(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam recorded 15,220 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, according to the Health Ministry.

(VOVWORLD) - The SARS-COV-2’s latest variant Omicron has spread to 60 countries. There is some evidence that it can evade the antibodies created by existing vaccines, but experts don’t have much clinical data on its virulence.

(VOVWORLD) - The world has recorded nearly 271 million cases of COVID-19 and more than 5.32 million deaths as of Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam confirmed 15,377 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, according to the Ministry of Health.

(VOVWORLD) -Early data shows that the Omicron variant is more contagious than the Delta strain and reduces the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine, but causes less severe symptoms, the World Health Organization said on Sunday.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam confirmed 14,638 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, including 980 in Hanoi.

(VOVWORLD) - Israeli researchers said on Saturday they found that a three-shot course of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine provided significant protection against the new Omicron variant.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Friday requested agencies and localities to strictly control the COVID-19 pandemic to minimize new infection cases, severe cases and deaths amid the surge of community cases and risk of highly-mutated Omicron variant entering and spreading in Vietnam.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam reported 15,311 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours as of 4pm on Thursday. They included 11 imported cases and 15,300 locally-transmitted cases in 61 cities and provinces.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam recorded 14,599 new COVID-19 cases, of which 4 were imported and 14,595 were recorded domestically in 58 provinces and cities from 4pm on Tuesday to 4pm on Wednesday.