The military force will establish rapid reaction teams to provide food, medicines and essential goods for people in HCM City beginning on Monday, according to Senior Lieutenant General Võ Minh Lương, head of the Government's Special Working Group and Deputy Minister of National Defense.

A 50-year-old resident from Tân Bình District in HCM City said he left his home at 5:30am on Saturday to get a document that would allow him to buy goods at a nearby supermarket. After one hour of waiting, the man finally got the paper for a 7am appointment.

Việt Nam is experiencing the heaviest outbreak ever: the number of cases has reached more than 300,000 and the death toll has been more than 7000.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Kiên Giang is focusing on three key areas -- crop cultivation, animal husbandry and seafood -- to maintain sustainable agriculture as the backbone of its economy.

Thousands of unofficial workers who have lost their jobs and have no stable income are struggling to survive during the coronavirus pandemic in Hà Nội.

Saigon Co.op’s retail networks have absorbed losses to keep the prices of many essential products unchanged in the last few months since the fourth wave of COVID-19 began.

Farmers in Long An Province’s Thuận Hoá District are getting a bumper harvest of winged yam and high selling prices.

Việt Nam recorded the biggest daily increase in coronavirus cases on Friday with 10,657 new infections including seven imported cases and 10,650 locally-transmitted ones, the Ministry of Health announced.