VOV.VN - The northern port city of Hai Phong, a neighbor of Hai Duong, the country’s biggest coronavirus hotpot, moved to lock down a children hospital in the city centre on January 28 after a COVID-19 case was detected there.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health has decided to set up three field hospitals in Hai Duong province to cope with the increasing number of coronavirus infections there, says Minister Nguyen Thanh Long.

Vietnam controlled its borders from the very beginning and went above and beyond World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendations in managing the COVID-19 pandemic, a Malaysian expert has said.

VOV.VN - The emergence of the coronavirus in Hai Duong and Quang Ninh has taught other localities a valuable lesson that is there is no room for complacency, said Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam.

Minister of Science and Technology Huynh Thanh Dat and Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung, both of them members of the Party Central Committee, on January 28 called for greater investment in science-technology to push national digital transformation, e-Government, and the digital economy forward.

The 13th National Congress marks the strong development of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), affirmed Pathet Lao newspaper of the Lao News Agency (KPL) in a front-page article on January 28.

VOV.VN - A further seven coronavirus cases, including a Costa Rican, returning from overseas have been diagnosed with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the Ministry of Health said in its coronavirus update at 18.00hrs on January 28.

UNICEF and the Ministry of Health (MoH) on January 28 launched the photobook “Kindness is Contagious”, marking a successful end to a campaign of the same name to promote acts of kindness amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

VOV.VN - The Polish market represents a crucial gateway which can help local goods make further inroads into the EU market in the future, experts shared the view at a workshop held on January 28 in Ho Chi Minh City.

VOV.VN - Six local residents of Ho Chi Minh City have tested negative for the SARS-CoV-2 virus after having close contact with a COVID-19 patient announced by the Ministry of Health on January 28.