Ho Chi Minh City is piloting the use of a mobile app developed by military-run telecom group Viettel to continuously monitor close contacts with COVID-19 patients, or F1 cases, who are under home quarantine.

VOV.VN - As many as 200 COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms and in critical condition will be given treatment at a newly-established centre inside the 175 Military Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City following the increase of local infection cases.

VOV.VN - The first 30 beds at a hospital for coronavirus rehabilitation were put into operation in Ho Chi Minh City on July 15 in order to provide intensive treatment for critically ill COVID-19 patients.

VOV.VN - As many as 200 medical workers are working at full capacity at field hospital No.6, the largest of its kind, in Binh Khanh resettlement zone in Ho Chi Minh City in order to treat more than 3,400 COVID-19 patients.

VOV.VN - The Health Ministry reported the detection of a further 829 new active cases of COVID-19 on the afternoon of July 14, boosting the daily number of new infections to 2,934.

VOV.VN - An additional 609 people tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus during the past six hours to 6 pm July 12, thereby raising the daily infection count to more than 2,383, according to a report released by the Health Ministry as part of its evening update.

VOV.VN - Five more COVID-19 patients have died in Vietnam, including a 50-year old female patient in Ho Chi Minh City who had not been suffering from any underlying health issues, the Ministry of Health said on July 9.

VOV.VN - A further 645 people tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus during the afternoon of July 8, thereby boosting the daily infection count to 1,341, according to a report released by the Health Ministry as part of its evening update.

VOV.VN - Three more local patients have died of severe underlying health conditions and COVID-19, bringing the national fatality count up to 105, the Treatment Subcommittee under the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control said on July 8.

VOV.VN - The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health has built four makeshift hospitals with a capacity of 12,000 beds in order to receive and treat local COVID-19 patients amid rising infections in the city.