(VOVWORLD) - Quickly establishing a testing system and thorough quarantine measures are the main factors behind Vietnam’s success in containing COVID-19 community infections, a Japanese expert was quoted as saying by the Japanese public broadcaster NHK on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam has no new community transmission of COVID-19 in 57 consecutive days, the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control said on Friday. Of the 332 cases confirmed so far in Vietnam, only 11 are still active.

(VOVWORLD) - A global online forum for think tanks was held this week in Beijing to call for closer international cooperation in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam is named the best COVID-19 response country in the world with 95% of net approval rating for government handling of the pandemic, according to survey data of the UK’s data analysis and market research firm YouGov.

(VOVWORLD) - The Japanese government has officially begun to consider easing entry-exit restrictions for citizens from Vietnam, Thailand, Australia, and New Zealand.

(VOVWORLD) - As of Wednesday, the world recorded more than 7.3 million COVID-19 infections and over 413,000 deaths, according to worldometers.info.

(VOVWORLD) - For the first time in 75 years, world leaders will not converge in New York City for their annual UN General Assembly in September due to the coronavirus pandemic, Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, President of the UN General Assembly, said at a press conference on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam has gone 55 straight days with no new community transmissions of Covid-19.

(VOVWORLD) - More than 340 Vietnamese citizens were brought home from the US on Sunday and Monday thanks to Vietnamese authorities, Vietnam Airlines, and US agencies.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam has gone 54 days in a row without any community transmission of the novel coronavirus.