(VOVWORLD) -The Ministry of Health of Vietnam on Wednesday issued an urgent dispatch on strengthening the prevention and control of COVID-19 to the People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities.

(VOVWORLD) -Vietnam recorded 183 COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, up 70 cases compared to the previous day and the highest number of daily cases so far this year, according to the Ministry of Health.

(VOVWORLD) - India is seeing a surge in COVID-19 cases, with more than 6,000 new cases and 11 deaths in the past 24 hours, according to India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

(VOVWORLD) - Researchers at the University of Miami reported on Thursday what they believe are the first two confirmed cases in which the SARS-CoV-2 virus crossed a mother’s placenta and caused brain damage in the infants they were carrying.

(VOVWORLD) - The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday he expected the organisation to lift the emergency status of COVID-19 sometime this year, without giving a more specific time frame.

(VOVWORLD) - The World Health Organization chief pressed China on Thursday to share its information about the origins of COVID-19, saying that until that happened all hypotheses remained on the table, more than three years after the virus first emerged .

(VOVWORLD) -More than 3.57 million new COVID-19 cases were recorded worldwide and more than 25,000 new deaths, down 27% and 39% respectively in the latest 28-day cycle, according to the global COVID-19 epidemiology report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) -World Health Organization (WHO) representative in Vietnam Dr Angela Pratt has said that Vietnam is in the sustainable management phase of the COVID-19 pandemic as the situation continues to stabilize with a very low number of reported daily cases, and importantly no reported deaths in over two months.

(VOVWORLD) -The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed on Wednesday it plans to end mandatory COVID-19 tests for travelers from China, joining other countries in eliminating the requirements.

(VOVWORLD) - The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has de-escalated BA.2, BA.4 and BA.5 from its list of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOC), as these parental lineages are no longer circulating.