Việt Nam News

Patients with locally acquired COVID-19 showing no symptoms, and with no underlying disease or obesity, will now be under a 14-day home quarantine, according to new guidelines released by the HCM City Department of Health on Thursday.

The fight against COVID-19 will be long even when vaccines are available, therefore, there must be new approaches and new solutions, said Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính on Friday.

Cao Văn Vũ, 31, was sent to prison for 40 months for his part in the illegal operation. He will be deported back to Việt Nam after serving his sentence.

The country’s fourth wave of the coronavirus has not even lasted three months, yet Việt Nam was struggling to keep the level of cases under control.

Hundreds of COVID-19 cases have been detected in a company that set up temporary tents for workers to avoid the spread of the coronavirus and maintain production in Bình Dương Province.

The Ministry of Health has confirmed it will do its best to help facilitate the import, licensing and testing of COVID-19 vaccines.

HCM City and neighbouring Tây Ninh Province plan to start building the HCM City-Mộc Bài Expressway at an estimated cost of VNĐ13.61 trillion (US$587 million).

HCM City is deploying the fifth period of COVID-19 vaccination for local people, in which priority is given to people over 65 years old, people with great contribution to the nation and the poor.

Blood transfusion hospitals and centres nation-wide now have faced the most difficult and stressful situation since 2020 so far due to blood shortages because the COVID-19 pandemic is showing very complex developments.

Doctors and medical personnel from three central-level hospitals across Việt Nam will help set up three COVID-19 intensive centres with 3,000 beds in HCM City in a bid to reduce the number of deaths amid rising number of seriously ill patients.

The HCM City Department of Health plans to buy ambulances and call on private hospitals and companies to hand over theirs so that emergency aid teams can transport patients amid the relentlessly rising incidence of COVID-19.

The UK will donate 415,000 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Việt Nam, as the country begins to ship their surplus supply to countries across the world, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has announced.

The Hà Nội-based 108 Military Central Hospital has announced that for the first time, its doctors successfully applied stem cell transplantation to treat a patient with myasthenia gravis - a rare long-term condition that causes muscle weakness.

The Health Ministry on Thursday announced a further 233 deaths related to COVID-19. The pandemic has no claimed 863 lives in Việt Nam.

Đà Nẵng on Thursday started administering Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for 16,800 people, mostly high-risks people in locked down areas or essential service workers, in the phase of allocation between July 29 and August 5.

If you are COVID-19 positive and stay at home or are caring for loved ones who have COVID-19, here is what you need to know to be well-prepared in the fight against the virus. This advice was provided by Deputy Minister of Health Nguyễn Trường Sơn, head of the ministry’s steering board for COVID-19 prevention and control.