(VOVWORLD) - Although COVID-19 is on track to hit 20 million cases and 750,000 deaths in more than 210 countries and territories this week, the head of the World Health Organization on Monday pointed to “green shoots of hope” and urged governments and citizens worldwide to keep working to halt the pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - Two more people have died in Vietnam due to COVID-19-related complications, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son announced on Monday evening.

(VOVWORLD) - 340 Vietnamese citizens were brought home from Russia on Monday, thanks to Vietnamese and Russian authorities and Vietnam Airlines.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam reported no new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday morning, keeping the national count at 847, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam reported 6 new coronavirus cases on Monday, according to the Health Ministry.

(VOVWORLD) - Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on Sunday urged localities not to let the COVID-19 epidemic break out on a large scale.

(VOVWORLD) - More than 300 Vietnamese citizens were repatriated from South Korea by a Vietnam Airlines flight that landed at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport on Saturday.

(VOVWORLD) -A Vietnam Airlines flight on Sunday brought home more than 300 Vietnamese citizens from South Korea due to the impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) -Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has called for continued drastic measures to fight COVID-19, saying if these measures are implemented as aggressively as in the last 2 weeks, the disease will be controlled and a large-scale outbreak will not occur.

(VOVWORLD) -Vietnam has confirmed the 11th COVID-related death since the COVID-19 epidemic broke out in the country.