(VOVWORLD) -Vietnam documented an additional 5,149 new COVID-19 infections, including five imported, from 6:30pm on Monday to 6am on Tuesday , raising the national count to 224,894, according to the Ministry of Health.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam received 494,400 doses of Vaxzevria vaccine (formerly known as AstraZeneca) from the COVAX Facility on Monday, UNICEF Vietnam announced.

(VOVWORLD) - An additional 9,340 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Vietnam on Monday, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said.

(VOVWORLD) - Some of the medical staff of Military Zone 9 have been deployed to a field hospital in the Mekong Della city of Can Tho to help fight COVID-19 there.

(VOVWORLD) - Hanoi will conduct large-scale testing for about 300,000 residents in high-risk areas and those with a high risk of infection from now until next Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - There are early signs that people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 may be able to transmit the Delta variant of the virus as easily as those who have not, scientists at Public Health England (PHE) said on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - Hanoi will prepare 8,000 beds for COVID-19 patients at medium, serious and critical conditions, getting the city ready for a scenario of 40,000 infections.

(VOVWORLD) - The southern Mekong delta province of Hau Giang needs to control the COVID-19 pandemic well before the social distancing period under Directive 16 of the Prime Minister ends, said Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam.

(VOVWORLD) - The Ministry of Health said that from 6:30 p.m. on Sunday to 6:00 a.m. on Monday Vietnam confirmed 5,155 new infections, including 15 imported cases and 5,140 locally-transmitted cases. Ho Chi Minh City had the most with 2,349 cases, Binh Duong province 1,725 cases.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam logged an additional 4,949 new COVID-19 infections, including 4,947 domestic and two imported cases, in the past 12 and a half hours to 6:30pm on Sunday, the Ministry of Health reported