Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on August 23 issued an official dispatch on strengthening COVID-19 prevention and control measures nationwide.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Don Pramudwinai underlined COVID-19 vaccines as a humanitarian necessity at the First Meeting of the International Forum on COVID-19 Vaccine Cooperation.

VOV.VN - Cuba will provide Vietnam with 10 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine from now until the end of 2021, President Miguel Díaz-Canel told Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc during phone talks on August 23 evening.

VOV.VN - Polish Ambassador to Vietnam Wojciech Gerwel handed over 501,600 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to the Ministry of Health on the morning of August 23.

VOV.VN - A local research team working on developing Nano Covax, a homegrown COVID-19 vaccine, have unveiled the promising outcomes of the mid-term phase 3a clinical trials.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese Embassy in Russia has been making active moves in an effort to promote “vaccine diplomacy” as a means of supporting the homeland’s ongoing battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, Ambassador Dang Minh Khoi has said.

VOV.VN - The Czech Government has decided to donate over 250,000 COVID-19 vaccines and a number of quick test kits, whilst also pledging to transfer a further 500,000 doses to the country to help contain the COVID-19 pandemic as soon as possible.

The Vietnamese Consulate General in Japan’s Fukuoka raised JPY776,000 (US$7,066) for Vietnam’s COVID-19 vaccine fund at a virtual fundraising event held on August 21.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City must test every resident during its ongoing extended social distancing period, according to the Prime Minister’s telegram dated August 22.

VOV.VN - The municipal administration of Da Nang city decided on August 21 to extend the central city’s lockdown period for an additional three days, banning people from going out in order to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.