The newly-appointed person will govern the city’s operations during Mr. Nguyen Duc Chung’s suspension.

Hanoi now has 13 communes meeting advanced criteria for new-style rural areas, up two communes compared to the end of 2019, according to the city’s coordinating office for the new-style rural area programme.

VOV.VN - A group consisting of more than 400 tourists who had been left stranded in Da Nang as a result of the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic were successfully brought home to Hanoi on August 12.

VOV.VN - A beer restaurant in Tu Hiep commune of Thanh Tri district in Hanoi has been locked down following the detection of an individual suspected of testing positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) after travelling to the capital from Hai Duong.

VOV.VN - The period from this week to the middle of next week will mark the peak of the latest wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said, while urging the implementation of a range of drastic countermeasures.

Electronic toll collection (ETC) services were officially introduced along the entirety of the Hanoi - Hai Phong Expressway on August 11.

VOV.VN - Plenty of people throughout the capital have been fined for not wearing face masks in public places, with their failure increasing the risk of spreading the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) to others.

VOV.VN - A total of 4,751 samples have been collected in Hanoi as of August 10 as part of an RT-PCR test campaign on locals who came back from Da Nang between July 15 and July 29, with 652 of the group being confirmed to have tested negative for COVID-19.

VOV.VN - Hanoi is racing against time to conduct contact tracing and complete the ongoing extensive testing campaign after several COVID-19 patients were detected in the capital.

VOV.VN - The Da Nang administration has proposed that the Ministry of Transport assist in transporting 1,695 tourists left stranded in the central city due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.