VOV.VN - Hanoi and Gia Lai province became the country’s first localities to launch their vaccination campaigns against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on March 9, with key workers being inoculated with the AstraZeneca vaccine.

VOV.VN - Activist Merle Ratner of the US and Prof. Ngo Thanh Nhan, joint co-ordinators of the Vietnam Agent Orange Relief & Responsibility Campaign which fights for aid for Agent Orange/Dioxin victims in the US, have stated that the 13th National Party Congress marks a turning point which will help Vietnam move into a new period of socialism.