Minister of Health Nguyễn Thanh Long has discussed with leaders of Bình Dương the establishment of an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients in one of the southern province's hospitals.

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính has called on cities and provinces to prioritise vaccination of people living in Covid-19 hotspots like HCM City and provinces with a large number of industrial parks.

Police of the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong on July 30 presented gifts and medical supplies worth 100 million VND (4,300 USD) to help their counterpart in Cambodia’s Mondulkiri province fight COVID-19.

The central city of Đà Nẵng and Hội An ancient town will begin social distancing orders under Directive 16 from 6pm on Saturday, strengthening drastic measures to control the spread of COVID-19.

Young singers have released new MVs on YouTube this summer to introduce more fans via social media to their music amid the Covid-19 pandemic. 

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Bạc Liêu is promoting organic and other high-quality standards for rice and key agricultural products as well as agro-tourism services in a bid to raise farmers' incomes.

Doctors at HCM City hospitals continue to get severe COVID-19 patients, and try all they can to keep fatalities low, including performing caesarean sections on some to deliver babies. 

Learning languages that were not too popular in the past is becoming a new trend among youths.  

The quality of skilled labour in Việt Nam is still not meeting minimum standards, according to Lê Thị Xuân Quỳnh, an official from the Central Institute for Economic Management.

Weaving is the most important craft in the Nung’s life. It is handed down from mother to daughter. All Nung families used to have looms and the number of looms equaled to that of daughters they had. Apart from housework and child care and nurturing, Nung women have to be good at cotton cultivation and weaving.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Kiên Giang is taking measures to develop the collective economy in the 2021- 25 period in an aim to improve efficiency and produce high-value products.

More than 5,000 people have fled pandemic hotspots and locked-down zones to return to their hometowns in motorbike caravans that sometimes number upwards of 100 people.

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue on July 20 called on deputies to uphold their sense of responsibility and raise initiatives to help the legislature improve its operational quality and efficiency.

As the situation has become worse in HCM City and other southern provinces, staff at the Hà Nội Centre for Diseases Centre (CDC) have been racing against time to complete a huge workload each day to prevent a similar situation in the capital.

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A total of 10 food delivery buses have been deployed across HCM City in an attempt to secure food supplies for city residents as part of a joint initiative between HCM City authorities and Phenikaa MaaS Technology JSC (Phenikaa MaaS).

Lam Kin Chung, President of Zhang Yang Group Holdings Ltd Hong Kong (China), was awarded the Honorary Doctor Degree by the Hanoi University during a ceremony held at the Consulate General of Vietnam in Hong Kong on July 30.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on July 30 announced that it will present some medical devices for COVID-19 treatment worth about 120 million JPY (1.1 million USD) to Ho Chi Minh City.

Việt Nam recorded 8,622 domestically transmitted COVID-19 infections along with 27 imported cases in the past 24 hours, making this the second-highest daily new cases since the beginning of the pandemic, pushing the total in the fourth wave to 133,257.