HCM City should soon start using a robotic assistant to automatically make phone calls to people to ask about COVID-19 symptoms and  report to health officials for taking samples to test in time Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has said.

The amount of COVID-19 cases in Việt Nam has topped 8,000.

Every child aged up to 16 years old in COVID-19 concentrated areas is being given VNĐ80,000 (US$3.5) per day for daily meals during their 21-day quarantine.

Healthcare staff have been working day and night to provide screening tests in high-risk areas in HCM City to detect cases in the community amid the latest COVID-19 outbreak.

People nationwide have done their bit to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic, but few have gone quite as far as Ngôn Đức Thắng.

The northern province of Bắc Ninh on Wednesday launched a production-residence-combined model in which workers don’t leave their factories after work or stay together at concentrated accommodations like dorms, hotels or schools.