VOV.VN - Coronavirus cases in Ho Chi Minh City are likely to increase in the coming days as it is conducting extensive COVID-19 testing for all residents during the latest social distancing period, according to the city’s Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on August 23 issued an official dispatch on strengthening COVID-19 prevention and control measures nationwide.

Adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic growth of Vietnam’s key cities, such as Hanoi and HCMC, has been slower, the exodus of migrant workers leaving HCMC may make the path of recovery planned by enterprises more bumpy.

Entrusted by the Government, the army is determined to use all means and forces, within and even beyond its ability, together with HCM City, the southern provinces of Binh Duong, Long An and Dong Nai and other COVID-19-hit localities, to wipe out the pandemic and bring people’s life to normal.

The Viettel Military Industry and Telecoms Group (Viettel) on August 23 put into operation two innovation labs equipped with the most modern 4.0 technology in Southeast Asia, based in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

VOV.VN - As many as 72 patients and their caregivers at the Hemodialysis Unit of Dong Thap province’s Civil Military Hospital in the Mekong Delta have tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

District offices in Bangkok are developing and upgrading their transparency performance in providing services to the general public through the use of the Integrity and Transparency Assessment (ITA) mechanism.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Don Pramudwinai underlined COVID-19 vaccines as a humanitarian necessity at the First Meeting of the International Forum on COVID-19 Vaccine Cooperation.

VOV.VN - A further 10,280 people were detected to be positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus over the past 24 hours to 6 p.m. on August 23, including 10,266 domestic infections and 14 imported cases, according to the Ministry of Health.

Representatives from 100 businesses and non-traditional education and training units signed a commitment to provide training for human resources in the digital revolution in Vietnam.

The Central Advisory Council on Amnesty (CACA) convened a meeting on August 23 to review the list of inmates nominated for amnesty on a case-by-case basis before it is submitted to President Nguyen Xuan Phuc for approval.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City has decided to tighten its current restrictions as a means of curbing the recent spike in daily COVID-19 infections, with local residents required to "stay where they are".

VOV.VN - Polish Ambassador to Vietnam Wojciech Gerwel handed over 501,600 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to the Ministry of Health on the morning of August 23.

Border guards in the central province of Quang Tri have busted a trans-border drug trafficking ring from Laos to Vietnam, seizing 46kg of crystal meth, the provincial Border Guard Command announced on August 23.

The Canada-Vietnam Friendship Society (CVFS) on August 22 held a webinar marking the 76th anniversary of the August Revolution (August 19) and the National Day of Vietnam (September 2).

VOV.VN - A batch of 300,000 Molnupiravir pills used to treat COVID-19 patients is projected to arrive in Ho Chi Minh City, the nation's current largest coronavirus hotspot, on August 23, according to newswire Zing News.

VOV.VN - Both military and public security forces have been mobilised to assist Ho Chi Minh City in its ongoing fight against COVID-19.

VOV.VN - A local research team working on developing Nano Covax, a homegrown COVID-19 vaccine, have unveiled the promising outcomes of the mid-term phase 3a clinical trials.

A delegation of the Ia O border guard station in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai met their Cambodian counterparts on August 22 to discuss joint work to protect border areas and fight COVID-19 pandemic.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has detected an additional 11,214 coronavirus infections during the past 24 hours, raising its national cumulative tally of infections to nearly 350,000, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said in its coronavirus update on August 22 evening.

The Vietnamese Consulate General in Japan’s Fukuoka raised JPY776,000 (US$7,066) for Vietnam’s COVID-19 vaccine fund at a virtual fundraising event held on August 21.

VOV.VN - The coronavirus outbreak in Binh Duong is hitting its peak as the numbers of new infections and recoveries are levelling off, according to Assoc. Prof. & Dr. Nguyen Lan Hieu, director of the Hanoi Medical University.

VOV.VN - Experts have been examining the source of COVID-19 infection at the centrally-run psychiatric hospital in Dong Nai’s Bien Hoa city after 62 patients there were infected with the virus.

VOV.VN - In an effort to establish ‘green’ zones (or safe zones), the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho has accelerated a COVID-19 testing campaign to early detect and separate all F0 cases from the community.

Barriers erected all over the streets and goods transacted through barriers are unprecedented scenes in the Hanoi Old Quarter.

VOV.VN - A Malaysian Airlines plane carrying 50,000 vials of Remdesivir, a much-sought-after drug to treat COVID-19 globally, touched down at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City late August 21.

VOV.VN - The municipal administration of Da Nang city decided on August 21 to extend the central city’s lockdown period for an additional three days, banning people from going out in order to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

VOV.VN - An additional 11,321 coronavirus cases have been recorded in Vietnam during the past 24 hours, a record high figure since the start of the outbreak in Vietnam.

Cambodia has lifted exit and entry restrictions on Vietnamese citizens who are employees and experts of Vietnamese firms in the country, the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation said on August 20.

In response to the call of the President, the Prime Minister, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee, and the Ministry of Foreign Affair, the Vietnamese community in Russia has raised 10 million rubles (nearly US$150,000) to support the country’s COVID-19 vaccine fund.