VOV.VN - The Military Medical Academy have come together with Nanogen Pharmaceutical Biotechnology JSC to recruit volunteers who can participate in human trials of a Vietnamese-made novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine named Nanocovax, with the first stage of clinical tests taking place on December 10.

Vietnam will conduct the first phase of human trials of a locally made COVID-19 vaccine from December 10, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long said at a meeting with Vietnamese vaccine producers on December 5.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has been named as one of the world’s top four performers in terms of providing the best HIV/AIDS treatment, alongside Germany, Switzerland, and the UK, and the country aims to eradicate HIV/AIDS by 2030, according to Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long.

VOV.VN - Vietnam recorded two more locally transmitted coronavirus cases closely linked to a Vietnamese teacher who had caught the virus from a Vietnam Airlines flight attendant, Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long announced on December 1.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health on November 30 convened an urgent meeting with relevant agencies, and Ho Chi Minh City Health Department representatives to direct the swift implementation of all epidemic prevention measures after a man in the southern metropolis was confirmed to contract the novel coronavirus from an imported case.

VOV.VN - Three Vietnamese returnees from France have been diagnosed with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, bringing Vietnam’s tally of coronavirus infections to 1,256, according to the Ministry of Health.

The 14th National Assembly (NA) approved the appointment of the Minister of Science and Technology, the Minister of Health, the Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam, and three judges of the Supreme People’s Court on the morning of November 12 during its ongoing 10th sitting in Hanoi.

VOV.VN - The US Government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) donated 100 brand-new ventilators to Vietnam on September 30 in an effort to support Vietnam’s fight against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

VOV.VN - The Chinese government has donated a shipment of 320,000 medical masks to Vietnam to help the country prevent the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the community.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health is conducting sequencing for the SARS-CoV-2 virus detected in the first COVID-19 case found in a cluster of infections in Hai Duong province to determine whether there are any similarities with the virus strain.