HCM City recorded one community case, a 28-year-old man with a permanent address in Hải Dương Province.

A Vietnamese man who had close contact with a relative from Hải Dương Province has tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 after arriving in HCM City on a flight from Hà Nội on Thursday.

The assessment came as the country reports new clusters of COVID-19 community transmission with no currently known source of infection on Thursday after nearly two months of no local cases, but health authorities have been responding swiftly.

The province has mobilised the community's support to build houses for the impoverished, with thousands of houses provided for underprivileged families last year.

A group of reformed prisoners and rehabilitated drug addicts now spend their time helping people who run into trouble on the streets in southern Viet Nam at night.