VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on June 15 approved HCM City’s proposal to purchase and import COVID-19 vaccines for local use.

VOV.VN - The Japanese Government has decided to provide Vietnam with one million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to inoculate its people, Japanese Ambassador Yamada Takio announced at a meeting with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on June 15.

The Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Ho Chi Minh City said 105 organisations, businesses, and individuals have to date pledged to contribute VND2,293 billion to support the city’s purchase of COVID-19 vaccines.

VOV.VN - More than 600 members of foreign diplomatic missions and United Nations organizations in Vietnam have been inoculated against the SARS-CoV-2 virus during the past days in Hanoi.

The national COVID-19 vaccine fund has received more than VND5.08 trillion (US$221.34 million) worth of donations from 296,215 organisations and individuals as of 5pm on June 14, according to the fund's management board.

VOV.VN - Vietnam and Canada will work to boost multifaceted cooperation bilaterally and multilaterally, agreed Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son and his Canadian counterpart Marc Garneau during their phone talks on June 14.

VOV.VN - Vietnam and France have agreed to share experience in the COVID-19 pandemic fight, and help each other with COVID-19 vaccines.

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 national COVID-19 vaccine fund received more than VND4.84 trillion (US$210.2 million) worth of donations from 283,169 organisations and individuals as of 5pm on June 12, according to the fund's management board.

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue has asked for stepping up the vaccine strategy with a specific roadmap and measures to achieve herd immunity, thus laying an important foundation to catch up with the global economy.