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Healthcare reaches remote communities under new national health policy

Director of National Children’s Hospital found dead

Professor Lê Thanh Hải, director of the National Children’s Hospital, a leading paediatrics expert, was found to have suddenly died at his workplace on Sunday afternoon.

Welfare programmes help city workers during Tết

Workers at Linh Trung 1 Export Processing Zone in the HCM City's Thủ Đức District can now shop at ERA Mart welfare supermarket and food stores that have opened in the zone.

HCM City ensures clean water supply for all residents

HCM City has asked its departments and enterprises to carry out measures to prevent water pollution, groundwater exploitation and lack of clean water for local use.

Two community cases reported on Monday morning, both in Hà Nội

Two community cases of COVID-19 were detected in Hà Nội on Monday morning.

UNDP helps build roads in Bạc Liêu and Cà Mau

People in Kim Châu Hamlet, Vĩnh Trạch Commune, Bạc Liêu City are ready to celebrate Tết after a new road opened on Wednesday.

VN's COVID-19 update on Monday morning

Thirty six new COVID-19 cases recorded on Sunday evening

Thirty six new COVID-19 cases were reported in Việt Nam on Sunday evening, including 17 community infections.

Thirty-six new COVID-19 cases reported this evening

Hà Nội shuts schools ahead of planned holiday break over COVID-19 community outbreak

After recording 11 community COVID-19 cases, Hà Nội authorities asked students to stay home starting Monday (February 1), one week ahead of the Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday.

Việt Nam confirms first COVID-19 patient carrying South Africa variant

The patient is a 25-year-old female expert from South Africa who landed in Việt Nam at Nội Bài International Airport on December 19, after transiting through Doha, Qatar.

14 new community COVID-19 cases confirmed on Sunday morning

Twenty-seven new community cases of COVID-19 confirmed

HCM City recorded one community case, a 28-year-old man with a permanent address in Hải Dương Province.

Contacts with new COVID-19 case in HCM City are tested and quarantined

A Vietnamese man who had close contact with a relative from Hải Dương Province has tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 after arriving in HCM City on a flight from Hà Nội on Thursday.

VN reports 28 new cases, including one imported on Saturday evening

Tiền Giang expands high-tech rice cultivation

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Tiền Giang will spend more than VNĐ34.5 billion (US$1.5 million) to expand high-tech rice growing areas to 4,000ha this year as part of an expansion plan to 2025.

Việt Nam among best countries in battling COVID-19: Lowy Institute

The assessment came as the country reports new clusters of COVID-19 community transmission with no currently known source of infection on Thursday after nearly two months of no local cases, but health authorities have been responding swiftly.

Water shortage, saline intrusion forecast to be serious this year

Many regions across the country, especially the Central Highlands and Mekong Delta, face risks of water shortage, drought and saline intrusion next month, according to hydrometeorology experts.

Universities to be fined for enrolment violations

Colleges and universities found to have violated enrolment regulations will face the fines of up to VNĐ100 million (US$4,340) and be forced to stop all enrolment activities, according to a new decree.

Poor families in Ninh Bình get new houses thanks to community support

The province has mobilised the community's support to build houses for the impoverished, with thousands of houses provided for underprivileged families last year.

Former prisoners and drug addicts help their community

A group of reformed prisoners and rehabilitated drug addicts now spend their time helping people who run into trouble on the streets in southern Viet Nam at night.