VOV.VN - As many as 230 samples taken from F1 cases linked to novel coronavirus (COVID-19) patients in Ho Chi Minh City, Ha Tinh, and Khanh Hoa provinces have come back negative for the SARS-CoV-2-virus.

VOV.VN - The Hanoi Centre for Disease Control (CDC) on May 11 morning reported the detection of an addition two cases confirmed positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, including one patient undergoing treatment for cancer at National Cancer Hospital known as K Hospital.

VOV.VN - Local authorities in Da Nang city conducted a rehearsal of elections on May 9 in a simulation scenario that the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to spread far and wide in the community on the official election day (May 23).

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health announced an additional 78 coronavirus cases on the morning of May 10 as the SARS-CoV-2 has spread to more than one third of Vietnam’s localities.

VOV.VN - A 52-year-old woman, the first Vietnamese COVID-19 patient in Laos and also the first COVID-19 patient in the country had died of the disease after a week of treatment, according to the Vietnamese Embassy in Vientiane.

The People's Committee of Danang City started to apply the “market coupon” policy throughout the city from May 8 to limit gatherings amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

VOV.VN - A further 5 positive cases of SARS-CoV-2 related to an outbreak in the northern province of Bac Ninh and the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases in the capital city were detected on May 9 morning, according to the Hanoi Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

VOV.VN - The Health Ministry confirmed 15 additional new locally- transmitted cases on the morning of May 9, raising the national infection tally to 256 during the past 12 days.

VOV.VN - The Tan Trieu medical facility belonging to K Hospital in Hanoi was thoroughly disinfected on May 7, with the site’s entire premises put into lockdown after the detection of 10 positive novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases.

VOV.VN - Local authorities and residents of Sa Pa town in Lao Cai province are doing their utmost to implement COVID-19 prevention and control measures, with the resort town facing a high risk of local transmission in the period following national public holiday.