People who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or have been declared recovered coming from outbreak regions will not have to put under centralised quarantine, according to the latest guidelines from the health ministry to local authorities.

VPBank handed over more than 1,000 ventilators to 19 cities and provinces in the southern region as the COVID-19 pandemic's fourth wave has caused a severe shortage.

President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has sent a letter of sympathy to Agent Orange/dioxin victims and their families.

The National Committee for Ethics in Biomedical Research under the Ministry of Health on Saturday held an urgent online meeting to review the results of the first phase of clinical trials of Việt Nam’s domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine, Nano Covax, and to approve the mid-term results of its second phase.

The number of COVID-19 patients in Việt Nam has topped 200,000 after 7,334 new cases were reported on Saturday. The country's caseload now stands at 200,715.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has sent a letter of sympathy to Agent Orange/dioxin victims and their families on the occasion of Day for AO/dioxin victims (August 10).

Nearly 300,000 disadvantaged trade union members, public employees and workers hit by the COVID-19 pandemic received assistance worth over 465.8 billion VND (20.25 million USD), reported the Ho Chi Minh City Labour Confederation on August 7.

Vietnamese Ambassador to France Dinh Toan Thang hailed the France-Vietnam Medical Federation’s contributions to bilateral health care ties during a working session on August 6.

Three COVID-19 intensive care units with doctors and medical personnel coming from three central-level hospitals across the country opened on Saturday (August 7) in HCM City.

Dr Kidong Park, Representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Việt Nam, has made recommendations for the country on COVID-19 prevention and control in the fourth wave of outbreaks, in which he emphasised vaccinations and affirmed that the organisation will accompany Việt Nam.

Two geographical information system applications to help people shop online and authorities monitor the COVID-19 pandemic, trialled for one month in Thủ Đức City, will now be expanded to 11 districts in HCM City.

Social network Zalo has launched tool Zalo Connect which aims to support its users that are facing difficulties amid complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Organisations, collectives and craftsmen from 18 countries, including Việt Nam, have the opportunity to receive financial support for the sustainable development of traditional handicrafts.

A proposal for the celebration of Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Đình Chiểu’s 200th birthday anniversary is expected to be approved by the UNESCO General Assembly in November. 

The HCM City Journalists Association has handed over essential medical supplies donated by 42 central and municipal media agencies to five hospitals for them to respond to COVID-19 .

As of August 5, nearly 3.5 million Vietnamese people have had an online certificate of COVID-19 vaccination.

The HCM City People's Committee has approved a second COVID-19 support package targeted at self-employed workers, poor households and poor workers worth more than VNĐ900 billion (US$ 39.2 million)