(VOVWORLD) - A 68-year-old woman with leukemia was confirmed dead on early Saturday at Da Nang Oncology Hospital in the central city of Da Nang, according to Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son.

(VOVWORLD) - The Ministry of Health on Saturday organized an online conference connecting 63 provinces and cities to discuss ways to improve the capacity for medical clinics in receiving and treating COVID-19 patients.

(VOVWORLD) -Vietnam on Friday evening reported 37 more cases of CVOID-19, of whom 26 cases were immediately isolated, 3 cases in Ho Chi Minh city, and 8 cases in Quang Nam, said the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

(VOVWORLD) -From 0 hour August 1, Hanoi will temporarily stop all crowd activities, bars, karaoke parlors, and sidewalk tea stalls.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam on Friday reported 13 critical COVID-19 patients and the first death of heart attack, severe underlying illness, and COVID-19. As of Friday, a total of 139 COVID-19 patients were being treated at 18 hospitals in Vietnam, said the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

(VOVWORLD) - The global economic outlook remains gloomy due to the increasing number of COVID-19 cases and the fact that many countries will likely re-impose shutdown, according to Reuters survey.

(VOVWORLD) - Four more COVID-19 patients have made a full recovery and were discharged from the National Tropical Diseases Hospital on Friday morning, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

(VOVWORLD) - Da Nang established 24 hour checkpoints at eight entrances on Friday to screen everyone entering the city as part of efforts to contain and prevent the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

(VOVWORLD) - All military units are determined to be on the front lines of the COVID-19 fight, Senior Lieutenant General Tran Don, Deputy Defense Minister, said at a meeting of the Ministry’s Steering Board on COVID-19 Prevention and Control in Hanoi on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnamese authorities and Vietnam Airlines coordinated with US agencies to bring home 300 Vietnamese citizens via San Francisco, and Narita, Japan, on Wednesday and Thursday.