Việt Nam News

The National Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control on Monday evening announed 80 new deaths between July 9 and 19 in HCM City and five other provinces.

The northern province of Lai Châu started to give Sinopharm’s Vero Cell COVID-19 vaccine shots to residents in border communes in Phong Thổ District on Monday.

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính on Monday told Hà Nội’s leaders to give priority to protecting the capital from the further spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Photos of people who died of COVID-19 posted on social media in Việt Nam are images of Myanmar and are not Vietnamese people, according to the Việt Nam Anti-Fake News Centre (VAFC) under the Ministry of Information and Communications’s Authority of Broadcasting and Electronic Information.

The Ministry of Health has asked hospitals nationwide to strengthen health check-up and treatment services to ensure enough resources for COVID-19 patients.

Only pilots who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 are eligible to operate flights, the Civil Aviation Authority of Việt Nam (CAAV) said in a new directive on mandatory measures for flight safety.

Over the past month, Nguyễn Thị Hải, a cook at Tô Hiến Thành Primary School in Hà Tĩnh, has been busy cooking even though the students are on their summer vacation.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Tiền Giang, the country's largest fruit producer, has spent more than VNĐ134 billion (US$5.8 million) to upgrade or build irrigation projects this year, securing irrigation water for nearly 172,000ha of farming areas.

While the COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the tourism industry and hit industrial production hard, agriculture and community-based agro-forest production have proven resilient in the tourism-intensive central region.

A national online meeting was held on Sunday to find solutions to ensure essential goods for the south when applying social distancing in 19 southern provinces and cities.

The Ministry of Transport has announced an airport development plan that would expand Hà Nội-based Nội Bài International Airport to serve 100 million passengers per year, but has denied a request for a second airport in the capital city until at least 2030.

Việt Nam on Sunday reported highest daily spike of 5,926 COVID cases, putting the total cases in the country at 53,830 cases.

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The Civil Aviation Authority of Việt Nam (CAAV) recently sent a dispatch asking domestic airlines to suspend flights to and from airports in several southern cities and provinces that are under strict social distancing measures from Monday.

The Treatment Subcommittee of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control on Sunday announced 29 more COVID-19 deaths.

The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Transport have reached an agreement on the testing protocol for truckers, a move that will likely solve the shortage of essential goods experienced by residents of HCM City recently.