The Steve Bui and Friends Foundation on July 30 presented 30,000 N95 medical masks to Ho Chi Minh City to support the city in controlling COVID-19 pandemic.

The United Associations of Vietnamese Students in Australia’s New South Wales (UAVS-NSW) has launched its IT idea competition UAVS Hackatrix "Fix the Glitch" 2021.

VOV.VN - President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has underlined the necessity of protecting citizens’ health and safety whilst minimising the fatalities caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The military-run telecom provider Viettel has put into operation a COVID-19 vaccination management platform capable of updating 5 million shots per day.

The Vietnamese Consulate General in Preah Sihanouk and the Khmer-Vietnam Association in the province on July 29 presented gifts to 150 Vietnamese Cambodian households and 20 Cambodian ones that are living in difficulties amidst the complex developments of the COVID-19 pandemic.

VOV.VN - Various Vietnamese associations have stated their desire to seek the Government’s support to facilitate import procedures of COVID-19 vaccines from a firm operating in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

VOV.VN - A large number of local people participated in a large-scale COVID-19 vaccination campaign on July 29 launched at the Tien Son Sports Arena in Da Nang.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has underlined the necessity of implementing a fresh approach and solutions as part of the country’s pandemic prevention and control efforts.

Vietnamese expatriates and businesses in Australia and France’s New Caledonia have donated more than AUD41,035 (US$30,288) to aid their home country in combating COVID-19.

VOV.VN - German newspaper Jungewelt (Young World) has recently published an article about Hanoi launching a mass vaccination rollout for citizens in an effort to contain the COVID-19 pandemic as swiftly as possible.

VOV.VN - A further 4,992 fresh positive cases of COVID-19, including five imported ones, were confirmed by the Ministry of Health on July 30 morning, bringing the national tally to 133,405.

VOV.VN - Vingroup, a leading Vietnamese multi-sectoral conglomerate, plans to build a COVID-19 vaccine production plant in Hanoi with a designed capacity of between 100-200 million doses a year.

State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on July 29 urged Ho Chi Minh City – the country’s biggest COVID-19 hotspot at present - to promote the motto of “fighting the pandemic is like fighting the enemy.”

VOV.VN - An additional 233 patients have died of COVID-19 and underlying illnesses in seven cities and provinces across Vietnam over the past week.

VOV.VN - An additional 4,773 people have tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Vietnam during the past 12 hours, while 4,323 more patients have been discharged from hospital after making a full recovery from the disease, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).

Finnish educators are looking forward to welcoming more and more Vietnamese high-school students to study in their country, which is known as the world’s happiest nation and for having high standard of education.

VOV.VN - The Hanoi Trade Union has come up with an idea of establishing mobile supermarkets on wheels to deliver daily necessities free of charge to local residents when Hanoi is implementing social distancing measures.

VOV.VN - Green-lighted by the Vietnamese Government, the French Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City on July 29 began vaccinating French nationals living in the southern city and regional localities at France-Vietnam Hospital.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health has assigned centrally-run hospitals to urgently establish three intensive care unit (ICU) centres in order to provide treatment to severely-ill COVID-19 patients in Ho Chi Minh City.

VOV.VN - The partial lockdown imposed by the municipal administration has made Hanoi’s streets fall quiet at night.

A Vietnam Innovation Network in the Republic of Korea (VINK) is slated to make its debut on July 31, according to the Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST).

Staff of the Level-2 Field Hospital No. 3 of Vietnam engaging in the United Nations’ peacekeeping mission in South Sudan and their peers from India’s Level-2 Field Hospital have held an online joint training course on medical capacity and COVID-19 prevention and control.

Vietnamese Consul General in Hong Kong (China) Pham Binh Dam on July 28 met with leaders of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) to discuss ways to step up cooperation in education between Vietnam and the territory in education.

Two Vietnamese companies, namely the Northern Power Corporation of Vietnam (EVNNPC) and the Dau Tieng Rubber Corporation of Vietnam - have been presented ASEAN – Occupational Safety and Health Network (OSHNET) Awards.

VOV.VN - A further 659,900 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine arrived at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City on July 29.

VOV.VN - Police in the north-central province of Thanh Hoa detained two Chinese citizens on July 28 for investigations into machinery smuggling in Vietnam.

Nguyen Tuan Anh, security expert of Viettel Cyber Security, surpassed more than 25,000 "white hat hackers" in the world to top the June 2021 rankings of Bugcrowd, the world's largest security vulnerability search platform.

Close to 1 million free meals worth VND15 billion (US$653,274) have so far been offered to disadvantaged people who are affected by COVID-19 across 28 provinces and cities nationwide since April.

The Vietnam Post has piloted the Post Smart automatic delivery cabinet model in 40 post offices in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from July as part of efforts to minimise the risk of COVID-19 spreading.

VOV.VN - British Ambassador to Vietnam Gareth War announced on July 28 the UK Government’s decision to donate 415,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Vietnam, reaffirming the UK’s commitment to support Vietnam’s vaccination programme.