(VOVWORLD) - The recent rise in H5N1 cases is “worrying”, said Dr. Sylvie Briand, WHO’s director of epidemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention
(VOVWORLD) - Dozens of people in China have fallen ill with a new virus that is also found in shrews, a report of the New England Journal of Medicine has said,...
(VOVWORLD) - Coronavirus is still evolving and scientists do not have the same predictability as they had with influenza, according to a WHO epidemiologist
(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam has confirmed an additional 19 coronavirus cases over the past 12 hours, while the virus has attacked Ha Giang, the 12th affected locality in the country, according to...
(VOVWORLD) - People who have had COVID-19 are highly likely to have immunity to it for at least five months but there is evidence that those with antibodies may still be...
(VOVWORLD) - The Nobel Prize in Medicine has been jointly awarded to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice "for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus." The Prize was...
(VOVWORLD) - Bloomberg ran an article on Monday saying that Vietnam’s economy unexpectedly expands amid virus outbreak
(VOVWORLD) -Thomas Schaefer, the finance minister of Germany’s Hesse state, has committed suicide, apparently after becoming “deeply worried” about economic fallout from the coronavirus epidemic, state premier Volker Bouffier...
(VOVWORLD) -North Korea on Saturday welcomed a letter from US President Donald Trump to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, saying it was a sign of "the special and very firm...
(VOVWORLD) - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday urged Middle East states to offer more information about coronavirus cases to help bolster the fight against the disease across the region
(VOVWORLD) - The novel coronavirus outbreak (SARS-CoV-2) threatens to erase 29 billion USD of this year’s revenue for global airlines, mostly for Chinese carriers, as travel crashes worldwide,...
(VOVWORLD) - Cambodia on Wednesday allowed the remaining 233 passengers on board the Westerdam cruise ship to disembark after test results showed that none of them were positive for the COVID...
(VOVWORLD) - WHO chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking at the Munich conference on Saturday, praised Beijing for its efforts to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak, but warned that “it’s...
(VOVWORLD) - The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has transferred virus samples to Vietnam to study and use to produce a vaccine against African swine fever
(VOVWORLD) - A three-month-old baby from Binh Xuyen district, Vinh Phuc province, has tested positive for the novel coronavirus (nCoV), according to the Health Ministry
(VOVWORLD) - Deputy Minister of Defense Senior Lieutenant General Tran Don on Thursday chaired a meeting of the Ministry’s Steering Committee for nCoV-caused acute pneumonia response
(VOVWORLD) - Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Indonesian President Joko Widodo emphasised the need to boost cooperation among countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to cope with the...
(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam’s health sector is capable of diagnosing, treating, and curing patients infected with acute respiratory disease caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus (nCoV), Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen...
(VOVWORLD) - A man in the northern province of Vinh Phuc has tested positive for the novel coronavirus (nCoV), the 9th confirmed case in Vietnam so far, the Ministry of Health (MoH...
(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minster Nguyen Xuan Phuc urged ministries, agencies and localities to work harder to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus (nCoV) in Vietnam