(VOVWORLD) - The US Department of Health and Human Services announced an agreement with DuPont to expedite the delivery of critical personal protective equipment needed for frontline US healthcare workers responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - More than 1,600,000 COVID-19 infections have been reported globally, with over 95,000 deaths.

(VOVWORLD) -Budget carrier Vietjet Air announced on Friday it will conduct three additional flights from Hanoi to HCM City, in addition to its regular daily flights, to ferry passengers coming out of quarantine measures introduced to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - In a resolution issued Thursday night, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc approved a bailout package worth more than 2.6 billion USD to support people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - The ASEAN Special Summit and the ASEAN+3 Special Summit on COVID-19 Response will be held online in Hanoi next Tuesday, according to Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc chaired an online national conference with Vietnamese localities on Friday to seek ways to cope with the COVID-19 epidemic while ensuring production and business.

(VOVWORLD) - ASEAN Foreign Ministers on Thursday agreed to form a shared COVID-19 response fund to fight the disease.

(VOVWORLD) - The UN Security Council met on Thursday to discuss the coronavirus pandemic at the request of Vietnam and 8 other non-permanent members.

(VOVWORLD) - Countries are racing against time to develop therapeutic treatments for COVID-19 and a vaccine to prevent the disease, which continues to ravage the world. But a joint effort is needed to speed up the vaccine development.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Thursday chaired a government meeting to review disease prevention and control measures and ways to strengthen social distancing regulations amid the spreading Covid-19 epidemic.