(VOVWORLD) - Romania is the first EU country that volunteered to purchase and host, on behalf of the European Union, a stockpile of ventilators, Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, told public television TVR.

(VOVWORLD) - Four Vietnamese entrepreneurs have made the Forbes magazine list of the world’s richest people in 2020.

(VOVWORLD) - US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would like to reopen the US economy with a “big bang”, but admitted the coronavirus death toll needs to be on the downslope before that can happen.

(VOVWORLD) - The WHO Regional Director for Europe on Wednesday described the continuing fight against COVID-19 in Europe as a "marathon", and said it is not yet time to relax measures.

(VOVWORLD) - Dr. Gerhard Will, a German expert on the East Sea, said in an interview with Vietnam News Agency in Germany that China should quit militarizing the East Sea and show a willingness to cooperate in security and economics on the basis of equality and the observance of international law.

(VOVWORLD) - 73% of enterprises in Vietnam have adopted policies to help workers whose financial well-being has been threatened by the Covid-19 epidemic, said Vu Tien Loc, President of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI).

(VOVWORLD) - The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday issued a statement expressing its deep concern over a Chinese coast guard vessel sinking a Vietnamese fishing boat in the East Sea on April 3.

(VOVWORLD) - European media expressed appreciation for Vietnam's donation of facemasks to European countries to help them fight the Covid-19 pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - The Ministry of Health on Wednesday urged domestic research institutes and manufacturers to focus their resources on developing more reliable Covid-19 test kits for mass production to meet Vietnam’s increasing need.

(VOVWORLD) -Vietnam reported no new cases of the novel coronavirus on the morning of Thursday as the country’s infection tally remains at 251, according to the National Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control.