VOV.VN - A total of 12,607 fresh cases of COVID-19, including 16 imported infections were recorded, while more than 10,000 patients were declared free from the SARS-CoV-2 virus, said the Ministry of Health in its August 31 update.

VOV.VN - As many as 107,216 recovered COVID-19 patients in Ho Chi Minh City have now been discharged from hospital after making a full recovery from the virus, according to the municipal Centre for Disease Control (CDC).

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, during his phone talks with his Belgian counterpart Alexander De Croo on August 25 evening, requested that Belgium help Vietnam access COVID-19 vaccine supplies from the COVAX Facility.

An escalation in COVID-19 cases and deaths in July-August will undermine Vietnam’s previously strong recovery from the pandemic shock and may temporarily set back the positive rating momentum, said Fitch Ratings.

VOV.VN - Vietnam’s GDP is expected to expand by about 4.8% in 2021, or 2% lower than the projection made by the World Bank Group in December 2020, the WB says in its latest edition Taking Stock released on August 24.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has confirmed an additional 10,811 coronavirus infections during the past 24 hours, with more than two thirds recorded in Ho Chi Minh City and Binh Duong, the country’s two largest coronavirus hotspots.

Adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic growth of Vietnam’s key cities, such as Hanoi and HCMC, has been slower, the exodus of migrant workers leaving HCMC may make the path of recovery planned by enterprises more bumpy.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has detected an additional 11,214 coronavirus infections during the past 24 hours, raising its national cumulative tally of infections to nearly 350,000, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said in its coronavirus update on August 22 evening.

VOV.VN - The coronavirus outbreak in Binh Duong is hitting its peak as the numbers of new infections and recoveries are levelling off, according to Assoc. Prof. & Dr. Nguyen Lan Hieu, director of the Hanoi Medical University.

VOV.VN - A Malaysian Airlines plane carrying 50,000 vials of Remdesivir, a much-sought-after drug to treat COVID-19 globally, touched down at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City late August 21.