(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam has received 300 vaccine refrigerators funded by the Government of Japan through UNICEF, of which 100 refrigerators have arrived in Ho Chi Minh City Port and another 200 in Hai Phong Port, UNICEF Vietnam announced on Friday.
(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam on Friday reported 27,250 new recoveries from COVID-19, raising the total number of recoveries to 636,081.
(VOVWORLD) - At least one long-term COVID-19 symptom was found in 37% of patients three to six months after they were infected by the virus, according to a large study from Oxford University and the National Institute for Health Research.
(VOVWORLD) - One million doses of the Hayat-Vax COVID-19 vaccine manufactured in China and packaged in the UAE arrived in Hanoi on Friday, VnExpress reported.
(VOVWORLD) - Ho Chi Minh city has begun gradual easing of social distancing rules.
(VOVWORLD) - The national COVID-19 prevention and control app, PC-Covid Viet Nam, is now available on App Store and CH Play for smartphones using iOS or Android.
(VOVWORLD) - 25,322 COVID-19 patients in Vietnam fully recovered on Thursday, according to the Ministry of Health. This was the highest number of recoveries reported so far bringing the total to 608,831.
(VOVWORLD) - Russia has reported 857 new coronavirus-related deaths, a single-day record since the pandemic began. The daily death toll, the second consecutive day a record was hit, brings Russia's total deaths from COVID-19 to more than 206,000.
(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam is starting phases 2 and 3 of its human clinical trial of the ARCT-154 vaccine against COVID-19 following the encouraging results of the first phase.
(VOVWORLD) - From 5 p.m. on Tuesday to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Vietnam recorded 8,758 COVID-19 cases, of which 14 were imported and 8,744 were locally-transmitted in 33 provinces and cities.
