VOV.VN - The Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control (HCDC) is monitoring entrants from abroad, especially from Africa, to find out symptoms of Nipah virus - a disease with a high mortality rate.

VOV.VN - The Prime Minister is scheduled to chair a meeting of the National Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control this week in order to examine if Vietnam should declare an end to the COVID-19 pandemic, said Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan.

The Ministry of Health is continuing to develop a sustainable response plan to the COVID-19 pandemic in the new situation, considering the context of dangerous new variants appearing.

VOV.VN - With the number of COVID-19 cases locally witnessing a considerable increase in recent times, the Hanoi Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has sent 10 samples with positive rapid test results for SARS-CoV-2 virus to Bach Mai Hospital for genome sequencing.

VOV.VN - The pediatric department of Thanh Nhan Hospital in Hanoi has witnessed a sharp rise in the number of patients infected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).

The Ho Chi Minh City government has urged local medical facilities to take action in response to the spread of dengue fever and the Marburg virus.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City has conducted a rehearsal in preparation for the potential emergence of new sub-variants of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resurgence of the virus during the lunar New Year, known locally as Tet.

VOV.VN - Concerned about the impact of XBB, a sub-variant of the Omicron virus, Ho Chi Minh City has taken actions in an effort to keep COVID-19 under control, particularly as the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival, the biggest of its kind in Vietnam, is approaching.

Ho Chi Minh City targets to reduce the rate of hepatitis B virus infection in children under five years old to less than 0.5%, and prevent mother-to-child transmission of the hepatitis B virus by 2050.

VOV.VN - With ongoing unpredictable developments relating to XBB, a sub-variant of the Omicron virus, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has called for drastic preventive measures aimed at dealing with the pandemic during the Lunar New Year, known locally as Tet, and the festive season.