(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said on Friday that Vietnam will suspend issuing visas or reissuing visas for citizens from remaining countries, including Australia, Japan, and Denmark, beginning from Saturday, except for diplomatic and official passport holders.

(VOVWORLD) - Millions of people could die from the new coronavirus, particularly in poor countries, if it is allowed to spread unchecked, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Thursday, appealing for a coordinated global response to the pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - Members of the Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control on Friday underlined the necessity to curb infections in communities in Vietnam, especially from those who show no symptoms of contracting the disease.

(VOVWORLD) - India will temporarily suspend all its international flights to its airports from Sunday, including those from Vietnam, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union’s Central Committee staff on Friday donated more than 17,000 USD in response to the Vietnam Fatherland Front’s appeal for all people’s contributions to the Covid-19 pandemic prevention and control.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnamese in the US are informed and emotionally prepared to fight the Covid-19 epidemic.

(VOVWORLD) - The Olympic flame was handed by Greece to Japan for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games at a no-spectator ceremony on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong applauded the work done so far in the fight against the pandemic as he chaired the Politburo’s meeting on the Covid-19 prevention and control in Hanoi on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - The Ministry of Health confirmed on Friday that two nurses of Bach Mai hospital in Hanoi have contracted the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), increasing the total number of infected cases in Vietnam to 87.

(VOVWORLD) - Laos has not reported anyone testing positive for the novel coronavirus, but it has raised its public health warning to its highest level, according to Lao Foreign Minister Saleumsay Kommasith at a press conference on Thursday.