(VOVWORLD) - A package of medical equipment and supplies worth 13,000 USD to support COVID-19 prevention and control efforts was given to the Border Guard Command in the southern region at a ceremony on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) - France, Italy and Spain are preparing to loosen coronavirus restrictions, with other countries watching closely to see how some of the first and hardest-hit countries in Europe might safely emerge from their crippling lockdowns.

(VOVWORLD) - The Ministry of Health announced on Monday that Vietnam has successfully studied serology in order to test the coronavirus causing COVID-19.

(VOVWORLD) - As of 6am on Monday there were no community transmission of coronavirus in Vietnam for 11 days in a row, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

(VOVWORLD) - The World Health Organization has approved made-in-Vietnam COVID-19 test kits, making it easier for the kits to be exported to other countries.

(VOVWORLD) - More than 100 Vietnamese citizens were brought home on Sunday thanks to the joint efforts by Vietnamese authorities, Vietjet Air, and Indonesian agencies, the returnees, who include children, elderly people, and students, landed at the Cần Thơ airport in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho.

(VOVWORLD) -212 countries and territories around the world have reported more than 2.9 million confirmed infections and more than 206,000 deaths from the novel coronavirus, according to statistics website worldometers.info.

(VOVWORLD) - After three months of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic by quarantining suspected virus carriers, treating symptomatic patients, and encouraging everyone else to practice social distancing, Vietnam has so far effectively contained the disease and has received international praise for its disease response. Despite its negative economic impact, the epidemic has brought with it some heartening realizations.

(VOVWORLD) - A Vietjet Air flight carrying 105 Vietnamese citizens from Indonesia landed at Can Tho International Airport in southern Vietnam on Sunday afternoon. All of them were immediately brought to a quarantine facility of the Army’s 897 Regiment in Soc Trang province.

(VOVWORLD) - As of Monday morning, Vietnam entered the 3rd day without recording a new case of COVID-19, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.