The highest priority at this time is to fight COVID-19 and deal with its consequences in order to ensure security and safety as well as the public’s health, and complete the set dual goals, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said on May 7.

A 35-year-old female medical worker in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang died on May 7 of anaphylactic shock after receiving a dose of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine a day earlier.

VOV.VN - Up to 1,800 medical workers, patients, and their relatives at Military Hospital 105 have tested negative for novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

VOV.VN - Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long received his first dose of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine alongside three deputy ministers on May 6 in Hanoi.

VOV.VN - An additional 14 positive cases of COVID-19 were detected on April 30 afternoon, including 10 imported cases and 4 domestic infections in Hanoi capital and the northern province of Ha Nam, said the Ministry of Health.

VOV.VN - More than 2,000 staff working at Tan Son Nhat International Airport and Pleiku Airport received their novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines on April 27.

VOV.VN - The country documented no new cases of COVID-19 on the morning of April 28, while close to 320,000 people were vaccinated against COVID-19, according to the Ministry of Health.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has kept a close watch on COVID-19 situation in India and is willing to support the Government and people of India in this hard time, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang said on April 26.

VOV.VN - Vietnam is hopeful it can produce its first local COVID-19 vaccine this year, with the third trial phase of trials for the NanoCovax vaccine set to be completed in late September while the COVIVAC vaccine will enter the second phase by the end of June, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).

Director General of the General Department of Preventive Medicine Dang Quang Tan has mentioned three reasons for Vietnam not yet accepting “vaccine passports”.