The shipment of 500,000 doses of the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine along with 502,400 single-use syringes as aid from the Chinese Government arrived at Nội Bài International Airport in Hà Nội on Sunday afternoon.
The central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế has applied several measures to preserve and sustainably develop Huế’s traditional lotus farming.
The amount of land for cemeteries in HCM City is shrinking and authorities have been asked to draw up plans for future needs.
The first mission abroad of Captain Nguyễn Trọng Chiến, an infectious disease doctor, was in the war-ravaged Republic of South Sudan. He left Việt Nam for the United Nations’ peacekeeping mission in April and has been busy with the treatment and COVID-19 prevention and control work.
Minister of Health Nguyễn Thanh Long speaks to Sức khoẻ đời sống (Life and Health) online newspaper about the national vaccination campaign to fight COVID-19
A total of 300 local COVID-19 cases were reported on Sunday in nine localities, the Ministry of Health announced.
The vaccine, with the product name Vero Cell, will be given to Chinese nationals living in Việt Nam, Vietnamese people who intend to go to work or study in China and residents in the border region with China.
Two more people have died of COVID-19 complications, taking the death toll in Việt Nam since the beginning of the pandemic to 66.
New data from Public Health England (PHE) has demonstrated that the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine offers high levels of protection against the Delta variant (or B.1.617.2, formerly known as the Indian variant), AstraZeneca has said.
The central city of Đà Nẵng has ordered closure of beaches and sit-in dining venues starting Sunday at noon due to a new COVID-19 outbreak that have spawned 24 infections in a single day.
Việt Nam recorded 293 local COVID-19 cases on Saturday in 15 localities, the Ministry of Health announced.
