VOV.VN - As many as 598 people have tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus in 12 Vietnamese cities and provinces during the past 12 hours, including 520 cases in Ho Chi Minh City.

VOV.VN - Daily caseload of COVID-19 in Vietnam once again beat the 1,000 mark on July 7, reaching 1,007, after an additional 321 locally acquired and nine imported cases were detected in 14 cities and provinces during the past six hours.

VOV.VN - The north-eastern border province of Quang Ninh has been selected to receive foreigners, providing that they hold a vaccination certificate known as a vaccine passport.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has requested that the Ministry of Health immediately transfer rapid antigen test kits to Ho Chi Minh City in order to boost extensive COVID-19 testing, while taking a fact-finding trip to the southern city on June 26.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health is set to allow F1 cases involving individuals who came into first-hand contact with a OVID-19 patient to quarantine at home in an effort to ease pressure on concentrated isolation facilities, as well as frontline healthcare workers.

The Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) has proposed an eight-month exemption of health insurance premiums, until January next year, for labourers and firms victimised by COVID-19.

VOV.VN - Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long on May 6 outlined a number of important lessons that should be learnt from a COVID-19 outbreak hitting the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi.

The Ministry of Health has recently sent a document on the extension of the concentrated quarantine period to directors of Centres for Disease Control (CDC), and Preventive Medicine Centres nationwide.

VOV.VN - Ten people, including an Indian expert, have been diagnosed with the SARS-CoV-2 virus during the past 24 hours, bringing Vietnam’s total number of coronavirus infections to 2,801, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said in its 18.00hrs update.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health (MoH) confirmed four more four coronavirus cases, including two Filipino experts, raising the national count to 2,590.