This is the eight shipment from the VNVC’s order of 30 million doses with AstraZeneca, the entirety of which would be handed over to the health ministry at not-for-profit price.

Việt Nam, especially the current hotspot HCM City, needs to maintain stringent social distancing measures and stress that each individual and family plays a decisive role in reducing infection chains, overseas-Vietnamese experts said at a webinar on August 12.

President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc asked Hà Nội’s authorities to continue large-scale testing to detect high-risk COVID-19 areas.

Vice chairman of Hồ Chí Minh City People’s Committee Dương Anh Đức said that the city’s Department of Health today started to administer one million doses of Vero Cell COVID-19 vaccine to its residents.

Switzerland has delivered 30 ventilators, 500,000 sets of antigen tests and 280,000 medical facemasks to support Việt Nam in its efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bình Dương Emergency Resuscitation Field Hospital, specialising in treating patients with severe COVID-19, has been put into operation on Thursday in the southern province of Bình Dương’s Thuận An District.

The management board of industrial parks in Đồng Nai Province has ordered local healthcare centres to give priority to vaccinating factory workers of enterprises applying the ‘3-on-site’ model.