The first buses carrying students of Bach Mai Medical College in Hanoi leave for HCM city on August 21, 2021. (Photo: Thanh Dat/VNA)

They will support Ho Chi Minh City, Binh Duong, Long An, and Dong Nai in testing and treating people for COVID-19.

More than 14,000 medical personnel have already been deployed to HCM City and other pandemic-hit localities in the south.

The Health Ministry has provided HCM City with 10 new testing vans, along with enough personnel and equipment to analyze 3,000 test samples per day.