The first COVID-19 patient (No 2,982) of the ongoing outbreak in Đà Nẵng was released from the city’s Lung Hospital on Friday after 18 days of treatment and testing negative for SARS-CoV-2 three times.
Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam asked for increased efforts to prevent the interruption of production chains in COVID-19-hit localities.
Fit and healthy young people must not become complacent over COVID-19, according to the deputy director of the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases.
Việt Nam recorded 114 new community cases of COVID-19 from 6am to 7pm on Thursday, increasing the national tally of community cases to 3,331.
Three people in HCM City are suspected to have contracted COVID-19 following tests on May 20, according to the city Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention.
Member of the Party Central Committee and Deputy General Director of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) Lê Quốc Minh has been appointed as editor-in-chief of Nhân dân (People) newspaper.
The two new variants are B.1.222 and B.1.619.
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