(VOVWORLD) - The Covid-19 pandemic has now affected 213 countries and territories with more than 5.5 million infections, and the global death toll has exceeded 347,000, according to the statistics website Worldometers.

(VOVWORLD) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that primary schools in England will partially reopen on June 1.

(VOVWORLD) -Politico, an American political news agency, has ranked Vietnam the best Covid-19 performer globally.

(VOVWORLD) - Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo lifted a coronavirus state of emergency in Tokyo and four other areas on Monday, ending the restrictions nationwide as businesses begin to reopen.

(VOVWORLD) - Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto said the discipline demonstrated by Vietnamese people is the key for the country’s successful containment of Covid-19.

(VOVWORLD) -A Vietnam Airlines special flight carrying 343 Vietnamese citizens of difficult circumstances landed in Hanoi at 10am on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) - No fresh coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Vietnam for the past 24 hours, marking 39 straight days the country has gone without locally transmitted infections, according to the Ministry of Health.

(VOVWORLD) - As of Sunday morning, the world confirmed more than 5.4 million people infected with SARS-CoV-2 with more than 340,000 deaths, according to Worldometer.

(VOVWORLD) - Regional solidarity among ASEAN members is key to fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic, said Nehginpao Kipgen, Executive Director at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) and Aakriti Bansal, a research assistant at the center.

(VOVWORLD) - Relevant Vietnamese agencies and representative offices in Europe and Africa and national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines have over the past two days coordinated with host authorities to conduct flights bringing home safely more than 300 Vietnamese citizens.