VOV.VN - Vietnam has confirmed 197 new coronavirus cases in 12 cities and provinces during the past six hours, raising its 24-hour caseload to 323, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said in its 06.00pm COVID-19 update on June 27.

VOV.VN - Over 400,000 residents in Ho Chi Minh City have been inoculated against COVID-19 over the past five days as part of the southern city’s ongoing vaccination campaign.

VOV.VN - The Japanese Government is set to grant a further one million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Vietnam to combat the pandemic, as announced on June 25 by Japanese Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu.

A 26-year-old man died 39 hours after being vaccinated with the COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine, the Centre for Disease Control of Hanoi has announced.

The Government on June 19 issued a resolution on the purchase of 30 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine ordered by the Vietnam Vaccine Joint Stock Company (VNVC).

Diplomatic channels have been optimised to seek COVID-19 vaccine supply sources around the world in the hope of increasing the rate of vaccinated people, thus pushing back the pandemic soon.

VOV.VN - A large-scale vaccination campaign to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic was launched on June 19 in Ho Chi Minh City, with 836,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine set to be injected into local citizens.

VOV.VN - The Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City has received a delivery of over 800,000 doses of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine in preparation for the country’s largest-ever vaccination campaign, which is set to get underway in the southern city.

Ho Chi Minh City has been asked to work harder to impose restriction measures on the smallest possible scale so as not to prolong large-scale social distancing.

VOV.VN - Nearly one million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, a gift of the Japanese government and people to the government and people of Vietnam, arrived at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi late on June 16.