The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta city of Cần Thơ is expanding linkages among stakeholders in agriculture production and is promoting online sales of agricultural products to increase income for farmers.

The HCM City Food Safety and Hygiene Management Board will closely monitor liquor sold by retailers to ensure customers buy products with clear origin.

Since the beginning of this year, the Hà Nội Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has signed cooperation agreements with 28 provinces and cities across the country on ensuring food safety and improving the quality and value chain supply of agricultural, forestry and fishery products.

The HCM City Department of Transport is speeding up the deployment of construction investment in 16 key intersections to reduce traffic jams in the inner city.

Experts at a seminar on drug and medicine supplies have called on ministries to submit proposals to the government that will remove bottlenecks causing the current shortage seen across the sector.

The HCM City Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there were 3,066 cases in the first week of August, 6.4 per cent fewer than a month earlier.

The south-central province of Bình Thuận has invested in infrastructure projects and supported production in an effort to improve the lives of ethnic minorities.

The Ministry of Health said that most countries in the world are in a state of unstable COVID-19 cases and deaths, with an erratic increase and decrease trends as new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus appear.