(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam's Health Ministry is in talks with British COVID-19 vaccine developers AstraZeneca and Oxford University to buy 30 million doses for 15 million people this year.
(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam reported 12 additional imported cases of COVID-19 from 6pm Saturday to 6pm Sunday, according to the Ministry of Health. All of them have been quarantined shortly after their entry into Vietnam. 5 cases are being quarantined in Hanoi and the remaining 7 cases quarantined in Phu Yen province.
(VOVWORLD) - According to worldometers.info, as of Sunday morning, more than 85 million COVID-19 infection cases have been confirmed worldwide, with over 1.84 million fatalities.
(VOVWORLD) - Human trials of a second made-in-Vietnam COVID-19 vaccine will start in January, 2 months ahead of schedule.
(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam has detected its first imported case of the new coronavirus variant that is spreading rapidly around Britain, the Health Ministry said on Saturday.
(VOVWORLD) - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday granted emergency validation to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, opening the door for countries to quickly approve the import and distribution of the vaccine. The BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine is the first to receive such approval from the global body.
(VOVWORLD) - Nearly 280 Vietnamese in more than 30 countries in Europe, Africa and South America were flown back to Vietnam on a flight of Vietnam Airlines at the arrangement of Vietnamese and foreign agencies during the past 2 days.
(VOVWORLD) - The tests of all of the 100 samples of imported frozen food in Ho Chi Minh City have turned out negative for the corona virus SARS-CoV-2, the municipal Food Safety Management Authority said on Wednesday.
(VOVWORLD) - An additional two imported COVID-19 cases were confirmed on Wednesday, raising the national tally to 1,456, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
(VOVWORLD) - A man tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday after contact with a Vietnamese border jumper who was confirmed as COVID-19 patient 1440 in Vietnam last week.
