(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam highly evaluates efforts and contributions made by UN organisations and UN Resident Coordinator Kamal Malhotra in providing policy consultancy and technical assistance for the country’s recent development, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said.

(VOVWORLD) - The Defense Ministry has received more than 16,000 Vietnamese and foreigners for quarantine, according to a meeting of the Ministry’s steering committee on Covid-19 response on Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - The Health Ministry announced a new Covid-19 case, Vietnam’s 34th, on Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - The European Union-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) and the EU-Vietnam Investment Protection Agreement (EVIPA), scheduled to become effective in July, will improve Vietnam’s business and investment climate and boost its institutional reforms, according to a Government official.

(VOVWORLD) - People should take precautions to protect themselves from the Covid-19 epidemic, and authorities should be prepared to respond to any new development, said Chairman of the Hanoi municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung on Monday at a meeting of Hanoi’s steering board for Covid-19 prevention and control.

(VOVWORLD) - The EU and Turkey will reconsider a 2016 deal on refugees after EU leaders and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held talks about the current refugee crisis in Brussels on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) - The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) announced Monday that all World Cup 2022 qualifiers during March and June are to be delayed due to fears about the Covid-19 outbreak, with all matches now set to take place during October and November, including 3 matches involving the Vietnamese men’s football team.

(VOVWORLD) - The National Health Commission of China said Tuesday that additional Covid-19 cases were confirmed on Monday, bringing the total number of infections in mainland China to more than 80,700, with more than 3,100 deaths.

(VOVWORLD) - Various activities to celebrate 2020 Youth Month are being held nationwide.

(VOVWORLD) - US troops started to leave Afghanistan as the first step in realizing the US-Taliban agreement signed in late February.