VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City, the largest coronavirus hotspot in Vietnam, will develop scenarios of a ‘new normal’ status following the successful COVID-19 prevention model in its districts No.7 and Cu Chi, according to a senior local official.

Many COVID-19 patients in HCM City are being treated at home, with the help of medical personnel from mobile clinics. This is one of the measures to reduce hospital overload in Vietnam’s largest COVID-19 hotspot at the moment.

VOV.VN - Joining frontline forces in the COVID-19 fight has so far left soldiers unperturbed as they strive to reach various virus hotspots in order to contribute to the country’s ongoing fight against an invisible enemy.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health (MoH) on August 17 distributed 30,000 vials of Remdesivir, a broad-spectrum antiviral medication, to intensive care unit (ICU) centres and eight localities in the south to assist them with the COVID-19 fight.

Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s current largest COVID-19 hotspot, has received vehicles and medical devices to help it contain the spread of the pandemic.

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 - The Ministry of Defence held a ceremony on August 6 in Hanoi to send off 100 military doctors and nurses to various field hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City and Binh Duong province to support local frontline forces in their ongoing fight against COVID-19.

A blood donation campaign was launched in Ho Chi Minh City on August 4 to supplement for the blood banks of nearly 150 hospitals in the city.

VOV.VN -The total number of people who have recovered from COVID-19 since the start of the latest pandemic wave rose to 31,146, following the discharge of a further 2,826 patients on July 30, according to the Ho Chi Minh City Centre for Disease Control.

VOV.VN - As many as 4,353 COVID-19 patients were successfully discharged from hospital on July 28 in Ho Chi Minh City, whilst no new infection clusters have been detected in the area, according to details given by the Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control (HCDC).