VOV.VN - Health workers in Ho Chi Minh City have identified and quarantined a total of 235 people who either came into direct or indirect contact with two positive novel coronavirus (COVID-19) patients in the southern city.

VOV.VN - A female Vietnamese guestworker of Ca Mau province has recently died of COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia, confirmed a local official.

VOV.VN - Romenio Pereira, the secretary for international relations of the Brazilian Workers Party (PT), paid a courtesy visit to the Vietnamese Ambassador to Brazil Pham Thi Kim Hoa on November 4 at the Vietnam Embassy in Brazil.

VOV.VN -Despite some labour export markets opening up to receive Vietnamese workers following the containment of the COVID-19 pandemic, local labour export enterprises find it difficult to recruit workers.

VOV.VN - More than 350 Vietnamese citizens stranded in the United States and Japan due to COVID-19 have been brought home safely by national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines.

VOV.VN - Nearly 350 Vietnamese citizens left stranded in Russia due to the COVID-19 pandemic have been safely repatriated by national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines.

VOV.VN - A seminar was held on October 29 in Seoul, the Republic of Korea (RoK), to disseminate new regulations relating to Vietnamese guest workers employed in the RoK under the Employment Permit System (EPS) programme.

The 16th ASEAN Senior Labour Officials’ Meeting (SLOM) took place via video conference on October 26, with the participation of representatives from the 10 member states and the ASEAN Secretariat.

VOV.VN - Close to 450 Vietnamese citizens were repatriated home safe and sound from the Republic of Korea (RoK) on October 21 on a flight arranged by Vietnamese authorities, the Vietnamese Embassy in the RoK, national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines, in coordination with Korean competent agencies.

Authorities in Vietnam are planning to help guest workers whose contracts end to return home from overseas amid the COVID-19 pandemic.