Việt Nam News

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.

Finnish educators are looking forward to welcoming more and more high school Vietnamese students to study in their country.

HCM CITY— HCM City is considering extending its current social distancing period for one to two weeks as part of an effort to curb the increasing number of COVID-19 cases, Phan Văn Mãi, deputy secretary of the HCM City Party Committee, said at a press meeting on July 28.

AstraZeneca delivered additionally 659,900 COVID-19 vaccines doses to HCM City on Thurday morning.

Construction of the 9.4km-long Road 319, which will improve goods transport between industrial parks in Đồng Nai Province and HCM City, is expected to be completed by the end of this month after nearly four years of construction.

Việt Nam needs to have better solutions to integrate drowning prevention and control in climate change programmes, particularly interested in young children.

More than 100 new COVID-related deaths have been recorded in Việt Nam, taking the total number of fatalities to 630.

Farmers have failed to sell their farm produce while consumers have difficulties to access food sources in the southern provinces because of the restriction of travel and the closures of both wholesale and retailed markets.

Strong winds and rain damaged many houses in the Cửu Long Delta provinces of Hậu Giang and An Giang and Cần Thơ City on Tuesday (July 27).