The Ministry of Health has sent an official dispatch to chairpersons of provincial and municipal People's Committees, directors of provincial and municipal Departments of Health and heads of medical facilities nationwide, asking them to raise the alert against the COVID-19 pandemic to the highest level and actively conduct COVID-19 testing at hospitals.

The Vietnam Red Cross Society's Central Committee on Saturday launched the Humanitarian Month 2021 on the occasion of World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day (May 8).

HCM City has set up four more facilities to increase its mandatory COVID-19 quarantine capacity to more than 10,000 beds amid the recent alarming rise in transmission.

Việt Nam reported a record number of new COVID-19 infections in a day since the country's fourth wave of COVID-19.