(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam’s e-commerce market is forecast to continue growing in the post-pandemic period, with revenue surpassing last year's 11.8 billion USD, according to a recent workshop held as part of Techfest Vietnam 2021.

(VOVWORLD) - Britain will start to roll out Merck's molnupiravir COVID-19 antiviral pill through a drug trial later this month, Susan Hopkins, Chief Medical Adviser at the UK Health Security Agency said on Sunday.

(VOVWORLD) - Nearly 96% of enterprises at 17 processing and industrial zones in Ho Chi Minh City have resumed operations after social distancing measures were lifted, according to the HCM City Export Processing and Industrial Zones Authority.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has requested intensified measures against COVID-19 as the number of new cases rises across the country.

(VOVWORLD) - An additional 7,646 cases of COVID-19 were reported in Vietnam on Sunday bringing the nationwide tally to 968,684.

(VOVWORLD) - The world had recorded 250.2 million COVID-19 infections as of 4PM on Sunday, including more than 5 million deaths, according to worldometers.com.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam recorded 7,491 infections of COVID-19, including 11 imported cases, and 7,480 cases in 55 localities in the past 24 hours to 4pm on Saturday , according to the Ministry of Health.

(VOVWORLD) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday (Nov 5) he would convene a virtual meeting of foreign ministers from around the globe to discuss the Covid-19 pandemic next week, pledging to work to address global inequalities in access to vaccines.

(VOVWORLD) - From 4pm on Thursday to 4pm on Friday, Vietnam recorded 7,504 new infections, of which 17 were imported and 7,487 were locally-transmitted, the Ministry of Health said on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - Britain on Thursday became the first country in the world to approve a potentially game-changing COVID-19 antiviral pill jointly developed by U.S.-based Merck & Co Inc and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, in a boost to the fight against the pandemic.