(VOVWORLD) - 1,000 volunteers injected with home-grown vaccine Nanocovax in the third-phase trials have developed antibodies against COVID-19, according to a report by the Nanogen Pharmaceutical Biotechnology JSC, the vaccine producer.

(VOVWORLD) - Ho Chi Minh City, the epicenter of the current COVID-19 wave, will open 150 new grocery stores in densely-populated areas in the next few days, said Nguyen Nguyen Phuong, Deputy Director of the city’s Department of Industry and Trade.

(VOVWORLD) - Nearly 1.2 million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from the COVAX Facility arrived in Vietnam on Monday, bringing the total donations from the global vaccine sharing initiative to the country to more than 8.6 million doses.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam will likely receive a large amount of COVID-19 vaccines in the 4th quarter of this year, including up to 50 million doses of Pfizer, Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) - In the past 24 hours, Vietnam recorded 8,620 Covid-19 cases, of which 23 were imported and 8,597 were locally-transmitted, the Ministry of Health announced on Sunday evening.

(VOVWORLD) - A cargo train departed Hanoi on Sunday morning for Ho Chi Minh City carrying medical equipment and supplies from Bach Mai hospital to help the southern city fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - The world’s leading organizations launched a joint petition on Saturday to coronavirus vaccine producers to prioritize delivering doses to low- and middle-income countries.

(VOVWORLD) - According to worldometers.info, as of Sunday morning, the world had recorded more than 198 million COVID-19 cases and more than 4.23 million deaths.

(VOVWORLD) - On Saturday, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh issued an official dispatch urging provinces and centrally-run cities to focus on drastic, substantive, and effective measures to prevent and control the COVID-19 pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - As of Sunday morning, Vietnam had a total of 150,060 cases, of which 38,734 were cured.