The number of daily COVID-19 cases in HCM City fell to 2,349 on the morning of August 5 from 6,318 on July 27, according to the city Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention.    

South Korea’s The Most of Beautiful Tree organisation has inked the first co-operation deal on sustainable development with the central city-based Đông Á University as a deeper approaching friendship tie between Gwangju and Đà Nẵng City.

The Ministry of Transport has agreed to suspend passenger flights to Buôn Ma Thuột from HCM City from August 8 to curb the spread of COVID-19.

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A further 393 people have died of complications related to COVID-19, bringing Việt Nam’s total number of fatalities to 2,720. 

Vietnamese diplomatic missions in Japan will continue to coordinate with Japanese agencies for the urgent investigation into the death of a Vietnamese man in Osaka while implementing necessary citizen protection measures to protect the legitimate rights and interests of Vietnamese citizens, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang informed at a regular press conference of the ministry held online on August 5.

The man’s first name was released as Alberto. He is 26-year-old and is from the Dominican Republic.

German professor Günter Giesenfeld has commented that Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong’s article clarifies Vietnam’s pathway to building socialism in both theoretical and practical aspects.

Veteran painter Đỗ Quang Em, a leading artist of the South’s fine arts, died at home on Tuesday in HCM City. He was 79.

More than 300 medical workers and eight tonnes of medical equipment from Hà Nội-based Việt Đức Hospital reached HCM City on Thursday to help set up an intensive care centre for severe and critical COVID-19 patients.

Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Phu Quoc island have been listed among the world’s 100 greatest places to explore on Earth in 2021 as voted by US-based Time Magazine (Time).

Social network Zalo on August 3 launched tool Zalo Connect which aims to support its users that are facing difficulties amid complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Việt Nam will soon license Remdesivir as a COVID-19 treatment.

The earliest time for students to return to school for the new school year 2021-22 across the country is September 1, 2021.

More than 11,000 students have registered for the second round of the national high school graduation examination, which is scheduled for August 6-7, said Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Huu Do.

Travellers are set to have an opportunity to experience Vietnam’s beauty on trains with steam locomotives.

Members of “Stay Strong Saigon” - a project of young Vietnamese people in the US in coordination with members of the “Vietnam - Unite for Vietnam” project to launch a campaign to donate 20,000 N95 face masks to frontline forces in the COVID-19 fight in Ho Chi Minh City, according to The Gioi va Viet Nam (World and Vietnam) newspaper.

Isolated living environments, well-structured communities and food self-sufficiency have turned villages and islands in central Việt Nam into safe havens against the COVID-19 pandemic.