The Ministry of Health announced a further 69 COVID-19-related deaths in HCM City on Thursday evening, increasing the death toll to 207.

HCM City should strengthen public communications to encourage public trust in solutions that the city is carrying out to contain the COVID-19 outbreak, Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam, head of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, said on July 15 at an online meeting with city leaders.

Localities with COVID-19 outbreaks must give top priority to ensure healthcare and safety for people, Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính said on Thursday during a teleconference on COVID-19 prevention and control with authorities in 27 provinces and cities in the south.

As many as 13,000 shots of the Nano Covax vaccine, developed in Việt Nam, had been administered to volunteers aged 18-75 in the third trial phase as of Wednesday.

921,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, part of the 30 million doses deal with the company in 2021, arrived at Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport in HCM City on Thursday morning.

Đà Nẵng City has banned local people from swimming in the sea from Thursday until further notice due to the complex developments of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Phú Yên Province authorities, agencies and private benefactors have stepped up and donated necessities to help people in Ea Trol Commune cope with a COVID-19 outbreak.

Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) has teamed up with VMED Group to develop and produce a high-flow oxygen machine to help treat COVID-19 patients. And they have the production capability to produce thousands of machines each month should the need arise.