Almost one million adults were vaccinated in Hà Nội over the weekend, according to the city’s Health Department.
Deputy Prime Minister Lê Minh Khái has signed decisions to allocate rice, tents and electricity generators from the national reserves to Gia Lai, Bình Phước and Sóc Trăng provinces to support people affected by the pandemic.
Lê Thanh Truyền, a final-year student of HCM City-based University of Medicine and Pharmacy, starts bringing medicine for COVID-19 patients across the city at 7am every day.
Many patients at the COVID-19 resuscitation hospital in HCM City, managed by Huế Central Hospital, are receiving meals and medication from a robot.
The Hồ Chí Minh Communist Youth Union is calling for support for its programme called "Million bags of social security," which aims to help people in need during t the COVID-19 pandemic.
The environment sector, especially in localities severely hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, has strengthened measures to protect environmental workers from being infected with SARS-CoV-2 when collecting waste.
Việt Nam’s total COVID-19 caseload reached more than 613,370 on Sunday after the Ministry of Health reported an increase of 11,478 more patients and another 261 deaths.
345 Vietnamese citizens repatriated from the US, departed from Los Angeles and San Francisco, transiting via Seoul in South Korea, and finally boarded two flights (VN5413 and VN5414) run by Vietnam Airlines.
More than 4,300 coffee growing households in the northern province of Sơn La will receive support in coffee farming, production and trade under a 2-year project by the Foundation for International Development/Relief (FIDR) Vietnam Office – a Japan-based NGO.
Thụy Phương Commune in suburban Chương Mỹ District was put under lockdown on Saturday night after five COVID-19 cases were reported.
Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính on Saturday warned businesses not to be hasty in resuming activities just because the battle against the COVID-19 has produced initial positive signs.
A total of 11,932 new COVID-19 cases have been detected in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of infections to more than 600,000.
Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has identified the vaccination rate, supply of medicines and public compliance with regulations as the three key factors that will affect HCM City’s gradual reopening to facilitate economic recovery and safety from COVID-19.
The HCM City People’s Committee plans to issue QR codes to people who have got at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and people who have recovered from the disease to enable them to carry on business activities.
The HCM City Department of Health has directed medical facilities to step up COVID-19 testing, especially of people with suspected symptoms, to slow down the spread of the virus in the community.