(VOVWORLD) - 314 million COVID-19 infections and 5.5 million deaths had been confirmed worldwide as of Wednesday noon, according to worldometer.info.

(VOVWORLD) -Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Tuesday signed an official dispatch on speeding up vaccination and implementation of measures to fight COVID-19.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam recorded 16,035 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, according to the Ministry of Health.

(VOVWORLD) - The world had recorded 310.6 million COVID-19 infections and more than 5.5 million deaths as of Tuesday, according to worldometers.info.

(VOVWORLD) - 14,818 new infections of COVID-19 were recorded in 62 provinces and cities in Vietnam on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) -Vietnam on Friday reported 16,278 new COVID-19 infections, of which 24 were imported and 16,254 were recorded domestically, down 163 from the previous day. Hanoi has the most cases: 2,723. In the past 24 hours, 14,633 cases were given the all clear and 233 deaths were reported.

(VOVWORLD) - The more infectious Omicron variant of COVID-19 appears to produce less severe disease than the globally dominant Delta strain, but should not be categorised as "mild", World Health Organization (WHO) officials said on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has requested two ministries to carry out a survey on COVID-19 vaccination for children 5 and older.

(VOVWORLD) - The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) on Thursday handed over 6.3 million single-use syringes to the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, part of 42.5 million syringes worth 2.5 million USD that will be donated by the Republic of Korea (RoK) Government through KOICA to the Ministry of Health of Vietnam for its COVID-19 vaccination program.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam logged additional 16,472 COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours as of 4 pm on Thursday.