Seventy-eight cases confirmed Saturday evening, including 65 community infections Việt Nam reported a record number of new COVID-19 infections in a day since the country's fourth wave of COVID-19.

MoH underlines the importance of protecting COVID-hit hospitals The Minister of Health said it was vital to protect the two central hospitals – the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases and the Cancer Hospital – which were locked down following the detection of local COVID-19 cases.

Domestic COVID-19 outbreak grows as northern localities record new cases The domestic outbreak of COVID-19 grew on Saturday as the northern localities of Hà Nội, Bắc Ninh and Nam Định recorded more than 20 community infections this morning. 

COVID-19 variants are changing the pandemic situation

Recently, the Indian variant of the novel coronavirus has been detected in Việt Nam. At the same time, people who finished 14-day quarantine periods went on to test positive. Hoàng Vũ Mai Phương, Head of Virus Department, National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, talks to Sức khoẻ đời sống (Life and Health) Newspaper about research related to this virus variant.

Yên Bái pulls out all the stops to fight COVID-19 Captain Nguyễn Văn Thắng, of Trấn Yên District’s Traffic Police Team, suspends all his daily work as a traffic police to go to the quarantine station at the intersection IC12 – connecting Yên Bái Province with Nội Bài - Lào Cai Expressway since last Sunday.

HCM City strengthens COVID measures at hospitals, closes schools and gyms HCM City hospitals are on high alert and are taking strict preventive measures against COVID-19 after 42 new cases were recorded at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hà Nội’s Đông Anh District.

Việt Nam records first death from adverse reaction to AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine A 35-year-old female medical worker in the southern province of An Giang died on Thursday of anaphylactic shock after receiving a dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.

Việt Nam sees 40 new local COVID-19 infections, including 11 at National Cancer Hospital The health ministry confirmed 40 domestically transmitted COVID-19 infections on Friday evening, including 11 at the National Cancer Hospital (K Hospital) in Hà Nội, 10 of whom were reported earlier in the day.

Schools in Quảng Ngãi shut down All schools in the central province of Quảng Ngãi were shut down from Thursday afternoon after a local man tested positive for SARS-COV-2 in the morning.

Lockdowns should be as narrow as possible: PM Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính ordered local authorities, depending on the practical situation, to apply lockdown or social distancing measures on the narrowest possible scale and avoid negative impacts on society.