Director of Đà Nẵng General Hospital, Dr Lê Đức Nhân, said it was the first severe shock after the second COVID-19 vaccination programme for medical workers between May 5-10 in the city.

A total of 851,513 people in Việt Nam have been given COVID-19 vaccine shots to date, according to Monday’s report from the National Expanded Programme on Immunisation (NEPI).

Nguyễn Thu Nga, living in Hoàng Mai District, Hà Nội and her family had a two-day agricultural experience tour to Ba Vì and Phúc Thọ districts over the recent four-day holiday.

Soldier Nguyễn Phi Khanh, who is on duty on the Trường Sa (Spratly) Islands, south-central Khánh Hòa Province, is eagerly awaiting May's elections on Đá Đông small island (Eastern Reef) to cast his ballot for the first time.

Testing must be considered one of the most important work to do in the COVID-19 fight, especially when Việt Nam was in an alarming situation with highly contagious UK and India variants were detected in new infections

Seventeen new cases of COVID-19, including one imported case and 16 domestic cases, were confirmed on Monday evening, raising Việt Nam's total caseload to 3,461.

HCM City has received two more trains for its metro route No. 1 between Bến Thành and Suối Tiên, scheduled to begin commercial operations next year, making for a total of three so far.