The Vietnam Consulate General in Cambodia’s Preah Sihanouk province, which is in charge of providing consular services in six southwestern Cambodian localities, has operated effectively last year despite diseases and natural disasters.

The Vietnamese Students’ Association in Italy (ASVI) convened its first congress for the 2021-2023 tenure in the form of videoconference on January 29.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health January 29 afternoon confirmed an additional 28 new cases of COVID-19, including 27 community-associated cases, and one imported case from the US.

VOV.VN - The northern province of Quang Ninh has traced over 23,600 F1 and F4 contacts on January 30, and tested 4,670 cases, with over 2,400 samples coming back negative for the SARS-CoV-2-virus.

VOV.VN - Hanoi is set to conduct mass testing for approximately 5,00000 citizens who recently returned from COVID-19) hotspots in Hai Duong and Quang Ninh provinces, according to information released by the Hanoi Center for Disease Control (Hanoi CDC).

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health has moved to license the AstraZeneca novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine developed by Oxford University in the UK to be used to combat the pandemic in Vietnam.

Two field hospitals with a combined capacity of treating 600 COVID-19 patients have been set up in northern Hai Duong province within just 24 hours.

Vietjet has announced a plan to support customers with their flight to and from Van Don, the northern province of Quang Ninh, from January 29 to February 13 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health on January 30 morning reported the detection of a further 34 new COVID-19 community cases, taking the national infection tally to 1,739.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on January 29 chaired an urgent meeting on COVID-19 prevention and control for the second time following the detection of a further 54 fresh COVID-19 cases in the community.

Different plans have been designed to respond to all circumstances, including a worst-case scenario, that could happen to reporters as they cover the ongoing 13th National Party Congress amid the complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang has said.

VOV.VN - Thousands of residents living in T6 apartment block of Times City urban area in Hanoi were swiftly placed into lockdown on January 29 after one person who resides in the complex tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

VOV.VN - The National Hospital for Tropical Diseases are in the process of setting up an Intensive Care Unit at the Chi Linh Medical Centre in Chi Linh City in order to treat severe novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases.

Oversea Vietnamese (OVs) living in New York, the US, has expressed belief that the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam will set out judicious decisions to continue to boost Vietnam’s development in the future.

Vietnam has earned three awards in the latest round of the Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER), an international programme that funds scientists and engineers in developing countries who partner with US government-funded researchers to address global development challenges.

VOV.VN - As the nation’s latest novel coronavirus (COVID-19) hotspot, the northern province of Quang Ninh set up five check-points at midnight on January 28 following the detection of a positive COVID-19 case in the locality.

VOV.VN - Thousands of people, including organisers, reporters, security officers, and staff working at the ongoing 13th National Party Congress have had their samples taken as part of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) tests following the latest detection of community cases in recent times.

VOV.VN - Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son has called on localities nationwide to keep vigilance high as the new novel coronavirus (COVID-19) strain first detected in the UK can spread at a rate of over 70% faster than other variants.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has sent an urgent dispatch to airports, directing them to strictly follow COVID-19 prevention and control measures after community transmissions of the coronavirus were reported in the northern provinces of Hai Duong and Quang Ninh.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health on the morning of January 29 reported the discovery of a further 9 community-associated cases, with one in Hai Phong, one in Bac Ninh, 2 in Quang Ninh, 4 in Hai Phong, and one in Hanoi.

VOV.VN - The capital city of Hanoi is on red alert against the possibility of a fresh coronavirus outbreak after a coronavirus patient was confirmed by the local medical sector.

VOV.VN - The northern port city of Hai Phong, a neighbor of Hai Duong, the country’s biggest coronavirus hotpot, moved to lock down a children hospital in the city centre on January 28 after a COVID-19 case was detected there.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health has decided to set up three field hospitals in Hai Duong province to cope with the increasing number of coronavirus infections there, says Minister Nguyen Thanh Long.

Vietnam controlled its borders from the very beginning and went above and beyond World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendations in managing the COVID-19 pandemic, a Malaysian expert has said.

VOV.VN - The emergence of the coronavirus in Hai Duong and Quang Ninh has taught other localities a valuable lesson that is there is no room for complacency, said Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam.

Minister of Science and Technology Huynh Thanh Dat and Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung, both of them members of the Party Central Committee, on January 28 called for greater investment in science-technology to push national digital transformation, e-Government, and the digital economy forward.

VOV.VN - A further seven coronavirus cases, including a Costa Rican, returning from overseas have been diagnosed with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the Ministry of Health said in its coronavirus update at 18.00hrs on January 28.

UNICEF and the Ministry of Health (MoH) on January 28 launched the photobook “Kindness is Contagious”, marking a successful end to a campaign of the same name to promote acts of kindness amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

VOV.VN - Six local residents of Ho Chi Minh City have tested negative for the SARS-CoV-2 virus after having close contact with a COVID-19 patient announced by the Ministry of Health on January 28.

VOV.VN - Kim Dien village of Chi Linh city in the northern province of Hai Duong has gone into a period of isolation from the night of January 27 following the detection of a positive novel coronavirus (COVID-19) case.