Vietnam studies 50 more COVID-19 infections, all schools found in Hanoi closed
01 February, 2021
Vietnam reported on Sunday (Jan 31) 50 new COVID-19 attacks, most linked to a fresh outbreak that began on Thursday found in the northern province of Hai Duong, the Ministry of Overall health said.
The outbreak has spread to at least nine cities and provinces, including Ho Chi Minh city and capital Hanoi, with 238 locally transmitted infections, the ministry said. That has raised the total amount of COVID-19 situations in the country to at least one 1,817, with 35 deaths.
Authorities in Hanoi announced on Sunday that schools in the city would close, after locking straight down several residential areas and a good factory found in the northern province of Hai Duong, the outbreak's epicentre, because the first conditions of community transmission found in almost 8 weeks were detected there the other day.
Vietnam's ruling Communist Get together re-elected on Sunday its 76-year-good old chief Nguyen Phu Trong for a good rare third five-calendar year term, as the country battled its biggest coronavirus outbreak because the pandemic began.
Trong, who emerged on top in a power struggle at the last congress on 2016 and possesses spearheaded a "blazing furnace" crackdown on corruption within the last five years, was granted an exception to party rules that say people older than 65 should retire, cementing his position among the country's strongest and longest-serving leaders for many years.
Trong's re-election as get together general secretary came at a five-yearly party congress in Hanoi, where 1,600 get together delegates from across Vietnam will be concluding eight times of meetings, mostly nowadays, to pick a new leadership team, looking to bolster Vietnam's ongoing monetary victory - and the legitimacy of the party's rule.
After the new outbreak was detected, state media reported that the congress would end on Monday, a day earlier than planned.
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