(VOVWORLD) - Global death toll from the novel coronavirus climbed over 120,000 on Tuesday night (Vietnam time), according to figures compiled by Worldometer.info.

(VOVWORLD) - US enterprises on Tuesday praised Vietnam’s success in handling the COVID-19 epidemic and showed interest in Vietnam’s plans to resume trade and production activities once the epidemic is under control.

(VOVWORLD) - US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will halt all US funding to the World Health Organization and criticized the organization’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - Revolutionary contributors, social beneficiaries, and poor and near-poor households will receive money from a government financial support package worth 2.6 billion USD, said Dao Ngoc Dung, Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs.

(VOVWORLD) - Regional media have run articles applauding ASEAN’s solidarity and coordination in the COVID-19 fight since Vietnam on Tuesday hosted two online Special ASEAN Summits on fighting the pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - State leaders and international organizations have lauded Vietnam’s role in organising the Special ASEAN Summit and ASEAN+3 Summit on COVID-19.

(VOVWORLD) - The National Assembly’s upcoming 9th plenary session will be held online for half of the total time duration due to the COVID-19, according to Assembly general secretary Nguyen Hanh Phuc.

(VOVWORLD) - The Special ASEAN Summit via video conference chaired by Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Tuesday issued a joint statement.

(VOVWORLD) - The Ministry of Health on Wednesday morning announced that another person in Vietnam’s Hanoi capital has been infected with the novel coronavirus, taking the country’s tally to 267.

(VOVWORLD) -Vietnamese agencies and the UK Embassy in Vietnam brought 100 British citizens stranded in Vietnam and Cambodia due to the novel coronavirus to their home country on Monday on a Vietnam Airlines flight, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday.