VOV.VN - Hanoi has been advised to prepare a plan aimed at allowing F1 cases to isolate at home, with the number of COVID-19 cases being detected across the capital increasing every day, according to experts.

More than 2,000 medical devices and supplies have been transported to a field storage serving COVID-19 prevention and control activities in Ho Chi Minh City - the country's current largest pandemic hotspot, and other southern localities.

The Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) of Ho Chi Minh City said on July 22 that it had sent an official dispatch to authorized agencies, proposing the use of its religious establishments as temporary COVID-19 treatment hospitals and quarantine facilities for Buddhist monks and nuns.

VOV.VN - The administration of Quang Nam province have requested that locals return to the locality before midday on July 22 due to COVID-19 quarantine checkpoints being set up in order to tighten pandemic control measures, causing an exodus of people leaving Da Nang.

VOV.VN - The capital city of Hanoi has begun carrying out an extensive testing campaign, starting on July 19, focusing on groups of people vulnerable to virus infection.

Ho Chi Minh City is piloting the use of a mobile app developed by military-run telecom group Viettel to continuously monitor close contacts with COVID-19 patients, or F1 cases, who are under home quarantine.

VOV.VN - The national infection tally rose to more than 51,000 after the Health Ministry confirmed a further 2,472 fresh cases of COVID-19, including 18 imported on July 18 morning, with Ho Chi Minh City continuing to suffer the most infections at 1,756.

VOV.VN - The capital has seen a number of places placed under lockdown following two peole testing positive for COVID-19.

VOV.VN - Border guards operating in the northern province of Cao Bang said on July 16 that they have successfully detained 29 people who illegally entered the country from China.

Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo discussed cooperation between the two countries as well as regional and international issues of shared concern during their online talks on July 15.