VOV.VN - The Ho Chi Minh City Centre of Disease Control (HCDC) on October 4 confirmed that the southern city has detected an additional case of monkeypox, taking total infections to five in the locality alone.

The Ministry of Health has submitted to the Government a proposal to declare the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as a group A disease and abolish a number of pandemic prevention measures.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has so far recorded four monkeypox infections, mainly in the southern region.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health (MoH) on September 22 asked health departments of all localities to enhance measures against Whitmore, also called melioidosis, following a 15-year-old death of the infectious disease.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health (MoH) has requested that localities proactively implement prevention and control measures for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases, as well as steps to prevent the EG.5 coronavirus strain.

VOV.VN - Provincial and municipal People's Committees are eligible to direct specialized agencies to review the pandemic situation and announce the end of COVID-19 in accordance to their competence on the basis of the guidance of the Ministry of Health and the regulations of the Law on Infectious Disease Prevention and Control.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, who is also Head of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, chaired the committee's 20th meeting via teleconference with all 63 provinces and centrally-run cities of the country.

VOV.VN - At the ongoing fifth session of the 15th National Assembly (NA) held on May 29, Nguyen Lan Hieu of the NA Delegation of Binh Dinh province suggested that the end of COVID-19 should be announced.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has sent a document to relevant agencies in order to request that they tighten control and strictly handle cases of illegal transportation of poultry products across the border into Vietnam.

Carlo Urbani Museum, named after an Italian doctor who identified severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Vietnam in 2003 and then died of the disease, was officially opened on April 1 in his hometown of Castelplanio, Italy’s Ancona province.