VOV.VN - Vietnam has confirmed an additional 10,811 coronavirus infections during the past 24 hours, with more than two thirds recorded in Ho Chi Minh City and Binh Duong, the country’s two largest coronavirus hotspots.

VOV.VN - The Air Defence- Air Force Service under the Ministry of Defense established two mobile oxygen production stations on August 24 at Military Hospital 175 to promptly meet the demand for oxygen in Ho Chi Minh City.

VOV.VN - The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has devised plans aimed at transporting personnel and medical equipment to coronavirus hotspots of Ho Chi Minh City, Binh Duong, Dong Nai, and Long An provinces in the south.

VOV.VN - Approximately one million doses of the Chinese-produced Vero Cell COVID-19 vaccine have been given to local people in Ho Chi Minh City, with all recipients in stable health condition, according to the HCM City Center for Disease Control (HCDC).

VOV.VN - The People’s Council of Ho Chi Minh City on August 24 elected incumbent vice secretary of the HCM City Party Committee Pham Van Mai as chairman of the municipal administration.

VOV.VN - Police forces in Ho Chi Minh City, the largest coronavirus hotspot in Vietnam, have been deployed to help transfer homeless people to social welfare centres in an effort to protect them from virus infections.

VOV.VN - Coronavirus cases in Ho Chi Minh City are likely to increase in the coming days as it is conducting extensive COVID-19 testing for all residents during the latest social distancing period, according to the city’s Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

Entrusted by the Government, the army is determined to use all means and forces, within and even beyond its ability, together with HCM City, the southern provinces of Binh Duong, Long An and Dong Nai and other COVID-19-hit localities, to wipe out the pandemic and bring people’s life to normal.

Vietnamese athletes with disabilities have received enthusiastic support from the mayor and residents of Kokubunji city, Tokyo - one of the "host town" of Vietnam at the Paralympics as there is one more day left before the beginning of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games (Tokyo Paralympics).

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City has decided to tighten its current restrictions as a means of curbing the recent spike in daily COVID-19 infections, with local residents required to "stay where they are".