VOV.VN - Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dung and his Lao counterpart Phoxay Khaykhamphithoune virtually co-chaired the 6th Political Consultation between their Ministries of Foreign Affairs to discuss bilateral relations as well as global issues of mutual concern.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Heath on August 30 received a haul of 250,800 COVID-19 vaccine doses donated by the Government of the Czech Republic.

Facing the dangerous and highly contagious Delta variant in the fourth wave of COVID-19, relevant agencies are strongly utilising technology as a useful tool for large-scale contact tracing, testing, and vaccination management.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has ordered authorities to seek proper vaccine sources and ensure that students are put in the priority group to receive vaccinations as soon as possible so they can return to school.

Ho Chi Minh City’s People's Committee on August 27 received medical supplies and vehicles worth VND161 billion donated by the Truong Hai Automobile Joint Stock Company (THACO) in support of the city's COVD-19 fight.

The Australian Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City on behalf of the Australian Government handed over 403,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine to Vietnam on August 27.

VOV.VN - Vietnam recorded an additional 12,920 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hour to 6:30 p.m. on August 27 across 42 localities, thereby raising the overall infection count in the latest outbreak to 406,223 according to figures published by the Ministry of Health.

VOV.VN - An additional 263,250 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine arrived on August 27 in Hanoi.

VOV.VN - Results from the phase 3a clinical trial of the domestically-produced COVID-19 vaccine Nanocovax on more than 1,000 volunteers have been adopted by the National Biomedical Research Ethics Council (NBREC).

VOV.VN - Two batches of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, consisting of a total of 1,442,300 doses, arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on the morning of August 27.