Despite the complexity of the fourth COVID-19 wave, Vietnam’s GDP growth is forecast to exceed 6.5% this year on the back of surging industrial production and global economic recovery, according to Assoc. Prof. and PhD Dinh Trong Thinh, a senior economist from the Academy of Finance.

The current COVID-19 resurgence has put the brakes on trade, transport and tourism, with all the sectors experiencing declines in May, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

VOV.VN - The nation recorded a total of 227 fresh domestic COVID-19 cases, and three imported infections on May 27, with the hotspots of Bac Giang and Bac Ninh continuing to register a growing number of local transmissions at 128 and 52.

Travel firms will suspend advertisements for their tour packages for Vietnamese citizens to the United States inclusive of COVID-19 vaccinations and will not organize the tours this year.

VOV.VN - The Health Ministry confirmed 87 additional COVID-19 cases on the evening of May 9, including 77 locally-infected ones detected in 9 provinces and cities.