Deputy Health Minister Truong Quoc Cuong on July 23 received 150,000 boxes of medicines worth VND62.6 billion from AstraZenaca to help treat patients with non-communicables diseases amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The programme to assist businesses in digital transformation for the 2021-2025 period of the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the USAID-funded Linkages for Small and Medium Enterprises (LinkSME) project have announced a support package to help enterprises promote digital transformation.

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) on July 23 issued a document on intensifying the handling of fake news and untrue information about COVID-19 on the internet.

The People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City has asked for more medical staff to support its COVID-19 prevention and control efforts.

VOV.VN - Vietnam confirmed an additional 3,397 locally transmitted and 12 imported COVID-19 cases in 30 cities and provinces nationwide during the past 12 hours, raising its daily caseload to 7,307, a record high figure.

VOV.VN - The authorities of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest coronavirus hotspot in Vietnam, began a week-long disinfection campaign on July 23 over an initial 3,000ha area and 1,000-km road as part of efforts to prevent the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

VOV.VN - As many as 8,468 COVID-19 patients have recovered and have been discharged from hospital in Ho Chi Minh City since the resurgence of the virus in late April, according to the HCM City Centre for Disease Control (HCDC)

VOV.VN - A tropical low depression is moving along the northern and central coasts of Vietnam, bringing torrential rain to coastal localities of the northern and central regions.

VOV.VN - Roughly 100 COVID-19 patients in critical condition and 300 severely-ill patients are currently receiving treatment at a COVID-19 rehabilitation hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, the largest coronavirus hotspot in Vietnam.

The Ministry of Health has decided to allocate 63 specialised trucks for COVID-19 vaccine transport, produced by Truong Hai Auto Corporation (THACO), to seven military regions across the country under the management of the Ministry of National Defence.

Vietnam aims to use 100% of environmentally-friendly plastic bags and packaging at shopping malls and supermarkets by 2025, according to a project on strengthening management of plastic waste in Vietnam approved by Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh on July 22.

More than 2,000 medical devices and supplies have been transported to a field storage serving COVID-19 prevention and control activities in Ho Chi Minh City - the country's current largest pandemic hotspot, and other southern localities.

The Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) of Ho Chi Minh City said on July 22 that it had sent an official dispatch to authorized agencies, proposing the use of its religious establishments as temporary COVID-19 treatment hospitals and quarantine facilities for Buddhist monks and nuns.

VOV.VN - As Vietnam’s largest COVID-19 hotspot, Ho Chi Minh City has introduced more restrictive measures in an effort to curb the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus due to continued transmission throughout the locality.

VOV.VN - A plane carrying more than 1.2 million AstraZeneca vaccine doses touched down at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport on July 23 morning.

The Ho Chi Minh City High Command will disinfect the entire city, especially areas with complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic, in the next seven days.

Nguyen Kim Anh and her co-workers have won an award from a Japanese prestigious journal for their research on the salinity situation in the Mekong basin.

The border guard force of the northern province of Lao Cai joined talks with the border control force of Honghe county in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan on July 22 to review their collaboration since 2019, and discuss measures to strengthen border control in the coming time.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Science and Technology met on July 22 to examine Nanogen’s proposal to approve its COVID-19 vaccine Nano Covax for emergency use in Vietnam following the encouraging results of its human clinical trials, phase III.

VOV.VN - Vietnam confirmed an additional 3,898 locally acquired coronavirus cases in 21 cities and provinces across the country during the past 12 hours, with Ho Chi Minh City alone registering more than 3,300 cases.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health reported the detection of 3,227 additional COVID-19 cases on the evening of July 22, thereby raising the daily infection count to 6,194.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese Government always takes heed to and ensures medical care and health safety of foreigners in the nation, including citizens of the Republic of Korea (RoK), especially in the context of complicated nature of the COVID-19 pandemic.

VOV.VN - A haul of three million doses of the Mordena COVID-19 vaccine donated by the United States through the Covax Facility will arrive in the country on July 25, according to Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang.

Star Telecom (Unitel), a joint venture between Viettel Global and Lao Asia Telecom in Laos, has presented the Lao Ministry of Defence US$3 million to support the development of the country’s military.

VOV.VN - A large number of foreign nationals residing in Ho Chi Minh City have continued their daily life while complying with the southern city’s strict social distancing measures amid the ongoing struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic.

VOV.VN - The northern province of Thai Binh has scrambled to stamp out a bird flu outbreak after the A/H5N8 virus strain was detected at a poultry farm in the locality.

Five national COVID-19 intensive care units (ICUs) will be set up in hospitals in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Thua Thien-Hue under a project discussed at a meeting in Hanoi on July 21.

The eighth Vietnam-Republic of Korea Women’s Forum was held in Hanoi on July 21, exploring the impact of digital technology on women’s participation in economic activities and finding solutions to existing problems.

VOV.VN - The Health Ministry confirmed 2,967 more people positive for the SARS-CoV-2-virus on July 22 morning, bringing the national tally to 71,144 since the pandemic hit the nation early last year.

VOV.VN - Vietnam confirmed an additional 2,568 locally transmitted and two imported COVID-19 cases in 24 cities and provinces nationwide during the past 12 hours, raising its daily caseload to 5,357.