VOV.VN - Local businesses should take drastic preventive measures and speed up vaccination for their employees in order to adapt to the unpredictable challenges brought about by COVID-19 and live safely with the pandemic in the long-run, suggested industry insiders.

VOV.VN - Slowing COVID-19 vaccination rate, along with travel restrictions, inadequate economic response policies, and limited social support schemes, have significantly affected the national economy, said Jacques Morisset, chief economist of the World Bank (WB) in Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Many businesses in Ho Chi Minh City, the epicenter of the country’s latest coronavirus outbreak, have faced a serious shortage of workers possessing a COVID-19 ‘green card’ as they struggle to resume production, according to industry insiders.

VOV.VN - As of September 14, Vietnam has surpassed a total of 30 million shots of COVID-19 vaccines, according to figures given by the National Vaccine Registration Portal.

VOV.VN - The Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Health has sent a dispatch to the Ministry of Health (MoH) to request for the approval of narrowing the gap between doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from six weeks to between eight and 12 weeks.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City, the largest coronavirus hotspot in Vietnam at present, had vaccinated nearly 5.1 million people as of August 18, according to the municipal Department of Health.

VOV.VN - Vingroup, a leading Vietnamese multi-sectoral conglomerate, plans to build a COVID-19 vaccine production plant in Hanoi with a designed capacity of between 100-200 million doses a year.

VOV.VN - Vietnam confirmed an additional 3,552 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases in 31 cities and provinces nationwide during the past 12 hours, raising its cumulative tally of infections to 98,465.

VOV.VN - In a report submitted to the National Assembly on July 24, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long admitted that Vietnam’s vaccine rollout is slow and the national vaccination rate remains low at 5%.

VOV.VN - As many as 4,040,783 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Vietnam since the fits shot was given on March 3, the Ministry of Health said on July 11.