(VOVWORLD) - The International Monetary Fund has approved the creation of a short-term liquidity facility to assist countries in combating the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, said IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva.

(VOVWORLD) - 12 localities deemed to have a high risk of COVID-19 transmission, including Hanoi, Quang Ninh province, and Ho Chi Minh City, will continue to implement social distancing measures for another one or two weeks, or even longer if infections continue to be detected.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnamese scientists have developed a new robot that can clean and disinfect hospital rooms to support medical staff in the battle against the novel coronavirus.

(VOVWORLD) - Worldometers.info reports that as of late Thursday there were 2,085,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 worldwide, of whom 134,700 have died and 515,500 have recovered.

(VOVWORLD) - WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says he regrets US President Donald Trump’s decision to withhold funding the WHO.

(VOVWORLD) - Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong met with Chinese Ambassador to Vietnam Xiong Bo in Hanoi on Thursday to explore ways to boost cooperation in agricultural development and trade in the face of the deadly COVID-19 epidemic.

(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnamese Association in the Czech Republic on Wednesday donated medical face masks to 2 nursing homes in Prague.

(VOVWORLD) - ASEAN Secretary-General Dato Lim Jock Hoi praised the Vietnamese leaders’ strong response to COVID-19 following Wednesday’s online Special ASEAN and ASEAN+3 Summits.

(VOVWORLD) - A girl of the H’Mong ethnic minority group was confirmed positive for SARS-CoV-2 on Thursday morning, raising the total tally of COVID-19 infections in Vietnam to 268, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

(VOVWORLD) -The Ministry of Education and Training has prepared different scenarios on national upper secondary school graduation exams.