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Healthcare reaches remote communities under new national health policy

High school graduation exam starts tomorrow

Students nationwide will do their literature tests on Wednesday morning and maths in the afternoon of the same day.

City’s largest wholesale market closed after dozens of COVID cases detected

The Bình Điền wholesale market in HCM City’s District 8 was closed at 8am on Tuesday (July 6) until further notice after the city’s largest wholesale market recorded at least 39 locally transmitted cases through mass COVID-19 testing.

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Hà Nội reports 10 COVID-19 cases, disrupting 10 days without infections

The new cases have not been officially confirmed by the health ministry yet.

Payments from HCM City relief package to be made in seven days

As many as 230,000 informal and freelance workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in HCM City will receive financial assistance from the second financial relief package worth VNĐ886 billion (US$38.58 million) in the next three weeks.

First 100,000 Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses slated to arrive in Việt Nam on Wednesday

This is part of the order of 31 million doses for 2021 with the health ministry, with planned delivery of 3 million in third quarter and 28 million in fourth quarter.

Four more COVID-19 deaths announced, bringing total to 94

Four more COVID-19 deaths were announced on Tuesday morning, all of them elderly women with serious underlying health issues in Hà Nội, Nghệ An, Hà Tĩnh and HCM City.

More employment opportunities for students in central Việt Nam

An employment promotion centre has been launched in HCM City offering job opportunities at foreign direct investment (FDI) businesses for students in central Việt Nam after they graduate.

Unsung heroes at laboratories help break the back of COVID

Lab technicians at HCM City hospitals work diligently at night to test samples for COVID-19 and provide the results as soon as possible to the city Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention to help quickly track down patients and trace their contacts to slow down transmission within the community.

Priority given to vaccine production, science application in health sector

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính has assigned the Ministry of Science and Technology to coordinate the research and production of COVID-19 vaccines within the national product development programme by 2030 amid complicated developments of the pandemic nationwide.

277 new COVID-19 cases reported on Tuesday morning

Record of 1,102 new COVID-19 cases announced on Monday

HCM City topped the list of most infections with 641, followed by Đồng Tháp Province (165) and Bình Dương Province (131).

527 new cases of COVID-19 reported on Monday evening

More provinces stop HCM City flights over COVID-19 concerns

The Ministry of Transport has approved a proposal by the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) to stop flights from HCM City to Thanh Hóa, Thừa Thiên-Huế, and Quảng Nam provinces with effect from July 5 to curb the spread of COVID-19.

Hà Nội's education department proposes reopening schools on July 10

Hà Nội’s education department has proposed municipal authorities allow students to return to schools between July 10-24, after a two-month long pause to contain the COVID-19 outbreak.

Deputy PM Đam urges HCM City to use technology to fight virus

Since the pandemic hit Việt Nam in January last year, the country has confirmed 20,261 cases - 18,403 locally transmitted infections and 1,858 imported from overseas.

Lâm Đồng expands organic farming by 1,600 hectares

28 Asian news editors and journalists begin Young Media Leaders Fellowship

HCM City improves tracing, sampling as COVID rages

HCM City’s COVID-19 investigation, tracing and sampling have improved in effectiveness in the last few days even as new daily incidence has hit triple digits, the city Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention said.

Fish sent from coastal province as gifts to virus-hit HCM City

Members of the Quảng Bình Tourism Club felt relieved to see the fish they sent from the central province of Quảng Bình arrived in HCM City on Sunday morning after nearly thirty hours of travel.