Medical workers of Hung Vuong Maternity in Ho Chi Minh City had the pleasure of bringing the first baby of the year into world.
The baby boy was born at exactly midnight and came in weighing 3.8kg. His mother is 42 year old Vo Thi Y Lan in district 10.
Meantime, surgeons in the Mekong delta city of Can Tho were performing a C-section on a mother in Cai Rang District who gave birth to a 3.2kg baby girl.