(VOVWORLD) - The World Health Organization (WHO) is still working to identify the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, its director general said on Friday, after a US agency was reported to have assessed that the pandemic had likely been caused by a Chinese laboratory leak.

(VOVWORLD) - China has achieved a major and decisive victory in COVID-19 prevention and control since November, 2022, the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee said at a meeting on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday that COVID-19 continues to constitute a public health emergency of international concern, its highest form of alert.

(VOVWORLD) -WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the emergency phase of the pandemic is not over, pointing to surging numbers of deaths and warning that the global response to the crisis "remains hobbled".

(VOVWORLD) -7 million people in China were infected with COVID-19 and 4,300 died when the pandemic reached its peak late last month, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Wednesday.

(VOVWORLD) -The Ministry of Health said on Monday that during the day, Vietnam recorded only three new cases of COVID-19, the lowest number of daily COVID-19 cases recorded in more than two years.

(VOVWORLD) - As the upcoming Lunar New Year will be a time for social gathering, food safety and COVID-19 preventive measures should be taken, the World Health Organisation in Vietnam said on Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - The Ministry of Health has warned of the potential risk of COVID-19 outbreaks due to the emergence of new variants of SARS-CoV-2.

(VOVWORLD) -The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that the XBB.1.5 Omicron sub-variant of COVID-19 may be spurring more cases.

(VOVWORLD) - China's health authority on Friday adjusted COVID-19 prevention and control measures, saying it aimed to optimize clinical categorization and treatment nearly a month after it scrapped a rigid zero-COVID policy.