(VOVWORLD) - 20 million Vietnamese people will be beneficiaries of the government’s aid package to cope with the Covid-19 epidemic, said Minister of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung.
(VOVWORLD) - Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son emphasized the importance of international cooperation in the COVID-19 fight during the third phone talks with leaders of the ministries of foreign affairs of the US, Japan, the Republic of Korea (RoK), India, Australia and New Zealand on Friday.
(VOVWORLD) - The novel coronavirus outbreak is affecting 205 countries and territories around the world with more than 1 million infected cases and and nearly 60,000 deaths as of Saturday, according to Worldometers.
(VOVWORLD) -Here's American Kyo York's performance of a COVID-19 song in both English and Vietnamese, adapted from Trong Com (Cylindrical Drum), a popular folk song of Vietnam's northern region.
(VOVWORLD) - 5 more COVID-19 patients were declared making a full recovery on Saturday, bringing the total number of discharged patients in Vietnam so far to 90, said the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control.
(VOVWORLD) - Hoi An ancient town in Quang Nam province is less crowded these days because of the COVID-19 epidemic. The hundreds of foreign tourists who have been stranded here by flight cancellations are being provided with everything they need to wait it out. The local administration and service providers are doing all they can to accommodate their foreign guests.
(VOVWORLD) -The Ministry of Health Friday afternoon reported 4 more people, including three foreign citizens, have tested positive for the coronavirus, raising the number of infection cases to 237.
(VOVWORLD) -Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup has registered to produce ventilators and will distribute them to the Vietnamese market in the second half of this month, said Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung on Friday.
(VOVWORLD) -Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on Friday emphasized the importance of a proper treatment guideline for COVID-19 patients, which he said has not yet been finalized globally.
(VOVWORLD) -Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Friday urged aggressive implementation of social distancing without hesitation or worries about economic impacts.
