The new virus outbreak has affected 70% of local firms with 3.5-5 million people laid off or set to have their work hours reduced according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

VOV.VN - A total of 40 artists nationwide have collaborated in a music project by composer Nguyen Van Chung to send a message of encouragement to frontline medical workers as they battle the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has sent letters to city and provincial People’s Committees to guide signing and implementing agreements with Korean localities on sending Vietnamese workers there for seasonal work.

VOV.VN - A total of 100 free meals each day are being sent to frontline workers currently in isolation areas in Buon Ma Thuot city in the Central Highland province of Dak Lak as they battle on the frontline against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

VOV.VN - The central city of Da Nang, the nation’s latest epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, has proposed using trains to repatriate residents left stranded in the locality back to their hometowns.

The Ministry of Health and the AIA (Vietnam) Life Insurance Co. Ltd on August 13 signed an agreement on financial support worth VND23 billion (US$992,000) for frontline medical workers in the COVID-19 combat.

VOV.VN - The south-central province of Khanh Hoa has managed to transform approximately 2,000 hotel rooms into quarantine sites to be used by foreigners, according to the provincial Department of Health.

Many firms have been caught off guard by the sudden spike in new COVID-19 cases, disrupting plans adjusted after the pandemic’s initial impacts.

Some 8 million face masks will be presented to healthcare workers, police officers and border guard forces, and people in difficult circumstances during the fight against COVID-19, under a project funded by the CP Vietnam Corporation’s charitable fund.

VOV.VN - A Vietnam Airline A350 departed from Hanoi on July 28 morning to Equatorial Guinea to bringing home 219 Vietnamese workers, of whom 129 people have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus.