(VOVWORLD) - 300 Vietnamese citizens will be brought home from Australia and New Zealand next Friday on a repatriation flight arranged by authorities in the two countries, and Vietnam Airlines.

(VOVWORLD) -Kidong Park, representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Vietnam, on Wednesday said that the occurrence of new cases of COVID-19 in Da Nang is not alarming as this strain of virus is no different from the virus spreading in other countries.

(VOVWORLD) -COVID-19 is spreading widely in Vietnam with mutation, so everybody needs to be highly vigilant, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said.

(VOVWORLD) - Da Nang on Tuesday resumed its social distancing. People have been ordered not to go out unless necessary and to follow all recommended disease prevention measures. Non-essential shops have been closed.

(VOVWORLD) - 340 Vietnamese citizens were brought home from Japan on Tuesday on a repatriation flight arranged by authorities in Vietnam and Japan, and Vietnam Airlines.

(VOVWORLD) - Hanoi authority on Wednesday morning put parts of Me Tri ward in Nam Tu Liem district and a pizza restaurant on Tran Thai Tong street, Cau Giay district, under lock-down, following the detection of a suspected positive case of COVID-19, said the Cau Giay District People's Committee.

(VOVWORLD) - Eight more people in the central city of Da Nang have tested positive for the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that causes the acute respiratory disease (COVID-19).

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam detected 7 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

(VOVWORLD) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has hailed Vietnam for its quick response to the latest COVID-19 outbreak and for bringing back its stranded citizens from abroad.

(VOVWORLD) - A Vietnam Airlines flight departed Hanoi on Tuesday bound for Equatorial Guinea to bring home 219 Vietnamese citizens, 120 of them infected with coronavirus.