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.

VOV.VN - Police of Ho Chi Minh City’s Go Vap district have decided to prosecute the Revival Ekklesia Mission Vietnam, a Christian sect, for spreading the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the community.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked localities and sectors, especially the health sector, to work harder to prevent a ‘twin disaster’ in Vietnam, while chairing a COVID-19 response meeting in Hanoi on October 19.

VOV.VN - Son Tay General Hospital announced on August 28 that a woman living in Hanoi has been infected with Melioidosis, also known as Whitmore’s disease, which is caused by bacterium Burkholderia pseudomalle.