(VOVWORLD) - Medical equipment and essential goods were handed over to Cambodia’s Pray Veng province on Friday at Dinh Ba international border gate in the southern province of Dong Thap to help Pray Veng fight the Covid-19 pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - The US Department of Health and Human Services announced an agreement with DuPont to expedite the delivery of critical personal protective equipment needed for frontline US healthcare workers responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - The US Department of Defense on Thursday expressed great concern over reports that a Chinese Coast Guard vessel collided with and sank a Vietnam fishing boat near the Paracel Islands in the East Sea.

(VOVWORLD) - More than 1,600,000 COVID-19 infections have been reported globally, with over 95,000 deaths.

(VOVWORLD) -Budget carrier Vietjet Air announced on Friday it will conduct three additional flights from Hanoi to HCM City, in addition to its regular daily flights, to ferry passengers coming out of quarantine measures introduced to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc chaired an online national conference with localities on Friday to discuss measures to cope with the COVID-19 epidemic. High on the agenda were removing difficulties in production and business, accelerating disbursement of public investment, ensuring social security, and maintaining law and order.

(VOVWORLD) - In a resolution issued Thursday night, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc approved a bailout package worth more than 2.6 billion USD to support people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - The ASEAN Special Summit and the ASEAN+3 Special Summit on COVID-19 Response will be held online in Hanoi next Tuesday, according to Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc chaired an online national conference with Vietnamese localities on Friday to seek ways to cope with the COVID-19 epidemic while ensuring production and business.

(VOVWORLD) - ASEAN Foreign Ministers on Thursday agreed to form a shared COVID-19 response fund to fight the disease.