VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City on December 27 silenced rumours surfacing on social media that a local resident had contracted the new variant Omicron following a RT-PCR test at FV Hospital.

VOV.VN - Many hospitals throughout Ho Chi Minh City organised Christmas celebrations for COVID-19 patients, with a special focus on children, to encourage them to overcome difficulties faced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

VOV.VN - The number of critically ill COVID-19 patients admitted to hospital is on the rise in Hanoi, with some health facilities concerned about overcrowding.

VOV.VN - Field hospital No. 12 has been re-established in Ho Chi Minh City to receive and treat people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, especially those to be diagnosed with the new Omicron variant.

VOV.VN - Authorities have moved to lock down a building of the Central Maternity Hospital in downtown Hanoi after 15 people tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus on December 3.

Doctors from the Central Military Hospital 108 have successfully operated an endoscopic surgery to take the right liver part from a living donor for a liver transplantation.

Vietnam’s sapper unit No. 1 and level-2 field hospital No. 4 joining UN peacekeeping operations made their debut at a ceremony held by the Ministry of National Defence in Hanoi on November 17.

VOV.VN - The country detected a further 7,930 COVID-19 infections across 56 localities, including 12 imported cases, on November 12, thereby pushing up the nationwide tally to 1,009,879, according to the Ministry of Health.

An additional medical training course for the level-2 field hospital No.4 opened in Hanoi on November 10.

VOV.VN - Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi has received an Illumina gene sequencing machine donated by the United States.