A 35-year-old patient was hospitalised at the City International Hospital in HCM City with severe lower back pain that radiated to his left leg and difficulty moving around.

HCM City will go ahead with national high school graduation exams for more than 88,000 candidates on July 7-8 based on the Ministry of Education and Training’s schedule despite the COVID-19 outbreak, according to its Department of Education and Training.

A total of 220 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed on Wednesday raising the total number of patients in Việt Nam to 13,947, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).