VOV.VN - Approximately 200 doctors and medical staff at hospitals in the central region have headed to Ho Chi Minh City in order to support southern provinces in their ongoing battle against COVID-19.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese Government has given the go-ahead to the reopening of the UK visa application centre in Hanoi for August 30, with restrictions set to be in place following its launch.

Ho Chi Minh City’s People's Committee on August 27 received medical supplies and vehicles worth VND161 billion donated by the Truong Hai Automobile Joint Stock Company (THACO) in support of the city's COVD-19 fight.

The Australian Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City on behalf of the Australian Government handed over 403,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine to Vietnam on August 27.

VOV.VN - Vietnam recorded an additional 12,920 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hour to 6:30 p.m. on August 27 across 42 localities, thereby raising the overall infection count in the latest outbreak to 406,223 according to figures published by the Ministry of Health.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has signed an official dispatch aimed at providing treatment and implementing social welfare policies for homeless and disadvantaged people.

VOV.VN - Two batches of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, consisting of a total of 1,442,300 doses, arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on the morning of August 27.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh made a fact-finding trip to Ho Chi Minh City on August 26 in order to inspect the implementation of COVID-19 prevention measures in the nation’s largest COVID-19 hotspot.

VOV.VN - Military forces have been on the ground assisting residents in Ho Chi Minh City with the process of buying essential items at supermarkets during the tighter social distancing period in the city to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jeon Jin Pyo, deputy mayor of Chuncheon city, the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s Gangwon province, on August 24 presented 5,000 COVID-19 rapid test kits for Vietnamese Ambassador to the RoK Nguyen Vu Tung in aid of Da Lat city, Vietnam’s Central Highlands province of Lam Dong.