Việt Nam News

The move came after the hospital was considered as potentially posing a high risk of spreading the virus to the community.

The drug crime investigation police department announced on Thursday it had busted an illegal transnational drug trafficking ring, seizing 450kg of drugs of various types.

This is a critical time for Việt Nam in the fight against COVID-19. Thousands are fighting the pandemic. We can do it together!

HCM City has announced that it will temporarily suspend the granting of new work permits to foreign workers arriving from COVID-19-affected countries and territories.

In spite of challenges brought by saline intrusion and COVID-19, rice cultivation in the Mekong Delta localities must ensure domestic supply and take opportunities for export, said Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Lê Quốc Doanh on Friday.

Three COVID-19 patients – two British (numbers 22 and 23) and a local woman (number 35) – have been released from Đà Nẵng's general hospital after three weeks of treatment.

The Saigon Union of Trading Co-operatives (Saigon Co.op) has co-operated with other companies to provide more than 30,000 meals per day for quarantine areas fighting COVID-19, three times higher than previous days.

The Hà Nội Transport Service Corporation (Transerco) has cut more than 7,500 bus trips per day, equivalent to nearly 80 per cent of the total trips.

Nearly 10,000 suspected cases of COVID-19 have been excluded after they finished their quarantine and showed no signs of COVID-19 symptoms, the Ministry of Health’s infectious disease surveillance system has revealed.

The HCM City Department of Health will temporarily use the HCM City Oncology Hospital’s District 9 facility to treat COVID-19 patients, the third so far, if the incidence continues to increase.

A linen shirt and pants seem proper for a chilling spring day in Hà Nội, Nguyễn Linh Chi thought as adjusting the collar.

Neighbouring provinces of HCM City are rushing to set up concentrated quarantine sites to receive Vietnamese nationals returning from overseas who are subjected to mandatory quarantine amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

Ngô Thị Quýt may be 95 years old, but that is not stopping her from making free face masks for the poor.

Authorities and farmers in the Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) region are taking measures to cope with severe drought to reduce damages to crops. 

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc ordered local authorities at all levels to suspend meetings and events having more than 20 people to prevent transmission of SARS-CoV-2.

Two of the five patients returned from abroad and entered Việt Nam from March 21 to 23 and were quarantined upon entry. The rest caught SARS-COV-2 from patients inside the country.

An 89-year-old woman, a heroic Vietnamese mother, from Đà Nẵng City’s Hải Châu District, has contributed VNĐ5 million (over US$210) to help combat the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.