VOV.VN - The Italian Government on September 21 announced its decision to offer a further 796,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses to Vietnam via the Covax global facility to help the nation respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Government Office has issued an official dispatch conveying Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh’s instruction to set up hotline 019 – No COVID of Vietnam.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh is scheduled to hold phone talks with his Austrian counterpart Sebastian Kurz on September 16 evening.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended and delivered remarks at the 7th Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Summit held virtually on September 9. The following is the full text of his remarks.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has directed the implementation of a pilot scheme aimed at attracting international tourists to Phu Quoc island between now and the end of the year, with the project potentially welcoming between two and three million foreign arrivals.

Vietnam must put an end to illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in a bid to have the European Commission (EC)’s “yellow card” removed by the end of 2021, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said at a virtual meeting on the issue on September 7.

VOV.VN - A total of 14,208 new cases of COVID-19, including 15 imported infections were recorded, while more than 10,250 patients were declared free from the SARS-CoV-2 virus, said the Ministry of Health in its September 7 update.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh will attend the 7th Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) summit in Cambodia this week at the invitation of Cambodian PM Samdech Techno Hunsen.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on September 6 chaired a regular Government meeting, focusing on socio-economic performance in August and the first eight months of this year.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has expressed hope that the US will continue to support Vietnam in COVID-19 prevention and control, especially in the vaccine strategy amid the global shortage of COVID-19 vaccines.