Việt Nam News

Việt Nam reported 4,789 new domestic cases of COVID-19 and six imported cases quarantined upon arrival on Tuesday.

HCM City is working on a COVID-19 vaccination plan for consular officers and foreigners in the city.

The HCM City health sector has proposed reducing the time of hospitalisation for  COVID-19 patients who are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms to ten days to reduce hospital overcrowding amid the surging number of cases in the city.

The Vietnam-USA Society English Centers are organising free webinars on teaching English to speakers of other languages. 

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has asked the Ministry of Health (MoH) to draft a plan on the establishment of a national vaccine institute and a research centre for vaccine technology transfer on the basis of re-organising the ministry's existing research facilities. 

More than 20 hotels in HCM City are offering free accommodations and meals for frontline doctors and other medical staff fighting the pandemic.

It is sunny and hot in Đắk Lắk Central Highlands province, and wind blows heat directly into people stooping on the hillsides or fields, groping for buffalo and cow dung.

HCM City’s Department of Industry and Trade has announced a list of 40 traditional markets being opened on social distancing days to facilitate local residents in daily shopping.

Hà Nội has prepared to launch the largest-ever COVID-19 vaccination campaign in a bid to reach herd immunity against the pandemic soon.

More than 1,000 volunteers have received their second jab of the domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine Nano Covax in its third phase of human trials, the Defence Ministry’s Military Medical University has announced.

Việt Nam is expected to receive 3 million doses of Moderna vaccine donated by the US government through COVAX facility this week, said Prof. Dr. Đặng Đức Anh, Director of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology.

In the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, many veterans in the central province of Hà Tĩnh, despite their old ages and limited health – have joined disease prevention and control activities effectively.

High-value specialty crops and livestock are being developed to meet the increasing consumption needs of domestic consumers, in line with the comparative advantage of each locality, but more needs to be done, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Trần Thành Nam has said.

A group of farmers in the southern city of Cần Thơ have been raising funds to fix roads and build bridges for nearly two decades, helping improve their living conditions.

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính on Monday chaired an emergency meeting of the Government with the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control to hear a report on the pandemic.

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính has asked seven ministries to establish special working groups to support HCM City and southern provinces in their fight against the COVID-19 outbreak.