VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City’s tourism sector has reopened after months of social distancing and travel restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

VOV.VN - A total of 1,998 patients were discharged from hospital, bringing the total number of recoveries to 820,334, while some localities have started vaccinating children aged 12-17 years old, the Health Ministry reported on October 31.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has now injected a total of 80,659,184 doses of COVID-19 vaccines, whilst distributing total of 100,435,136 doses, according to an update given on October 30 on the COVID-19 vaccination portal.

The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) Central Committee and the Communist Youth League of China (CYLC) Central Committee launched the Vietnam – China youth friendship exchange via videoconference on October 29.

Ho Chi Minh City’s consumer price index (CPI) in October went down 0.41% month-on-month and moved up 2.02% year-on-year, reported the municipal Statistics Office on October 29.

French Ambassador to Vietnam Nicolas Warnery has affirmed that Vietnam is a true strategic partner of France.

A group of young artists in Ho Chi Minh City will release a new bilingual art book featuring 30 folk music genres and theatrical performing arts, and six traditional festivals of Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Laos’ Attapeu province has donated LAK100 million (US$8,200) to Ho Chi Minh City to support the Vietnamese locality in combating COVID-19.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese Embassy in Argentina on October 27 inaugurated a refurbished square named after Vietnam and a bronze plaque of President Ho Chi Minh’s biography placed under his statue in Buenos Aires’s Commune 12.

Ho Chi Minh City’s authorities on October 27 issued its decision to allow in-person dining to resume from October 28, after five months of closure and delivery-only operations due to the severe COVID-19 outbreak.