Việt Nam would consider opening its borders to foreign visitors – if the country they are coming from has gone 30 days without any new cases of COVID-19, experts have said.

Police in central Hà Tĩnh Province’s Hương Sơn District have decided to detain a car driver and commence legal proceedings over him for resisting officials on duty.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has called on strengthening measures to ensure the enforcement of the rights of children and child protection.

Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Võ Tuấn Nhân has called for sources of severe air pollution to be identified a soon as possible.

Doctors at children’s hospitals in HCM City have reported a number of drowning deaths of kids and related injuries in recent days.

For more than two months, doctors at the HCM City Hospital for Tropical Diseases worked round-the-clock to treat a 43-year-old COVID-19 patient, a British pilot with Vietnam Airlines, before he was transferred to the city's Chợ Rẫy Hospital on May 22.

The south-central region is estimated to have 51,000 – 70,000ha of farmlands facing a water shortage and a temporary halt to cultivation until there is rain or farmers switch to drought-resistant crops, according to the Department of Irrigation.

The HCM City Central Steering Committee on Disaster Prevention and Control has ordered city districts to take timely measures to deal with fallen trees during the rainy season following the the death of a student who was hit by a falling tree on Tuesday at a secondary school.