(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnamese Embassy in Australia has worked with the Australian agencies to clarify Prime Minister Scott Morrison statement, which said those in Australia under various visa arrangements and cannot support themselves that there is the alternative for them to return to their home countries as Covid-19 continues.

(VOVWORLD) - The Ministry of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs has ordered businesses to suspend sending Vietnamese guest workers abroad until the end of April 30, according to the Ministry’s public notice.

(VOVWORLD) -Vietnam on Sunday reported no new cases of COVID-19, said the National Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

(VOVWORLD) - A robot to clean and disinfect rooms of quarantined areas has been put into operation at the field hospital in Cu Chi District, Ho Chi Minh City.

(VOVWORLD) - Today is International Mine Awareness Day, April 4. It is estimated that more than 6 million ha of land or 19 per cent of Vietnam’s total area are contaminated with bombs, mines and unexploded ordnance (UXOs) left by wars, which are scattered over all 63 cities and provinces nationwide.

(VOVWORLD) - 20 million Vietnamese people will be beneficiaries of the government’s aid package to cope with the Covid-19 epidemic, said Minister of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung.

(VOVWORLD) - Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son emphasized the importance of international cooperation in the COVID-19 fight during the third phone talks with leaders of the ministries of foreign affairs of the US, Japan, the Republic of Korea (RoK), India, Australia and New Zealand on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Friday once again called for a global ceasefire, urging conflicting parties to lay down weapons, so that war-torn countries could focus on coping with the Covid-19 pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - The novel coronavirus outbreak is affecting 205 countries and territories around the world with more than 1 million infected cases and and nearly 60,000 deaths as of Saturday, according to Worldometers.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam has lodged an official complaint with China following the sinking of a Vietnamese fishing vessel near the former’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago, spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Le Thi Thu Hang said on Friday.