(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Head of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, hosted a meeting on Saturday to review COVID-19 response efforts over the past week and work out solutions in the coming time.

(VOVWORLD) - As of Saturday, there have been nearly 225 million COVID-19 infections and more than 4.6 million deaths in the world, according to worldometers.info.

(VOVWORLD) - The Ministry of Health said that from 5 p.m. on Thursday to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Vietnam recorded 13,321 new infections, of which 15 were imported and 13,306 were domestic. Ho Chi Minh City remained the locality with the highest number of cases: 7,539.

(VOVWORLD) -The Government's Special Working Group on COVID-19 Prevention and Control on Friday worked with Ho Chi Minh City on a plan for pandemic response and economic recovery after September 15, the deadline set by the Government for the city to contain the outbreak.

(VOVWORLD) - Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long on Friday inspected vaccination sites in Dong Da and Long Bien district in Hanoi.

(VOVWORLD) - Babies whose mothers have COVID-19 will receive 44 USD each, according to the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs. The beneficiaries must be born between April 27 and the end of this year.

(VOVWORLD) - President Joe Biden took aim on Thursday at vaccine resistance in America, announcing policies requiring most federal employees to get COVID-19 vaccinations and pushing large employers to have their workers inoculated or tested weekly.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam plans to reopen the beach-fringed island of Phu Quoc to foreign tourists from next month, authorities said, as the country looks at ways to revive an economy suffering from extended social distancing due to the coronavirus pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam logged additional 12,420 OCVID-19 infections including 21 imported cases and 12,399 domestically transmitted cases from 5 pm on Wednesday to 5 pm on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - The European Medicines Agency released its regular vaccine safety updates on Wednesday, which added an extremely rare nerve-damaging disorder, Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), as a possible side-effect of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine.