Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has ordered the health sector to conduct all necessary measures to make COVID-19 vaccines available in Việt Nam this month, while Hà Nội will close all streetside stalls, religious and relic sites from midnight.

The marine economy has become key to Việt Nam's economic structure and exploitation of the country's seas and islands has created a new driving force for development amid deep international integration, experts have said.

A Japanese man who died in Hà Nội on Saturday evening had tested positive for COVID-19.

Thirty-three new locally-transmitted COVID-19 patients were reported on Sunday evening, including an eight-year-old girl in Hà Nội's Mê Linh District.

33 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday