(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam is calling for stronger cooperation in production and technology transfer of COVID-19 vaccine and drugs, said Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long at meetings on Tuesday with the Ambassadors to Vietnam of Belgium, Russia, and the UK.

(VOVWORLD) - According to worldometers.info, as of Wednesday morning, the world had recorded more than 267 million cases of COVID-19, with 5.28 million deaths.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam recorded 13,840 cases of COVID-19 in 59 localities on Tuesday, according to the Ministry of Health.

(VOVWORLD) - A major British study into mixing COVID-19 vaccines has found that people had a better immune response when they received a first dose of AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech shots followed by Moderna nine weeks later, according to the results on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) - The world had recorded more than 266.6 million cases of COVID-19, with nearly 5.28 million deaths, as of Tuesday, according to worldometers.info.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam confirmed 14,591 new infections of COVID-19 and 223 deaths on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) - Future pandemics could be even more lethal than COVID-19 so the lessons learned from the outbreak must not be squandered and the world should ensure it is prepared for the next viral onslaught, one of the creators of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine said.

(VOVWORLD) - Early indications on the severity of the Omicron Covid-19 variant are "a bit encouraging", President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, told CNN, adding that scientists need more information before drawing conclusions about Omicron’s severity.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam reported additional 14,314 COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours as of 4 pm Sunday, according to the Ministry of Health.

(VOVWORLD) - More than 200 military doctors, nurses, and students from Military Zone 9 arrived at the Can Tho International Airport on Saturday evening to support Mekong Delta provinces to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.