VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has signed an official dispatch aimed at providing treatment and implementing social welfare policies for homeless and disadvantaged people.

VOV.VN - The People’s Council of Ho Chi Minh City on August 24 elected incumbent vice secretary of the HCM City Party Committee Pham Van Mai as chairman of the municipal administration.

Entrusted by the Government, the army is determined to use all means and forces, within and even beyond its ability, together with HCM City, the southern provinces of Binh Duong, Long An and Dong Nai and other COVID-19-hit localities, to wipe out the pandemic and bring people’s life to normal.

VOV.VN - As many as 1,000 doctors, lecturers and students of the Military Medical Academy in Hanoi will fly to Ho Chi Minh City, the epicenter of the country’s latest coronavirus outbreak, to help with the ongoing COVID-19 fight.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City expects India will help the Vietnamese metropolis access Made-in-India vaccines and drugs to treat COVID-19.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City, the largest coronavirus hotspot in Vietnam at present, had vaccinated nearly 5.1 million people as of August 18, according to the municipal Department of Health.

A Vietjet Air flight carrying 10 tonnes of relief goods worth EUR616,100 (US$720,000), donated by German friends and Vietnamese people living in the country, is scheduled to depart from Hamburg for Ho Chi Minh City on August 19.

VOV.VN - The complex nature of the COVID-19 pandemic impacting southern cities has led to 60% of enterprises operating in the wood sector to suspend their operations, leading to severe difficulties in fulfilling export orders for the EU and the US.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City, the largest coronavirus hotspot in Vietnam, has requested that the Government provide the city with VND28,000 billion and more than 142,000 tonnes of rice to support poor labourers affected by COVID-19.

VOV.VN - The number of new coronavirus infections recorded in the community has increased considerably across Ho Chi Minh City over recent days, said Nguyen Thanh Phong, head of the municipal administration.