(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam will conduct the first phase of human trials of a locally made COVID-19 vaccine from December 10, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long said at a meeting in Hanoi with Vietnamese vaccine producers on Saturday.

(VOVWORLD) - According to worldometers.info, as of Sunday morning, confirmed COVID-19 infection cases worldwide exceeded 66.8 million, with over 1.5 million fatalities.

(VOVWORLD) - The outlook for the global economy is improving despite a second wave of coronavirus outbreaks in many countries as vaccines emerge and a Chinese-led recovery takes hold, the OECD said on Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - Canadian-based CBC News has published a story about Sabrina Pinksen, a woman from the small town of Wild Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), Canada, who finds her experience living in Vietnam on the outset of COVID-19 unforgettable.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam did not record any new cases of COVID-19 and 11 more patients were declared cured by Friday afternoon, said the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

(VOVWORLD) - Global COVID-19-related deaths have passed the 1.5 million mark. According to an AFP tally released on Friday, the number of deaths caused by the coronavirus has recorded more than 10,000 cases per day worldwide, an unprecedented level.

(VOVWORLD) - Leaders and scientists from more than 100 countries and organizations are attending a 2-day online special UN session on the COVID-19 pandemic, the greatest health crisis of the 21st century.

(VOVWORLD) - Three cases of COVID-19, all imported cases, were recorded on Thursday by 6pm, raising the national count to 1361, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

(VOVWORLD) -Vietnam on Wednesday reported seven imported cases of COVID-19, raising the overall number of active cases nationwide to 1,358, while the recoveries total 1,201.

(VOVWORLD) -The Health Ministry has announced a guidance on safety criteria for Covid-19 prevention in public and private clinics nation-wide.