A delegation of the Ministry of Health led by Minister Nguyen Thanh Long arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on August 15 afternoon to work with the city's authorities in COVID-19 prevention and control.

The Ministry of Public Security (MPS) will share data from the National Population Database to help manage COVID-19 vaccinations.

The Vietnam Youth Initiative Programme – InnoCity 2021 will be officially launched at a ceremony held in both in-person and online forms on August 19.

VOV.VN - A seven-day lockdown has come into force starting from 8 a.m. on August 16 in centrally-governed Da Nang, with measures leaving the central city vastly different compared to normal days.

VOV.VN - Binh Duong, an industrial complex hub in the south and the second largest COVID-19 hotspot in Vietnam, is moving to strengthen prevention and control efforts due to a rise in new cases in the locality.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has put a number of well-equipped intensive care unit (ICU) centres into operation, with experienced doctors making great efforts to treat critically-ill patients in an attempt to minimise the mortality rate.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City, the largest coronavirus hotspot in Vietnam, is trying to minimize new infection cases and step up vaccinations in an effort to gradually bring the city to a ‘new normal’ status in one month’s time, according to a senior municipal Party official.

All Vietnamese people will have equal opportunities to access an open, diverse, flexible and modern education system by 2030, thus contributing to promoting the development of human resources, especially high-quality ones, to meet the requirements of the Industry 4.0 and international integration.

VOV.VN - A total of 9,580 positive COVID-19 cases, including 6 imported infections were confirmed by the Ministry of Health on August 15, pushing up the national tally to more than 275,000.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on August 14 asked the Management Board of President Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum to continue well preserving the construction and the embalmed body of the late leader.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese Government has agreed to buy a further 20 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, as part of the deal for 31 million doses of the vaccine as adopted by the Ministry of Health in May.

Refuse is still being collected despite Hanoi announcing its decision to extend stringent citywide social distancing and citizens having to stay at home for 15 more days until August 23.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese Embassy in South Africa presented 100,000 face masks to the representative missions of Namibia and Botswana in Pretoria on August 13 to help the two African nations combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

For the first time, a representative of Vietnamese youth has attended and delivered a speech at a special plenary session held by the Conference on Disarmament (CD) on the occasion of the International Youth Day (August 12).

The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee has received over VND7.02 trillion (US$308.8 million) in donations to help with the national COVID-19 relief efforts since May 1, Vice Chairman and Secretary-General Le Tien Chau said at an event on August 13.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health recorded an additional 9,716 COVID-19 infections, including 6 imported ones, over the past 24 hours to 6 p.m. on August 14, a rise of 536 from the previous day.

The Le Monde newspaper of France has recently posted an article of the Collectif Vietnam-Dioxine association, calling on French politicians and the international community to support victims of Agent Orange (AO) in Vietnam and designate a day in commemoration of the victims.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had great impact on the labour market, with an increase in the unemployment rate, according to the Department of Employment of the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA). ​

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City is continuing to speed up its vaccination campaign, with 93,993 doses being administered to local people on August 13.

VOV.VN - As many as 100 Vietnamese volunteers are poised to be given their first shot of the ARCT-154 vaccine on August 15, making it the third locally-produced vaccine against COVID-19 to be trialed.

In recent days, many checkpoints have been set up to protect COVID-free areas known as "green zones" to prevent the spread of the virus in the capital city of Hanoi.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on August 13 visited and presented gifts to frontline forces performing COVID-19 prevention and prevention activities and locals in some areas in the capital city.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health reported a total 9,180 more new COVID-19 infections, including 30 imported cases on August 13, a drop of 503 from the previous day.

Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long suggested localities adopt three-tiered COVID-19 treatment model to minimise fatality rate during a video teleconference (VTC) on August 13 morning.

Having lost their jobs and being unable to return home as there are no international flights, many Vietnamese workers in Malaysia are struggling to cope with the fallout from COVID-19.

VOV.VN - Sovico Group in coordination with the Government has contributed to the ongoing fight against the COVID-19 pandemic by donating 200 high-quality German ventilators.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) has completed an initial report on maritime environment and national islands during the 2016 to 2020 period, Ta Dinh Thi, director general of the Vietnam Administration of Seas and Islands (VASI) said on August 13.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City, currently the nation’s largest COVID-19 hotspot, has mapped out a plan to intensify anti-pandemic measures by dividing the next month into two periods, from August 15 to August 30 and from September 1-9 in a bid to bring the pandemic under control by September.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City is set to extend social distancing measures until September 15, the date set by the Government for the southern metropolis to bring its severe COVID-19 outbreaks under control, according to Phan Van Mai, Deputy Secretary of the municipal Party Committee.

VOV.VN - A further 1.1 million doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine arrived on August 13 at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City.