(VOVWORLD) - Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday began its largest vaccination campaign ever to contain the coronavirus which is ravaging the city. 836,000 vaccine doses allocated by the Government for Ho Chi Minh city will be administered in a week at 1,000 vaccination stations.

(VOVWORLD) - Young artist Nguyen Manh Quang is transforming old, mossy walls in Hanoi into propaganda paintings to raise public awareness of the battle against COVID-19.

(VOVWORLD) - 62 more COVID-19 cases were confirmed from 12 noon to 6pm on Friday, raising the total number of cases in the day in Vietnam to 264. Of them, 149 cases were detected in Ho Chi Minh City, said the Ministry of Health.

(VOVWORLD) - Localities nationwide must organize COVID-19 vaccinations as scheduled and avoid a slow rollout, said the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control at a meeting on Friday chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam.

(VOVWORLD) - A representative of Pfizer Vietnam on Thursday confirmed that 31 million doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine will be provided for Vietnam this year following the Ministry of Health’s conditional approval of Pfizer vaccine for emergency use in the country.

(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnam Association of Manpower Supply has asked the government to provide COVID-19 vaccination to Vietnamese guest workers whose contracts have expired.

(VOVWORLD) - The Health Ministry announced 119 new local cases of COVID-19 at noon on Friday, raising the total number of domestic infections for the morning to 200.

(VOVWORLD) - The Health Ministry announced 119 new local cases of COVID-19 Friday noon, raising the total count of domestic infections since the morning to 200.

(VOVWORLD) - Ho Chi Minh city is set to begin its COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Saturday, with priority groups to get injected with about 800,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses donated by the Japanese Government.

(VOVWORLD) - Ho Chi Minh city has been asked to work harder to impose restriction measures on the smallest possible scale to avoid large-scale social distancing.