VOV.VN - National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines has announced it will conduct three flights on August 12-13 to return more than 700 out of 1,695 tourists left stranded in Da Nang due to COVID-19 back to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has asked banks to further reduce operating costs in the remaining months of the year in order to continue lowering interest rates to support COVID-19 affected firms and individuals.

Travel firms have suffered great losses from thousands of recent tour cancellations due to a new outbreak of COVID-19, according to tourism associations.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has confirmed no new coronavirus cases but two more deaths during the past 12 hours, raising the death toll to 15, the Ministry of Health said in its August 11 update at 06.00hrs.

The export of many agricultural products, especially industrial crops such as pepper, rubber, tea, and cashew nuts, fell remarkably from January to July due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

VOV.VN - A flight with more than 260 Vietnamese citizens onboard landed at Can Tho International Airport in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on August 10 after flying from the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

VOV.VN - A total of 4,751 samples have been collected in Hanoi as of August 10 as part of an RT-PCR test campaign on locals who came back from Da Nang between July 15 and July 29, with 652 of the group being confirmed to have tested negative for COVID-19.

VOV.VN - More than 8,100 wholesale and retail firms enterprises during the first seven months of the year have initiated dissolution procedures due to the negative impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), accounting for 37.2% of all businesses.

VOV.VN - Bui Tien Dung, a star of the Vietnamese national football team, has changed his frame avatar on Facebook and called upon the community to unite for the cause of fighting the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

VOV.VN - The central city of Da Nang has accelerated testing for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) with the Da Nang Centre for Disease Control taking approximately 5,000 samples per day.