Việt Nam News

Authorities in Quảng Trị Province have locked down Bàu Hamlet from 9pm on Tuesday night.

Hà Nội’s Health Department has issued an urgent notice to find people who visited the Lộc Vừng bar since August 8 in TT3.13, Tứ Hiệp Commune, Thanh Trì District, regarding a suspected COVID-19 case on Wednesday morning.

Deputy PM Vũ Đức Đam affirmed the key role of the military, including the border guard force, in battling COVID-19 during a working session with the Border Guard High Command on Tuesday.

A woman from Đà Nẵng has been given the all-clear from COVID-19, taking the total number of recoveries nationwide to 400.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has approved the investment plan of the Đồng Đăng-Trà Lĩnh Expressway under the public-private partnership (PPP) model.

The Ministry of Health has called for a crackdown on illegal new modern cigarettes advertising and trading via e-commerce and social networks.

To serve breakfast on time for more than 900 people, the soldiers working in the kitchen have to wake up at 4am to buy ingredients and cook.

A 55-year-old man from the central province of Đà Nẵng died of COVID-19-related complications in the early hours Wednesday morning.

Three Vietnamese citizens repatriated from Japan have all tested positive for COVID-19.

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Fifty-two-year-old Kim Bumjae and 27-year-old Nguyễn Thị Hương from Tân Bình District's Ward 2 in HCM City were arrested for appropriating property by fraud.

A 37-year-old man from the central province of Quảng TrỊ has become the 16th person to die of COVID-19-related complications in Việt Nam, said Deputy Minister of Health Nguyễn Trường Sơn.

Đà Nẵng will extend social distancing measures from Wednesday (August 12) after the first two-week period ended on August 11.

The HCM City Department of Health should continue to thoroughly check transmission sources and risks in the community, the chairman of the city People’s Committee, Nguyễn Thành Phong, said at a recent meeting with the Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

Hà Nội is striving to complete the implementation of RT-PCT testing, a real-time reserve transcription polymerase chain reaction, ahead of August 20 for 75,000 people who visited the central city of Đà Nẵng – a COVID-19 hotspot – and returned to Hà Nội from July 15, according to a leading official.

Doctors, nurses and more than 3,000 residents of the streets celebrated the re-opening of the hospital and the living quarters in the downtown area.

Eight doctors, five nurses and three laboratory technicians have been sent to hospitals in Đà Nẵng and neighbouring Quảng Nam Province in the last two weeks.