by at least 30 per cent if the “red card” was imposed for two or three years. Seafood currently contributes about 5 per cent of GDP and employs 4.7 million workers. The EU is Vietnam’s fifth-largest seafood market.

Initial public offerings (IPOs) have grown strongly in both quantity and value around the world in recent times but have been few and far between in Vietnam. The situation seems likely to continue into the immediate future, as Vietnam lacks companies in popular fields such as technology and healthcare that need to raise capital from the domestic stock market.

On August 10, in Hanoi, the Ministry of Health and the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology announced the results of a preclinical study on a Covid-19 treatment drug called VIPDERVIR, which is made from high quality ingredients of herbal origin in Vietnam. The drug will continue to be researched at the clinical stage, hopefully by the end of the year there will be results to be considered for licensing.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology on August 10 announced the results of a preclinical study on a Covid-19 treatment medicine called VIPDERVIR, which is made from herbal ingredients originating in Vietnam. The medicine will continue to be studied at the clinical stage and is expected to be considered for licensing by the end of the year.

The risk of continued community transmission of Covid-19 in Vietnam is very high, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Vaccinations are key to ending the pandemic, but are not the only measure, as they alone cannot end community transmission. The Ministry of Health’s “5K” strategy therefore needs to be continued. Many countries, including Vietnam, lack vaccines.

Vietnam’s outstanding advantages in agriculture have prompted the Francophone International Organization (OIF) to send a delegation of 70 enterprises from OIF member countries to Vietnam in October to promote trade and investment. This is an opportunity for Vietnamese businesses in the fields of agriculture, processing, renewable energy, and digital goods and services to cooperate with French-speaking partners.

Rice exports were down 10.6 per cent year-on-year in the first seven months of 2021. While there is demand among international partners for Vietnamese rice, deliveries have been hit by serious disruptions to supply chains. Purchasing and delivering goods as well as loading and unloading them on to ships have all stalled.

Nearly 600,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine have recently arrived in Vietnam. This is the seventh delivery under a contract signed between the Vietnam Vaccine Joint Stock Company (VNVC) and AstraZeneca for 30 million doses. AstraZeneca is the most used vaccine in the country and has been available since March.