The country's 91st COVID-19 patient, a British pilot, will be transferred to the intensive care centre in HCM City’s Chợ Rẫy Hospital to have a lung transplant when the patient is healthy enough for the procedure.

A total of 340 Vietnamese citizens stranded in India returned home to Việt Nam on Wednesday morning on board a specially arranged flight.

Happy and relieved. That’s how Dr Phạm Ngọc Thạch, director of the Hà Nội-based National Hospital of Tropical Diseases, feels after three months on the frontline battling in the war against COVID-19.

Thủ Thiêm 2 Bridge which links District 1 and District 2 in HCM City is expected to open to traffic by early 2021.

At least eight people who suffered venomous snake bites are currently being treated at the Poison Control Centre in Hà Nội's Bạch Mai General Hospital.

The southern coastal province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu plans to set up a 1,073ha high-tech agricultural zone in the next five years.