(VOVWORLD) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) will continue to work with the Government of Vietnam to plan for and transition towards endemic COVID-19 and living safely with the virus long term, even...
(VOVWORLD) - More than 137 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine had been administered in Vietnam as of Saturday morning, with one dose coverage reaching 96.8%, and the rate for two doses...
(VOVWORLD) - The World Health Organization on Friday approved for emergency use the COVID-19 vaccine Covovax produced by the Serum Institute of India under licence from Novavax. The decision paves...
(VOVWORLD) - The SARS-COV-2’s latest variant Omicron has spread to 60 countries. There is some evidence that it can evade the antibodies created by existing vaccines, but...
(VOVWORLD) -Early data shows that the Omicron variant is more contagious than the Delta strain and reduces the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine, but causes less severe symptoms, the...
(VOVWORLD) - A UN Security Council panel has approved sanction exemptions for an aid project by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to help North Korea respond to COVID-19 and...
(VOVWORLD) - Asia-Pacific countries should boost their healthcare capacity and fully vaccinate their people to prepare for a surge in COVID-19 cases fuelled by the Omicron variant, officials at the World...
(VOVWORLD) - The Omicron COVID-19 variant could hurt global growth prospects while also pushing prices higher, rating agencies Fitch Ratings and Moody's Investors Service said on Monday, after the...
(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam is working closely with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC) in response to new coronavirus variant Omicron, according...
(VOVWORLD) - On November 24, 2021, scientists in South Africa reported a new coronavirus variant with 32 mutations in the spike protein, much higher than the number of mutations found in other variants. Two days later, the World Health...
(VOVWORLD) - The Omicron coronavirus variant spread around the world on Sunday, with new cases found in the Netherlands, Denmark and Australia even as more countries imposed travel restriction to try...
(VOVWORLD) - President Nguyen Xuan Phuc expressed his hope that partners will strongly support Vietnam to become a center for m-RNA vaccine technology transfer and a vaccine producer for the...
(VOVWORLD) - The discovery of a new coronavirus variant named Omicron triggered global alarm on Friday as countries rushed to suspend travel from southern Africa
(VOVWORLD) - The World Health Organization (WHO) convened an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss the potentially rapidly spreading coronavirus strain (called B.1.1.529) found in South Africa and...
(VOVWORLD) - Another 700,000 Europeans could die of COVID-19 by next March, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned
(VOVWORLD) - The Hanoi Department of Health has agreed to reduce the waiting time between two AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine shots to four weeks from eight, VnExpress reported
(VOVWORLD) - The World Health Organization on Wednesday announced a new committee to investigate the origins of the current pandemic and prevent potential outbreaks in the future
(VOVWORLD) - People with weaker immune systems should receive an additional shot of an approved COVID-19 vaccine, an advisory group to the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday
(VOVWORLD) - The World Health Organization has started shipping COVID-19 medical supplies into North Korea through the Chinese port of Dalian
(VOVWORLD) - Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has gained wide support for a second term as head of the World Health Organisation, formally nominated by at least 17 European Union members and backed by...