Many firms have been caught off guard by the sudden spike in new COVID-19 cases, disrupting plans adjusted after the pandemic’s initial impacts.

VOV.VN - Local authorities in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue have conducted swift novel coronavirus (COVID-19) tests for all residents who have returned from Da Nang since July.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc chaired an online meeting of permanent Government members and ministries, sectors and local administrations on COVID-19 prevention and control on August 2.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health reported another coronavirus case in Quang Ngai province on August 3 morning, bringing the country’s COVID-19 infection tally to 621.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, head of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, on August 2 stressed that those who fail to make health declarations and follow quarantine regulations must be handled strictly.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health on August 2 afternoon announced the discovery of an additional 30 new positive coronavirus cases, including 16 recorded in central Da Nang city an epidemic centre in Vietnam.

VOV.VN - A further 28 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed by the Ministry of Health on the afternoon of August 1, bringing the total count to 40 cases in a single day, and to 586 nationwide.

VOV.VN - Another coronavirus patient died in Da Nang City, central Vietnam, on August 1, bringing the death toll in the country to three in just two days, according to the Ministry of Health.

VOV.VN - Joint forces are racing against time to build a field hospital in the central city which has reported more than 100 locally transmitted coronavirus infections for just a week.

VOV.VN - A 61-year-old coronavirus patient with multiple comorbidities died of septic shock and the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), raising the national COVID-19 death toll to 2 in a single day, the Ministry of Health reported on July 31 evening.