VOV.VN - Vietnam shipped over 1.13 billion face masks of various types abroad during the past ten months of the year, according to statistics compiled by the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

The police in Hanoi's Hoan Kiem District and medical staff have started raising public awareness about COVID-19 and fined people that failed to wear face masks in the pedestrian streets.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Ambassador to Laos Nguyen Ba Hung handed over 30,000 face masks to Sounthone Sayachak, head of the External Affairs Commission of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee, as a gift from the Communist Party of Vietnam’s Foreign Affairs Commission in an effort to help the neighbouring country tackle the pandemic.

VOV.VN - Vietnam entered the 60th consecutive day November 1 without a single locally transmitted coronavirus case, according to the Ministry of Health.

Vietnam has been hailed for overcoming two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic with the minimum casualties thanks to a variety of measures it has applied, especially the enforcement of masking regulation is essential to outbreak containment.

Citizens’ laxation of COVID-19 preventive measures is posing a big risk to the pandemic prevention and control in the country.

VOV.VN - Vietnam shipped 989 million medical face masks of various types abroad during the opening nine months of the year, according to statistics compiled by the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

VOV.VN - Deputy head of the Ho Chi Minh City administration Le Thanh Liem signed an urgent document sent to localities, requesting them to continue implementing COVID-19 preventive measures in the new situation.

Tran Ba Linh, a researcher from the University of Bath and Robyn Klingler-Vidra, a Senior Lecturer in Political Economy from King's College London have posted on website theconversation.com a number of articles highlighting the creativity and community spirit of Vietnamese people amidst COVID-19 pandemic.

VOV.VN - Numerous residents of the capital could be spotted not wearing face masks in public areas around Hoan Kiem lake on the first day of the reopening of the pedestrian streets, despite the ongoing threat of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).