Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính has ordered HCM City to enhance COVID-19 measures, including offering more rapid COVID-19 tests and taking steps to prevent cross-infection in centralised quarantine areas as the more contagious Delta variant continues to spread in the city.

They will need to introduce proofs of vaccination, with the types of vaccines approved by World Health Organisation (WHO), US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), European Medicines Agency (EMA), or Vietnamese authorities.

With the severe fourth wave of infections underway since late April, the number of new cases keeping escalating and the disease has spread further in the country over the past week. 

More than 13,000 volunteers are expected to join the third phase human trial of COVID-19 vaccine Nano Covax – the most promising Vietnamese-made vaccine to date.

Long An Province's Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has proposed building a freshwater reservoir project in Thạnh Hoá District to ensure water supply in the dry season.

The Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) is collecting opinions from ministries and agencies to complete a draft resolution on policies to support labourers and businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

In scorching temperatures of up to 45 degrees Celsius, police officers on duty at COVID-19 checkpoints in Vinh City, central Nghệ An Province, have been working around the clock.

The Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính on Thursday issued a directive on inter-sectoral coordination between ministries, sectors and the People’s Committees of 28 coastal localities in exchanging and handling information so as to prevent and put an end to illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing in foreign waters.