Việt Nam News

Besides modern medical techniques and equipment, traditional medicines are used to assist COVID-19 treatment in Việt Nam.

Tech giant VNG has launched the "Sai Gon Bao Dung” project in which a digital platform will help connect charity organisations, sponsors and disadvantaged people amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

HCM City’s 1,465m Thủ Thiêm 2 Bridge over the Sài Gòn River between District 1 and the newly created Thủ Đức City is expected to open to traffic in the second quarter of next year.

The Ministry of Health has alerted people not to buy or hoard ventilators, medical oxygen generators or oxygen cylinders as it will waste money, lead to a shortage of supplies and cause difficulties for medical facilities that need to buy machines for patients in need.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Kiên Giang plans to grant traceability codes between July and September to all households breeding brackish water shrimp.

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.