(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam in July recorded a year-on-year increase of 2.1% in manufacturing and processing output and 4.6% in retail sales, according to a World Bank report.

(VOVWORLD) - The World Food Programme will ship 50,000 tons of wheat flour to Beirut, enough to supply Lebanon for three months, to avert a food crisis following last week’s explosion in Beirut that killed 158 people, said the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - Russia has already received requests from more than 20 countries for 1 billion doses of its newly-registered COVID-19 vaccine, said Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund.

(VOVWORLD) - A 500-bed field hospital inside a sports center in Da Nang, Vietnam’s COVID-19 hotspot, is expected to begin operating on Wednesday. The hospital will reserve 480 beds for COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms and 20 for critically ill cases.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam reported three more COVID-19 cases Wednesday morning, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

(VOVWORLD) - Hanoi authorities and health officials on Tuesday received 50,000 COVID-19 sample collection kits worth 200,000 USD from Vietnam Dairy Products JSC (Vinamilk).

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnamese Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of Vietnam’s permanent mission to the UN, said that providing relief for Lebanese civilians should be the top priority, and called on the international community to increase humanitarian aid to Lebanon.

(VOVWORLD) - Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, head of the National Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control, affirmed the key role of the military, including the border guard force, in battling COVID-19.

(VOVWORLD) - Joe Biden, the US’s presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, announced Tuesday that Kamala Harris of California, who he describes as one of America’s finest public servants, is his vice presidential pick.

(VOVWORLD) - After 102 days with no new infections, New Zealand on Tuesday confirmed 4 new COVID-19 cases - a family in Auckland, New Zealand’s biggest city.