Among the patients, two are imported cases returning to the country from Indonesia and 26 are community transmitted, including 19 linked to Đà Nẵng General Hospital and seven in Đà Nẵng City.

Farmers and experts have asked HCM City authorities to remove hindrances and create favourable conditions for residents to build greenhouses and breeding centres on agricultural land used to build nursery gardens.

A third person has died from a COVID-19-related illness in Việt Nam.

The 2020 national high school exam is scheduled to be held across the country on August 9 and 10.

The Government's social protection support policy has struggled to prevent vulnerable people from falling into poverty and to protect those already poor from descending deeper into poverty due to COVID-19 pandemic, a survey has found.

Twelve more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the central city of Đà Nẵng, including a two-year-old baby boy.