Việt Nam News

The National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control confirmed the death on Sunday evening.

The total number of positive patients in Việt Nam now stands at 620, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

The municipal Department of Health is requesting the Ministry of Health provide another 20,000 testing kits. 

Nearly 280 Vietnamese citizens from 24 European and African countries were brought home on Sunday, with their flight landing at Vân Đồn International Airport in the northern province of Quảng Ninh.

 Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc held a working session with leaders of the Mekong Delta localities and Hồ Chí Minh City in Cần Thơ City on August 1 to discuss tackling difficulties in production and trade, and stepping up public investment capital disbursement.

Two more people have died in Việt Nam of COVID-19 related complications.

The HCM City Department of Transport has set up response teams to supervise the implementation of COVID-19 prevention measures by road and water transport operators.   

Four new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed on Sunday morning, including a man living in HCM City who had been to Đà Nẵng for vacation.

Among the patients, two are imported cases returning to the country from Indonesia and 26 are community transmitted, including 19 linked to Đà Nẵng General Hospital and seven in Đà Nẵng City.

Farmers and experts have asked HCM City authorities to remove hindrances and create favourable conditions for residents to build greenhouses and breeding centres on agricultural land used to build nursery gardens.

A third person has died from a COVID-19-related illness in Việt Nam.

The 2020 national high school exam is scheduled to be held across the country on August 9 and 10.

Defence agencies, military units and all soldiers should strictly comply with government resolutions and directives take drastic measures to fight COVID-19.

The Government's social protection support policy has struggled to prevent vulnerable people from falling into poverty and to protect those already poor from descending deeper into poverty due to COVID-19 pandemic, a survey has found.

It was less than three weeks since Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc requested the flight when it landed in Hà Nội, part of Viet Nam's efforts to leave no one behind.