Vietnamese citizens quarantined after their repatriations flight back home have only three words to say: “Thank you soldiers.”

The Ministry of Transport has recently proposed an expansion project for Khuyến Lương Port, one of the capital city's four key ports.

The National Hospital for Tropical Diseases has called on recovered COVID-19 patients to donate plasma, which would be used to treat critically ill patients.

Since July 25, there have been 298 community infections linked to Đà Nẵng.

Representatives of Central Retail Vietnam Group on August 6 handed over 10 tonnes of vegetables and fruits to units in the central city of Da Nang as part of its support for the local fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

For some of the health workers at Đà Nẵng's emergency centre, fighting COVID-19 means staying at work and not seeing their families for weeks. But these “soldiers in white coats” are far from yielding to pressure.

Standing Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh urged the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) to accelerate administrative reform, focusing on institutional development and ensuring a uniform institutional system to meet State management requirements in the fields that it is responsible for.

Vietnamese authorities and representative offices in the US and Japan, Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet coordinated with relevant agencies of the two countries to conduct two flight bringing home nearly 350 Vietnamese citizens from US and 220 from Japan on August 5 and 6.

The Department of Information and Communications of central Da Nang city said on August 6 that it has piloted a database on COVID-19 patients.

More than 80 flights have been operated so far, bringing home safely more than 21,000 Vietnamese citizens from some 50 countries and territories, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang has said.

Việt Nam confirmed 30 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday evening including a one-year-old and a 7-year-old girl. 

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One more health centre – the fifth medical base – in the central city has been locked down for cleaning.

Việt Nam confirmed the tenth COVID-19 related fatality on Thursday afternoon, second in a day.

“Thank you, soldiers!” This is the heartfelt sentiment of Vietnamese citizens returning home from overseas and quarantined at facilities in south-central Khanh Hoa province’s military units towards those who have cared for them in recent days.

The HCM City People’s Committee has decided to suspend summer activities for children to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Based on the data on the virus infections, health experts highly recommended that for the next 10 days, people should be very cautious and strictly implement preventive measures.

A ceremony was held in Hà Nội on Wednesday to receive a batch of medicine from Cuba to help Việt Nam fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

The region-based minimum wage should not be adjusted in 2021, according to Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Lê Văn Thanh, chairman of the National Wage Council.