The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) on January 6 presented 6.3 million syringes to the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology to serve the COVID-19 vaccination in Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Five cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 have been detected in Ho Chi Minh City, according to the municipal Department of Health.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese epidemiologists have discovered an additional 14 Omicron cases following the first identified in Hanoi a couple of days ago.

VOV.VN - Vietnam recorded a further 17,000 new COVID-19 cases on December 30, representing an increase of 3,107 from the previous day, according to the Ministry of Health.

Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s official visit to Cambodia on December 21 – 22 demonstrated the good relationship between the two countries and further stepped up bilateral cooperation.

VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh has requested the Ministry of Health to work closely alongside competent agencies in order to receive 100,000 Sputnik Light COVID-19 vaccine doses donated by the Russian Government.

Vingroup Big Data Institute VinBigData announced on December 6 that it has completed the project on Database of Genomic Variants for Vietnamese Population.

There remain ample room for cooperation in research and policy sharing between Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK), National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue said while receiving Director of the Korea Development Institute (KDI) Hong Jang-pyo in Seoul on December 14.

A new research by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and Institute for European Studies shows that the short food supply chain (SFSC) model, although newly implemented in Vietnam, has had promising results.

Vietnamese rice businesses and farmers are still lacking awareness of low-carbon rice production, said Nguyen Van Hung, an expert from the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).