(VOVWORLD) -Vietnamese authorities have transported medical equipment donated by the Vietnamese government and people to Japan and brought home nearly 300 Vietnamese citizens of special needs in the return Vietnam Airlines flight.

(VOVWORLD) -Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, Head of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, on Wednesday emphasized on key principles applied to cities and provinces classified into different risk groups.

(VOVWORLD) - One of the possible complications of a novel coronavirus patient is DIC syndrome, Dmitry Morozov, head of the Health Care Committee of the Russian Duma said on Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - COVID-19 has caused, in 210 countries and territories around the world, 2.5 million infections and at least 177,000 deaths, according to Worldometer as of Wednesday morning.

(VOVWORLD) - Six more COVID-19 patients were discharged from the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases on Wednesday, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control. They will continue to be quarantined and monitored for the next 14 days

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam has relied upon mobilizing society and conducted massive social closures and extensive surveillance of citizens to prevent the spread of the COVID-19, the US-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has said.

(VOVWORLD) - Evidence suggests that the SARS-CoV-2 virus originated in animals in China late last year and was not produced in a laboratory, WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib told reporters Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - Hoang Binh Quan, Head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations, has sent letters to political parties around the world to share information about the COVID-19 situation and prevention measures in Vietnam and propose ways to cooperate in fighting the epidemic.

(VOVWORLD) - 70,000 face masks were presented to the Russian security and law-enforcement agencies via the Russian embassy in Vietnam at a Tuesday ceremony in Hanoi.

(VOVWORLD) - The International Labor Organization released a report entitled COVID-19 and the labor market in Viet Nam. The report pointed out that by the end of the second quarter the pandemic can affect the livelihood of 4.6 to 10.3 million workers, whether through a decline in working hours, in wages or, ultimately, job loss.