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.

VOV.VN - Due to COVID-19 challenges, Vietnam will seek to end tuberculosis (TB) by 2035 instead of 2030 as planned, said Deputy Minister of Health Tran Van Thuan at a ceremony held in Hanoi on March 24 to mark World Tuberculosis Day.

VOV.VN - There were a total of 1,142 newborns delivered during the seven-day Lunar New Year (Tet) festival from January 20 to January 26, according to the latest report by the Hanoi Department of Health.

VOV.VN - Three latest cases of Whitmore’s disease, also known as melioidosis, have been recorded in the Central Highland of Dak Lak and the central province of Thanh Hoa, according to the Ministry of Health.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health has decided to add monkeypox to Group B infectious diseases which are considered to be dangerous, highly contagious, and potentially fatal diseases.

VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has approved a programme to ensure a sufficient supply of vaccines for domestic use until 2030.

The High-Level Forum on One Health Partnership for Zoonoses (OHP) Framework for the 2021-2025 period took place in Hanoi on August 16.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has proposed that the Pasteur Institute in Paris and the Pasteur Network continue to support and coordinate with Vietnam in promoting medical research, especially on COVID-19 and post-COVID issues, as well as emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases.

VOV.VN - The Government has asked the Ministry of Health (MoH) to consider lowering the infection risk level of COVID-19 from group A, made up of very dangerous infectious diseases, to group B which consists of dangerous infectious diseases.

VOV.VN - The country needs to improve the capacity of the local health system in order to deal with the spread of infectious diseases and develop a concrete strategy in the new normal as part of the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, according to health experts.