(VOVWORLD) - A newly-built National Assembly building funded by Vietnam is to be handed over to Laos as Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc is paying an official friendship visit to Laos on Monday and Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, his wife Tran Nguyet Thu and a high-ranking delegation of the Party and State of Vietnam left Hanoi on Monday for an official friendship visit to Laos.

(VOVWORLD) - The Ministry of Health said that from 6:30 p.m. on Sunday to 6:00 a.m. on Monday Vietnam confirmed 5,155 new infections, including 15 imported cases and 5,140 locally-transmitted cases. Ho Chi Minh City had the most with 2,349 cases, Binh Duong province 1,725 cases.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam logged an additional 4,949 new COVID-19 infections, including 4,947 domestic and two imported cases, in the past 12 and a half hours to 6:30pm on Sunday, the Ministry of Health reported

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Sunday attended the inauguration of the telehealth platform connecting all district hospitals and the launch of the National Technology Center for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

(VOVWORLD) - Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has asked authorities of the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang to step up COVID-19 screening and testing in the community, especially in high-risk places such as markets, bus stations, and airports.

(VOVWORLD) - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the ASEAN Women's Circle of Hanoi (AWCH) on Sunday ointly held the ASEAN Family Day 2021 themed “ASEAN unites and joins hands to fight COVID-19”.

(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday held a virtual ASEAN flag salute ceremony to celebrate the bloc’s 54th founding anniversary (August 8, 1967) and 26 years of Vietnam’s membership of the association.

(VOVWORLD) - Thousands of blood units were collected at a blood donation drive in Hanoi on Saturday to address blood shortages nationwide.

(VOVWORLD) - The Ministry of Transport has approved the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) to halt all commercial flights between provinces and cities that are social distancing, including Hanoi – Ho Chi Minh City route and vice versa.