The Health Department of the southern province of Vĩnh Long has quickly put in quarantine a person who returned from abroad from a pandemic hit country without declaration, conducted COVID-19 tests and traced people who had close contact with this person.

The number of people receiving unemployment allowance is estimated to reach 1.03 million by the end of this year, about 24 per cent higher than the same period last year due to the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic.

A young man from a poor commune of Thanh Hoá Province has been successful in growing chilli peppers for export.

Local authorities of south-central provinces have taken strong and prompt actions to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in an effort to help local fishery sector remove the formal warning (yellow card) imposed by the European Commission and support farmers to recover from losses.

Farmers who grow organic rice and breed giant river prawn in the same rice field under farm contracts in Trà Vinh Province are getting bumper harvests and high prices.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc hailed the role of science and technology intellectuals in the country, and appreciated the contributions made by the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations (VUSTA) to the country’s national construction and defence.

Doctors at Thong Nhất Hospital in HCM City have performed endoscopic mitral valve surgery on a 57-year-old man from the city’s Phú Nhuận District.

The Government Office and the Ministry of Health will jointly organise the National Health Digital Transformation Programme 2020 (eHealth Vietnam Summit 2020) on December 29-30 in Hà Nội.