A further 393 people have died of complications related to COVID-19, bringing Việt Nam’s total number of fatalities to 2,720.
The medical aid package was given to Việt Nam on Thursday by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to support the country in the fight against the global pandemic.
The man’s first name was released as Alberto. He is 26-year-old and is from the Dominican Republic.
More than 300 medical workers and eight tonnes of medical equipment from Hà Nội-based Việt Đức Hospital reached HCM City on Thursday to help set up an intensive care centre for severe and critical COVID-19 patients.
Việt Nam will soon license Remdesivir as a COVID-19 treatment.
The earliest time for students to return to school for the new school year 2021-22 across the country is September 1, 2021.
Isolated living environments, well-structured communities and food self-sufficiency have turned villages and islands in central Việt Nam into safe havens against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lê Thị Nhung, 29, drove a car for 32 hours covering a distance of 1,200km to take poor patients back to their homes.
The southernmost province of Cà Mau plans to expand its area under banana to 6,000ha and annual output to 120,000 tonnes by 2025.
Việt Nam needs to solve persistent gender issues in ethnic minority communities that are affecting women and girls, according to reports conducted by a group of international organisations and local authorities.
Hà Nội is always a locality that face a high risk of COVID-19 outbreaks, Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam said on Wednesday, urging the city to keep vigilant and prepared so that it could made active effective steps in responding to the disease.
A total of 7,623 new COVID-19 infections were reported in Việt Nam on Wednesday, increasing the caseload since the beginning of the pandemic to 177,813, the Ministry of Health says.
Health minister Nguyễn Thanh Long asked Mission Director for USAID Việt Nam Ann Marie Yastishock to speed up the delivery of the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer to Việt Nam in a meeting late Tuesday.
HCM City plans to provide vaccinations to 70 percent of residents aged 18 and over in the sixth vaccination phase, the vice chairman of the city’s People Committee, Dương Anh Đức, said at a press conference on August 3.