VOV.VN - An additional 14 positive cases of COVID-19 were detected on April 30 afternoon, including 10 imported cases and 4 domestic infections in Hanoi capital and the northern province of Ha Nam, said the Ministry of Health.

VOV.VN - Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son has been invited by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to visit Russia at an appropriate time and the invitation was accepted with pleasure.

VOV.VN - More than 2,000 staff working at Tan Son Nhat International Airport and Pleiku Airport received their novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines on April 27.

VOV.VN - The country documented no new cases of COVID-19 on the morning of April 28, while close to 320,000 people were vaccinated against COVID-19, according to the Ministry of Health.

VOV.VN - Covax Facility has pledged to deliver an additional nearly 9 million doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine to Vietnam, raising its committed volume to 38.9 million doses.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh has stressed the leading role the United Nations plays in combating the COVID-19 pandemic, in a message delivered to the 77th Commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Committee of Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP).

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has asked localities and people to stay highly vigilant and strictly follow the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 recommendations, including donning face masks, amid coronavirus threats in the community.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has kept a close watch on COVID-19 situation in India and is willing to support the Government and people of India in this hard time, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang said on April 26.

VOV.VN - Vietnam is hopeful it can produce its first local COVID-19 vaccine this year, with the third trial phase of trials for the NanoCovax vaccine set to be completed in late September while the COVIVAC vaccine will enter the second phase by the end of June, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).

Director General of the General Department of Preventive Medicine Dang Quang Tan has mentioned three reasons for Vietnam not yet accepting “vaccine passports”.