(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Sunday asked for greater individual and organization responsibility in the fight against COVID-19, adding that accountability must be held and criminal punishment can be applied to individuals and organizations violating disease prevention regulations.

(VOVWORLD) - A field hospital for COVID-19 patients has been set up in the northern province of Ha Nam where a number of locally transmitted cases have been detected over the past few days.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam has no new cases of COVID-19 to report for the past 12 hours to 6am of May 2, according to the Ministry of Health.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has called on the entire people and army to join hands with the government to fight COVID-19 urging strict implementation of disease prevention measures.

(VOVWORLD) -Police fired water cannon and tear gas in a Brussels park on Saturday to break up an anti-lockdown party of several hundred people designed to defy coronavirus social distancing rules.

(VOVWORLD) - High-ranking diplomats from China, Germany, France, Russia, and Britain made progress on Saturday at talks on bringing the United States back into their landmark nuclear deal with Iran, but said they need more work and time to bring about a future agreement.

(VOVWORLD) - The United States has formally begun withdrawing its last troops out of Afghanistan, bringing its longest war nearer to an end but also heralding an uncertain future for a country in the tightening grip of an emboldened Taliban.

(VOVWORLD) - North Korea on Sunday criticized South Korea and the US a North Korean defection group in South Korea on Friday spread anti-North Korea propaganda leaflets despite the ban of the South Korean government and US President Joe Biden delivered his first policy speech to Congress on Thursday criticizing the North's nuclear program.

(VOVWORLD) - The UK-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (UKVFTA), which officially took effect on Saturday, is expected to provide a fresh impetus for economic and trade cooperation between the two countries.

(VOVWORLD) - According to worldometers.info, as of May 1, the world had recorded total 152,133,661 COVID-19 cases and 3,196,536 deaths. 129,439,543 cases have been recovered.