VOV.VN - An additional 3,461 people were detected to be positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus on October 13 across 45 localities nationwide, thereby pushing up the national tally since the start of the pandemic in the nation in early 2020 to 849,691, according to the Ministry of Health.

The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Committee of Ho Chi Minh City and the city's Committee for Religious Affairs on October 13 honoured 82 religious volunteers who have worded side by side with medical workers at local COVID-19 treatment hospitals.

FPT Group was honoured seven times at a recent ceremony announcing awards of the Top 10 Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Companies of Vietnam in 2021 hosted by the Vietnam Software and IT Services Association (VINASA).

Vietnam’s GDP growth forecast for this year has been lowered to 2-2.5%, according to the World Bank's October 2021 Vietnam Macro Monitoring.

VOV.VN - Mien Dong (Eastern) Coach Station, the largest of its kind in Ho Chi Minh City, was virtually deserted on October 13 as inter-provincial routes reopened following the easing of COVID-19 restrictions in the southern metropolis.

VOV.VN- Vietnam remains ready to co-operate with international partners, agencies of both the UN and ASEAN, and international organisations to raise global awareness of mitigating disaster risks and improving adaptive capacity whilst responding to more effectively to natural disasters amid COVID-19.

VOV.VN - The country is poised to have 95% of its 8.1 million children aged between 12 and 17 years old vaccinated in the final quarter of the year, according to the Ministry of Health.

VOV.VN - COVAX delivered an additional 1,999,530 life-saving doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine made available by the United States to assist Vietnam in its fight against COVID-19.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Hungary Nguyen Thi Bich Thao received the token of 60,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine presented by the Croatian Government at a ceremony held in Budapest, Hungary, on October 12.

The Asian route development forum 2020 (Routes Asia 2022) will be held in the central city of Da Nang, with the municipal People’s Committee and Department of Tourism, and IPP Travel Retail being selected as the hosts of the event.