26/05/2021
COVID-19: Vietnam reports 45th death, 235 new cases on Wednesday
(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam on Wednesday recorded the 45th death of COVID-19, a 67 year-old female with serious underlying health conditions in Thuan Thanh, Bac Ninh.
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26/05/2021
WHO: Variant first detected in India found in at least 53 countries
(VOVWORLD) - B.1.617, the coronavirus variant first detected in India, has now been officially recorded in 53 countries and territories, a World Health Organization report showed on Wednesday.
26/05/2021
COVID-19: Vietnam records 40 more community cases
(VOVWORLD) - The Ministry of Health announced that an additional 40 Vietnamese people have tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus during the past six hours to 12h noon on Wednesday.
26/05/2021
Nearly 300,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses arrive in Vietnam
(VOVWORLD) - The fourth batch of AstraZeneca vaccine with 288,000 doses arrived at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday night.
26/05/2021
Vietnam’s domestic COVID-19 cases up by 80 on Wednesday morning
(VOVWORLD) - 88 more cases were added to Vietnam’s domestically-transmitted COVID-19 count on May 26 morning, pushing the national tally to 5,931.
25/05/2021
Health Ministry holds urgent meeting as over 300 workers in Bac Giang infected with COVID-19
(VOVWORLD) - The northern province of Bac Giang, Vietnam’s largest COVID-19 hotspot at present, had logged over 300 new infections as of the afternoon of May 25, the Ministry of Health (MoH)’s special taskforce in the province said.
25/05/2021
US calls for independent, transparent investigation into coronavirus origin
(VOVWORLD) - The White House on Monday said it could not confirm a Wall Street Journal report on the origins of COVID-19 that said three researchers from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology sought hospital care in November of 2019 - a month before China reported the first cases of the coronavirus.
25/05/2021
Domestic businesses donate millions of USD to COVID-19 fight
(VOVWORLD) - Vietnamese businesses on Tuesday donated 7.8 million USD and 1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to help contain the spread of the virus in the country.
25/05/2021
PM orders safety measures in industrial parks during COVID-19 resurgence
(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has ordered localities, ministries, and agencies to quickly contain COVID-19 in industrial parks to prevent any disruption of the supply chain.
25/05/2021
UN chief says world ‘at war’ with COVID-19
(VOVWORLD) - The world is “at war” with COVID-19, says UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. He called for the application of wartime logic to the inequitable access to weapons needed to fight the pandemic.
