VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health (MoH) and UNICEF on August 29 jointly launched a back-to-school COVID-19 vaccination campaign to ensure children will feel safe when they return to school after a long summer holiday.

VOV.VN - There has been a growing number of COVID-19 cases in the country recorded in August, with many severe cases and unvaccinated deaths accounting for up to 25% of the total infections, according to Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Truong Son.

VOV.VN - The General Department ò Preventive Medicine announced on August 17 that Vietnam has recorded BA.2.74, a new subvariant of the Omicron strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.

VOV.VN - The number of COVID-19 cases is currently increasing both globally and in Vietnam due to the recent rapid spread of the Omicron variant, according to the General Department of Preventive Medicine.

VOV.VN - Inoculation sites across the capital have seen double the number of local residents receiving their second booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccine.

VOV.VN - Hundreds of local people flocked to inoculation sites across Ho Chi Minh City to receive their second booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

VOV.VN - A huge number of local people residing in Ho Chi Minh City have flocked to health centres to be vaccinated after the city recorded first COVID-19 infections caused by the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 sub-lineages.

VOV.VN - Health officials in Ho Chi Minh City are considering reopening field hospitals to receive and treat coronavirus patients following the emergence of new subvariants of the Omicron variant – BA.4 and BA.5 – in the city.

Ho Chi Minh City has detected three cases of BA.4 and BA.5, which are more transmissible subvariants of the Omicron coronavirus variant, via a random screening at a local hospital.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese Ministry of Health said it is closely monitoring the emergence of new sub-lineages of the Omicron variant that causes the COVID-19 disease worldwide to promptly adopt control measures if they are reported in Vietnam.