Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh demanded COVID-19 vaccination be further sped up and disease prevention measures strengthened, in an official dispatch issued on January 11.

The first extraordinary session of the 15th National Assembly held via videoconference wrapped up on January 11 after four and a half days of sitting.

The HCM City Department of Health plans to close the Hóc Môn COVID-19 treatment hospital in Hóc Môn District as the number of COVID-19 cases has dropped in recent weeks.

Hundreds of civil servants in Đắk Lắk Province donated blood as part of the programme 'Chủ Nhật Đỏ 2022' (2022 Red Sunday) – a blood donation campaign held at the college on Sunday.

WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific Takeshi Kasai on January 11 said the World Health Organization backs visions and viewpoints in the COVID-19 prevention and control program set out by the Vietnamese Government to flexibly response to new variants.

The remains of almost 17,000 soldiers have been collected over the past eight years.

All 1,000 slots for Son Dong expedition adventure tour to the world’s largest cave in the central province of Quang Binh have been fully booked by domestic visitors for 2022, according to the provincial Department of Tourism.

The 2022 Lunar New Year holiday will last from January 31 through February 4, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has agreed.

Vice Chairman of Hà Nội People’s Committee Dương Đức Tuấn has just approved a plan on renovating and rebuilding old apartment buildings in the capital city.

The Ministry of Public Security’s Traffic Police Department is studying changes to the current car number-plate in an effort to stop drivers from covering their plates with tape to avoid traffic fines.

Seven countries and territories, including the United States, Japan, Singapore, Cambodia, South Korea and China’s Taiwan, have agreed to resume air routes to Vietnam, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam.

Hà Nội is now the epicentre of COVID-19 in Việt Nam with thousands of new patients every day. In response, mobile medical stations have been set up to reduce pressure on hospitals. 

Border guards of central Quang Tri province successfully saved three fishermen in distress at sea on January 11.

The city of Hà Nội continues to be the locality with the most coronavirus cases in the country, registering a record 2,884 new daily COVID-19 infections on Tuesday, as a total of 16,035 transmissions were confirmed nationwide.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) expects to complete the connection of 100 percent of its administrative procedures with the National Single Window (NSW) system in the first quarter of 2022.

Recently, more than 5, 000 children and families in HCM City, who have been hit hard by the pandemic, received food and essential packages from the joint initiative “Delivery for Good” launched by Mastercard in partnership with Grab and UNICEF.

Seven countries and territories, including the United States, Japan, Singapore, Cambodia, South Korea and China’s Taiwan, have agreed to resume air routes to Việt Nam, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Việt Nam (CAAV).

Organisers expect to collect 45,000 - 50,000 blood units in the Chủ Nhật Đỏ 2022 (Red Sunday), a blood donation campaign that will officially open at the People’s Police Academy in Hà Nội on January 16.

WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific Takeshi Kasai said on Tuesday he was impressed with Việt Nam’s COVID-19 inoculation campaign and the high vaccination rate.