(VOVWORLD) - In the past 24 hours, Vietnam’s COVID-19 caseload was 8,776. Ho Chi Minh City had the most cases: 3,416; Hanoi had 40 cases.

(VOVWORLD) - The capital city of Hanoi has conducted massive COVID-19 testing for high-risk people in an effort to quickly stamp out the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak and return to a “new normal.”

(VOVWORLD) - Hoa Binh provincial Fatherland Front has sent commodities shipment to support Ho Chi Minh City in its pandemic control effort. More than 120 businesses and agencies in the province donated more than 300 tons of goods and cash donation worth over 150,000 USD.

(VOVWORLD) - According to worldometers.info, as of Wednesday morning, the world had recorded more than 204.7 million cases of COVID-19, with more than 4.3 million deaths.

(VOVWORLD) - The 36th Contracting Squadron at Andersen Air Force Base in the US territory of Guam are poised to send a total of 77 ultra-low temperature freezers at a total value of 690,000 USD to Vietnam. This is part of the joint effort to partner with the Vietnamese Government in the fight against COVID-19.

(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnamese government has set a goal of keeping the fresh coronavirus outbreak nationwide in check in September, according to a resolution recently signed by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.

(VOVWORLD) -Vietnam documented an additional 4,802 new COVID-19 infections, including ten imported, from 6:30pm on Tuesday to 6am on Wednesday raising the national count to 232,937, according to the Ministry of Health.

(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) announced results of pre-clinical research on herbal medicine for COVID-19 called VIPDERVIR at an online press conference on Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - The Health Ministry confirmed 8,390 new COVID-19 infections in 39 localities on Tuesday, sending the ongoing coronavirus wave's tally to more than 224,000.

(VOVWORLD) - 300,000 Hanoi citizens in high-risk areas will be randomly tested for COVID-19 from now until next Tuesday, the Hanoi Department of Health has announced.