Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on August 23 sent an official dispatch on strengthening COVID-19 prevention and control measures nationwide to Secretaries of municipal and provincial Party Committees, Chairpersons of People’s Committees of centrally-run cities and provinces, ministers and heads of ministry-level and Government agencies.

HCM City health authorities will carry out widespread COVID-19 testing during the two-week stay-at-home order period starting on Monday (August 23).

The HCM City People’s Committee has approved an additional Covid-19 support package worth nearly VNĐ2.6 trillion (US$112.3 million) targeted at more than one million poor workers and 600,000 self-employed workers’ families.

Việt Nam recorded 10,280 new COVID-19 infection cases and 389 COVID-related deaths on Monday, slightly decreasing compared to the two previous days.

HCM City authorities issued an urgent Directive No 11 on COVID-19 prevention on Sunday (Aug 22), following the Government’s order to impose its toughest-ever measures beginning today (Aug 23) that require “everyone to stay at home” and not go out to buy food.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has called on people in HCM City who have recovered from COVID-19 to volunteer to work on the frontlines with medical workers.

More than 35,000 militia members and self-defence troops from the Military Region 7 and Army Corps 4 have arrived in HCM City to help with COVID-19 prevention efforts during the two weeks of social distancing starting on Monday (August 23).

市场新闻网雅虎财经（Yahoo! Finance）刚发表文章称，越南、中国和部分亚洲国家跻身10年来全球经济增长最快的20个国家之列。

Trần Nguyễn Uyên Nghi, an 8th-grade student from Sài Gòn practice school in HCM City's District 5 has won the special prize at a drawing contest on the COVID-19 pandemic.

12月19日，越南卫生部在河内举行了“2023年向新闻媒体提供人民保健政策有关信息”的研讨会。

HCM City, the country’s COVID-19 pandemic hotspot, started the first day of intensified prevention and control measures on Monday, leaving many streets empty as people are told to stay at home.

The central city of Vinh in Nghệ An Province has tightened COVID-19 restrictions, ordering people to 'stay where they are' and not to leave their homes for seven days in the light of the rapidly increasing number of COVID-19 infections.

广平省旅游业提出的目标是2024年接待游客量达450~500万人次，旅游营业收入超过56.5亿越盾。

Polish Ambassador to Việt Nam Wojciech Gerwel on behalf of the Government of Poland on Monday handed over 501,600 AstraZeneca vaccine doses to the Ministry of Health. 

The Czech Republic plans to deliver 250,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Việt Nam this week, and will transfer an additional 500,000 doses in the future, Czech Health Minister Adam Vojtech said.

印尼获得亚洲开发银行（ADB）价值372.2亿印尼盾（240万美元）的技术援助，用于开发东加里曼丹北佩纳扬巴塞尔的印尼新首都努山塔拉(Nusantara)。

越南国家主席武文赏12月19日上午出席在河内举行的越南大学生协会2023-2028年任期第十一次全国代表大会开幕。

12月19日上午，越南文化体育与旅游部在河内举行新闻发布会，公布第一次全国文化产业发展会议相关信息。