With a total of 1,000 beds, the field hospital arranged 50 beds for patients who need intensive care, 150 beds for patients who are at critical health conditions, 500 beds for patients with medium illness and 300 beds for patients with mild illness.

Minister of Health Nguyễn Thanh Long has instructed HCM City to strengthen care for COVID-19 patients isolated at home to ease the burden on designated hospitals.

Doctors from the National Children's Hospital and the 108 Central Military Hospital have successfully performed a liver transplant on an 18-month-old girl suffering from malignant hepatoblastoma. 

Hà Nội is collecting one million samples for COVID-19 screening tests from August 18 to 20, the city's Centre for Disease Control (CDC) said.

Vice chairman of HCM City People's Committee Dương Anh Đức has approved a proposal by the city’s Foreign Affairs Department about COVID-19 vaccinations for foreigners in the city.

Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng chaired a meeting of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat in Hà Nội on Tuesday to consider disciplinary measures against the Party Delegation to the Hà Nội People’s Committee in the 2016-2021 tenure and several former leaders of Hà Nội and HCM City.

Primary school students in HCM City will learn online for the first 10 weeks of the upcoming academic year due to school closures amid the raging Covid-19 pandemic.

HCM City plans to provide COVID-19 testing over the next 30 days in three phases.

Emergency taxi teams now operate in many districts in the city. The taxi model has shown positive results since it was put into operation.