(VOVWORLD) -A field hospital with modern equipment was set up on Sunday at the Medical Center of Dien Bien Phu city, Dien Bien province. As of Sunday, Dien Bien reported 3 cases of COVID-19.

(VOVWORLD) - The rate of coronavirus spread in the world is decreasing, Maria Van Kerkhove, an expert of the World Health Organization (WHO), said at a briefing.

(VOVWORLD) - Deputy Foreign Minister To Anh Dung said the number of Vietnamese living abroad have increased in recent years, challenging civil protection affairs.

(VOVWORLD) - The first doses in the COVAX program will reach Vietnam in the first quarter of this year if favorable, said Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam has confirmed an additional 19 coronavirus cases over the past 12 hours, while the virus has attacked Ha Giang, the 12th affected locality in the country, according to the National Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

(VOVWORLD) - Dien Bien has become Vietnam’s 11th province infected with COVID-19 as the province on Friday reported two more cases related to Hai Duong, Vietnam’s biggest epidemic hotspot, said Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long.

(VOVWORLD) - The Ministry of Health on Friday received 21 billion VND (over 900,000 USD) donated by enterprises to the ministry’s fund for purchasing COVID-19 vaccine.

(VOVWORLD) -The Vietnam Vaccine Joint Stock Company (VNVC) has announced that it will import 30 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine from the UK in the first half of 2020.

(VOVWORLD) -British researchers are to explore mixing doses of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines shots in a world first trial aimed at finding new ways to swiftly reduce coronavirus infections as new mutated variants emerge.

(VOVWORLD) - A member of the World Health Organization-led team searching for clues to the origins of COVID-19 in the central Chinese city of Wuhan said work was needed to try to trace genetic elements of the virus in bat caves.