VOV.VN - The nation aspires Russia to help it ensure vaccine supplies, accelerate the implementation of signed vaccine contracts and vaccine production technology transfer, especially COVID-19 medicine production, and other medical supplies and medicines.

Vietnam welcomes a proposal to upgrade the ASEAN-China relationship, Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son said at the ASEAN-China Foreign Ministers’ Meeting held via videoconference on August 3 as part of the 54th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM-54) and Related Meetings.

VOV.VN - Thousands of residents of Dong Da district in Hanoi were vaccinated against the COVID-19 pandemic at an inoculation site located in the capital’s first field hospital.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son underscored four key solutions to promoting post-pandemic economic recovery and development in the Mekong sub-region at the second virtual Mekong-US Partnership Ministerial Meeting (MUSP) on August 3.

VOV.VN - Vietnam stays ready to work alongside other countries to strengthen and deepen the strategic partnership that exists between ASEAN and the Republic of Korea (RoK) in the new period.

VOV.VN - The nation received 415,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on August 3 in Hanoi after they were donated by the British Government.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health has recently granted approval for clinical trials to begin on the ARCT-154 COVID-19 vaccine, with medical tests set to begin on August 8 at Hanoi Medical University.

VOV.VN - Vietnam recorded an additional 3,578 new local COVID-19 cases on August 3 morning , including 1,998 in Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s biggest coronavirus epicenter, bringing the southern city's tally in the new pandemic wave to 100,557.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health has approved six COVID-19 vaccines for emergency use in Vietnam, and all of them are safe and effective against the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

An annual dialogue between ASEAN Foreign Ministers and representatives of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) took place virtually on August 2 within the framework of the 54th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM-54).