(VOVWORLD) - The Government was soon aware of the importance of domestic vaccine production and has worked to speed up the process in a timely, safe, and effective manner, said Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.

(VOVWORLD) - The EU on Thursday said 200 million Europeans had been fully vaccinated, more than half of the adult population but still short of a 70 percent target it had set for the summer.

(VOVWORLD) - Ho Chi Minh City’s High Command will disinfect the entire city in the next seven days as a way to prevent the spreading of the coronavirus virus.

(VOVWORLD) - The People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City has asked for more medical staff to support its COVID-19 prevention and control efforts.

(VOVWORLD) - Three quarters of Singapore's COVID-19 infections in the last four weeks were among vaccinated individuals, government data shows, as a rapid ramp-up in the city state's inoculations leaves fewer people unvaccinated.

(VOVWORLD) - More than 1.2 million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine arrived at Tan Son Nhat airport in HCM City on Friday morning, according to the Health Ministry.

(VOVWORLD) - HCM city will tighten its coronavirus restrictions in the next two weeks, ramping them up in certain areas by banning people from leaving their homes.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam is in talks with the United States on domestic production of mRNA vaccines, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, as the country looks to boost supplies amid its worst coronavirus outbreak yet.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam’s health and science officials met on Thursday to mull the approval of homegrown COVID-19 vaccine Nanocovax for emergency use.

(VOVWORLD) - China rejected on Thursday a World Health Organization (WHO) plan for a second phase of an investigation into the origin of the coronavirus, which includes the hypothesis it could have escaped from a Chinese laboratory, a top health official said.