(VOVWORLD) - A new and more contagious variant of COVID-19 from the UK has been found in patients in the northern provinces of Hai Duong and Quang Ninh, according to the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology.

(VOVWORLD) - Global media have highlighted the importance of the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam confirmed one new locally-transmitted COVID-19 infection between 6 p.m Monday to 6 a.m Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - The World Health Organization (WHO) is having good discussions on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic with Chinese officials, said the WHO’s COVID-19 technical lead Maria Van Kerkhove Monday.

(VOVWORLD) - Hanoi needs to tighten its COVID-19 response because the coronavirus now has a higher transmission rate than before, Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said at a working session with local authorities on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US aims at extending the New Strategic Arms Reduction Strategy for additional 5 years and considering counter measures against some anti-US actions from Russia. Mr. Blinken said President Joe Biden has mentioned these worries during last week’s phone call with President Putin.

(VOVWORLD) - A Myanmar army official said that lawmakers of the National League of Democracy Party (NLD) were freed on Tuesday morning.

(VOVWORLD) - An exhibition on King Gia Long, the first king of the Nguyen Dynasty (1802–1945), has opened at Long An Palace of the Hue Royal Antiquities Museum.

(VOVWORLD) - More than 1,130 wild animals in Vietnam were rescued last year as 57.1 percent of the 2,216 violation cases reported by civilians handled, said the Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV) on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) - Authorities in Hanoi have ordered the temporary closure of online game and internet shops from Tuesday early morning, as part of the efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 pandemic in the city, according to Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Chu Xuan Dung.