(VOVWORLD) - 1,000 volunteers injected with home-grown vaccine Nanocovax in the third-phase trials have developed antibodies against COVID-19, according to a report by the Nanogen Pharmaceutical Biotechnology JSC, the vaccine producer.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam’s frozen dracontomelon has been shipped to Australia for the first time, according to the Vietnam Trade Office in Australia.

(VOVWORLD) - Ho Chi Minh City, the epicenter of the current COVID-19 wave, will open 150 new grocery stores in densely-populated areas in the next few days, said Nguyen Nguyen Phuong, Deputy Director of the city’s Department of Industry and Trade.

(VOVWORLD) -A major Indian pharmaceutical company has expressed hope of establishing a pharmaceutical industrial park in Vietnam with an initial investment of approximately 500 million USD.

(VOVWORLD) - The UK government will not stand in the way of another vote on Scottish independence if it is the “settled will” of the voters, UK Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said in an interview with the Sunday Mail on Sunday.

(VOVWORLD) - The Indian Army said on Sunday that another military hotline has been established with the Chinese army to increase trust and a spirit of cordial relations between the two countries along the Line of Actual Control.

(VOVWORLD) - Nearly 1.2 million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from the COVAX Facility arrived in Vietnam on Monday, bringing the total donations from the global vaccine sharing initiative to the country to more than 8.6 million doses.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam will likely receive a large amount of COVID-19 vaccines in the 4th quarter of this year, including up to 50 million doses of Pfizer, Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) - The Ministry of Health said that from 6:30 pm on Sunday to 6:00 am on Monday, Vietnam confirmed 3,201 COVID-19 cases, of which 3 were imported and 3,198 were locally-transmitted. There were 1,997 new cases in Ho Chi Minh City.

(VOVWORLD) - The Prime Minister has announced an electricity rate reduction of 10-15% for two months for customers in localities that are locked down because of the current COVID-19 outbreak.