(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam will conduct the first phase of human trials of a locally made COVID-19 vaccine from December 10, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long said at a meeting in Hanoi with Vietnamese vaccine producers on Saturday.

(VOVWORLD) - Nguyen Anh Tuan, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, has called on young physicians to improve their professional qualifications.

(VOVWORLD) - US President Donald Trump on Friday joined a rally in Georgia to push supporters to turn out for a pair of Republican Senate candidates in a runoff election in January.

(VOVWORLD) - Moscow began distributing the Sputnik V COVID-19 shot via 70 clinics on Saturday to the most exposed groups, marking Russia's first large-scale vaccination against the disease, the city's coronavirus task force said.

(VOVWORLD) - According to worldometers.info, as of Sunday morning, confirmed COVID-19 infection cases worldwide exceeded 66.8 million, with over 1.5 million fatalities.

(VOVWORLD) - Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techno Hun Sen on Saturday asked for closure of businesses and restaurants which do not abide by the Health Ministry’s regulations on COVID-19 prevention and control and urged people to wear masks and practice social distancing under regulations.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam and Laos on Sunday signed 17 cooperative agreements at the end of the 43rd session of the Vietnam-Laos Inter-Governmental Committee.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam recorded four new COVID-19 cases from 6pm of Friday to 6pm of Saturday, all Vietnamese and imported, according to the National Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control. The new cases including 3 in Ho Chi Minh City and one in Da Nang were quarantined upon their arrival, the committee added.

(VOVWORLD) - An event to promote Quang Ninh’s seafood and local specialties (OCOP products) and tourism opened in Hanoi on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson are set to hold a telephone call on Saturday afternoon (London time) after the EU and the UK made little progress this week in sealing a post-Brexit trade deal.