The new local transmissions include four in Hà Nội and 16 at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases on outskirts of the capital in Đông Anh District.

The health ministry’s Medical Services Administration (MSA) in collaboration with Bayer Vietnam, launched a website on stroke prevention and control on Thursday.

Soldiers from the Vietnamese army’s chemical division on Thursday disinfected the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ha Noi after it became a COVID-19 hotspot.

The HCM City chief has said authorities must tighten measures to prevent a new COVID-19 outbreak.

Seventeen people in Hà Nội City and the northern provinces of Thái Bình and Bắc Ninh, all related to the cluster of infections in National Hospital of Tropical Diseases' Kim Chung campus in Đông Anh District, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 on Thursday, according to local health departments.

Minister of Health Nguyễn Thanh Long has received their AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine Thursday morning at Bạch Mai Hospital in Hà Nội.

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính on Wednesday presided over the Government’s April meeting, which was the first meeting of the Cabinet after it completed the personnel work last month.

A woman and her son have been jailed for eight years each for sharing anti-State propaganda.