(VOVWORLD) - US President Donald Trump has signed into law a massive 2.3 trillion USD spending bill that includes a 900 billion USD coronavirus relief package, averting a government shutdown and extending coronavirus aid to millions suffering from the economic impact of the pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam’s latest success story is in the health sector, senior journalist Veeramalla Anjaiah wrote in his article, “Learning from Vietnam on how to handle COVID-19”, published in the Jakarta Post on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Sunday signed a public telegram on COVID-19 prevention and control, requesting speedy tracing of people in contact with patient No. 1440, strictly controlling entries into Vietnam, and containing the spread of infections to the community.

(VOVWORLD) - Europe launches a cross-border vaccination programme of unprecedented scale on Sunday as part of efforts to end a COVID-19 pandemic that has crippled economies and claimed more than 1.7 million lives around the world.

(VOVWORLD) - Local authorities in the Mekong Delta are rushing to trace all people who had direct and indirect contact with a Vietnamese man who illegally crossed the border earlier this week.

(VOVWORLD) - Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has said that after nearly a year fighting the COVID-19 epidemic, Vietnam has achieved initial results in epidemic prevention and vowed to maintain these achievements ahead of the Lunar New Year holidays.

(VOVWORLD) - Over 340 Vietnamese citizens were flown home from Russia on a repatriation flight by Vietnam Airlines on Thursday and Friday as a joint effort of competent authorities of both nations.

(VOVWORLD) - The COVID-19 had recorded 80.2 million infections and killed more than 1.7 million people worldwide on Saturday, according to statistics website worldometer.

(VOVWORLD) -Six imported cases of COVID-19 were reported in the past 24 hours to 6pm on Friday, raising the national count to 1,439, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

(VOVWORLD) - 85% of those vaccinated with Russia’s Sputnik-V COVID-19 vaccine do not have any side effects, Alexander Ginzburg, head of Russia’s Gamaleya Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, said on Friday.