Youth Union members of Cư M’gar District in the Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) province of Đắk Lắk have been carrying loudspeakers on their motorbikes, telling local residents how to protect themselves from the coronavirus.

Nanogen Biopharmaceuticals and the research team behind Việt Nam’s home-grown COVID-19 vaccine Nano Covax, have been asked to provide more data before an emergency use licence can be granted.

The total number of COVID-19 cases in Việt Nam reached 435,265 as 12,796 new infections were reported on Sunday.

HCM City will provide VNĐ1.5 million (US$65.5) each to 3-4 million workers' families facing difficulties because of the pandemic as part of a new support package worth nearly VNĐ2.6 trillion ($112.3 million).

The meeting aimed to emphasis the importance of bottom-level authorities in controlling COVID-19 in accordance with the PM’s order, which is treating each commune, ward, town, factory and enterprise as ‘a fortress’, each resident ‘a soldier’ to fight the pandemic.

More than 16,000 experts and medical workers have been assigned to HCM City and southern provinces to serve COVID-19 prevention and control, while in Hà Nội and central provinces the pandemic was being controlled thanks to drastic measures and social distancing.