The new cases have not been officially confirmed by the health ministry yet.

As many as 230,000 informal and freelance workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in HCM City will receive financial assistance from the second financial relief package worth VNĐ886 billion (US$38.58 million) in the next three weeks.

This is part of the order of 31 million doses for 2021 with the health ministry, with planned delivery of 3 million in third quarter and 28 million in fourth quarter.

Four more COVID-19 deaths were announced on Tuesday morning, all of them elderly women with serious underlying health issues in Hà Nội, Nghệ An, Hà Tĩnh and HCM City.

Lab technicians at HCM City hospitals work diligently at night to test samples for COVID-19 and provide the results as soon as possible to the city Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention to help quickly track down patients and trace their contacts to slow down transmission within the community.

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính has assigned the Ministry of Science and Technology to coordinate the research and production of COVID-19 vaccines within the national product development programme by 2030 amid complicated developments of the pandemic nationwide.