(VOVWORLD) -Vietnam logged 360 new COVID-19 infections, including 356 domestic and four imported cases, in the past six hours to 6pm on Sunday, the Ministry of Health (MoH) announced.

(VOVWORLD) - In the past 6 hours to 12 noon Sunday, Vietnam recorded 6 imported COVID-19 patients, which were quarantined immediately upon arrival in Kien Giang province, and 254 locally-transmitted cases, mostly in Ho Chi Minh City (213),

(VOVWORLD) - Defending Vietnam’s national border and fighting illegal entries and the COVID-19 pandemic will be the major tasks of the border forces assigned at the online military conference on Saturday.

(VOVWORLD) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a revised version of Russia’s national security strategy, according to the decree published on the Kremlin’s website on Saturday.

(VOVWORLD) - Iran denied on Saturday US accusations that Tehran supported attacks on US forces in Iraq and Syria, and condemned US airstrikes on Iranian-backed militants there, state media reported.

(VOVWORLD) - WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the world is in an extremely dangerous stage of the COVID-19 pandemic as the Delta variants have been found in at least 98 countries.

(VOVWORLD) - The Party Politburo has agreed to pilot the vaccine passport policy with international visitors in a number of tourist sites where the COVID-19 pandemic has been contained. Phu Quoc resort island in the southern province of Kien Giang will go first. This is a golden chance for Vietnam’s tourism sector to revive after a year-long hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic. But strict requirements for safety measures will be imposed.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on July 4 sent messages of congratulations to US President Joe Biden on the US’s 245th Independence Day (July 4, 1776 – 2021).

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Sunday chaired an online meeting with leaders of eight southern localities on measures to stamp out the COVID-19 pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam logged 353 new COVID-19 cases from in the past six hours to 6pm on Saturday, raising the total number of infections in the day to 922, a record high so far, reported the Ministry of Health.