Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has issued a range of stringent social distancing measures, including restricting people from leaving their homes and banning gatherings of more than two people in public.

The Ministry of Transport sent an urgent dispatch to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) on the suspension of international flights carrying Vietnamese citizens to the Hanoi-based Noi Bai Airport starting from 0:00am on March 26.

YBO - The first blood donation festival was held at the General Hospital in Nghia Lo region of Yen Bai province on March 24.

YBO - Aside from four existing concentrated quarantine facilities, Yen Bai province has added another eight centres of district-level localities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

YBO - The People’s Committee of Yen Bai has issued Plan No. 54/KH-UBND dated on March 14 on the conservation and promotion of the special national relic of Mu Cang Chai terraced rice fields in line with tourism development in the 2020-25, with a vision to 2030.

YBO - The province has issued a detailed plan on responding to the "Second situation” – Plan No 16/KH-UBND dated January 31, 2020 of the provincial People’s Committee – in which first Covid-19 cases are reported in the locality.

Vietnam is now at the “golden stage” of COVID-19 prevention and control, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said on March 16.

Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Le Thi Thu Hang on March 14 answered reporters’ queries about entry and exit policies for foreigners who are subject to temporary suspension of entry into Vietnam within 30 days from 12:00 on March 15, 2020.

The Consular Department under the Foreign Ministry has issued advice to Vietnamese citizens on what they should do amid latest complicated developments of the COVID-19 epidemic in many countries and territories worldwide.

YBO - The People’s Committee of Yen Bai province has issued a plan on external cultural activities for 2020.

Vietnam has officially entered the second phase of the fight against COVID-19 since the 17th case was detected two days ago, and this phase is even more difficult than the first one, but the country is ready to respond to any circumstance, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said on March 8.

YBO - YBO - According to Decision No. 409/QD-UBND of Yen Baiprovincial People's Committee on the announcement of the results of the survey assessing the competitiveness of departments, agencies and localities in the province in 2019, the provincial Taxation Department and Tran Yen district topped the rankings.

Vietnam will focus on Olympic sports at the 31st Southeast Asian (SEA) Games to be held in Hanoi next year.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USCDC) spoke highly of Vietnam’s performance in preventing and combating the acute respiratory disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) at a working session with Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam in Hanoi on February 28.

YBO - Yen Bai province has asked for more efforts to monitor and seriously implement the reception and quarantine of foreigners entering the locality and Vietnamese citizens who have come to it from coronavirus-hit areas.

The Vietnamese government will work in tandem to contain the novel coronavirus epidemic and to achieve economic growth targets for 2020, the PM says.

The 16th and the last COVID-19 patient in Vietnam was declared cured and discharged from hospital on February 26.

A parade of Formula 1 (F1) model car was held in Hanoi on February 22 as part of events to celebrate the F1 Vietnam Grand Prix (GP) 2020, scheduled to take place in the Southeast Asian country for the first time this April.

The Consular Department under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Vietnamese Embassy in the Republic of Korea (RoK) on February 21 recommended Vietnamese citizens to avoid travel to areas that are affected by the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and vulnerable to the virus in the country as warned by local competent agencies.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, as Chairman of ASEAN in 2020, issued a statement on ASEAN’s joint response to the outbreak of the acute respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), in the face of complicated development of the epidemic.

YBO - Yen Bai province has arranged two quarantine areas for Vietnamese nationals and foreigners coming to the locality from regions hit by the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

The Communist Party of Vietnam and the ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front Party (FSLN) of Nicaragua have signed a cooperation agreement for 2020-2025 to enhance friendship, solidarity and comprehensive collaboration between the two parties and countries.

YBO - All nine city and districts of Yen Bai province held ceremonies on February 1 to see off a total of 965 young people joining military and public security forces.

YBO - A ceremony to mark the 90th anniversary of the Yen Bai Uprising was held in the city of the same name on February 10.

YBO - Yen Bai province set up five working groups on February 6-7 to inspect the prevention and control of the acute respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus (nCoV) in its localities.