HCM City has decided to convert some 20,000 square metres of public land into residential land to resettle nearly 200 households in the Thủ Thiêm new urban area whose lands it wrongfully took over.

According to a recent survey in the UK, in the summer parents tend to give their children up to five times more sweetened foods than any other time of year. A survey of 1,000 couples with children between the ages of two and 17 found that sugar intake spiked as children began summer holidays.

“No one can tell for certain that the coronavirus has been completely eliminated in the community,” said Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam. 

HCM City’s Department of Tourism has asked authorities in all districts to take measures to control the spread of disease in rental apartments and lodging facilities.

The Việt Nam National Administration of Tourism is making preparations for a recovery of the tourism market amid a new COVID-19 outbreak.

Some 867,000 high school students across the country sat the national graduation exam on Sunday amid the complexities of the COVID-19 pandemic in Việt Nam.

Requirements on adaptation to climate change will be integrated into the nation’s strategies and master plans, according to the national plan on adaption to climate change during 2021-30, with a vision toward 2050.

Việt Nam on Sunday evening recorded 29 new community transmission COVID-19 cases in three central provinces, all connected to the outbreak in Đà Nẵng City, bringing the country’s total to 841. 

The woman, living in Hải Châu II Ward, Hải Châu District of the central city, was identified as Việt Nam’s 456th COVID-19 patient. 

More than 600 Vietnamese citizens were flown home from Cyprus, Saudi Arabia and Australia in the last three days on a repatriation flight run by national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has ordered relevant ministries, authorities and heads of the provincial and centrally-run cities to exert efforts so as to ensure traffic safety in face of the raging COVID-19 pandemic.

Pandemic-hit localities must ensure sufficient reserves of materials for timely COVID-19 tests, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc ordered at a recent meeting of the permanent cabinet members on the fight against the pandemic.

A hospital linked to the latest COVID-19 outbreak in Vietnam's central region has reopened to the public, two weeks after it was placed under strict lockdown.

Two more COVID-19 community infections were announced Sunday morning, including one in Hà Nội.

The 20 new cases of community transmission relating to Đà Nẵng City and one imported COVID-19 case means the country has now recorded 810 cases.

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The northern province of Phu Tho and Binh Dinh province in the central region on August 8 sent medical workers to the central province of Quang Nam to support its fight against COVID-19.