Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Sunday called on nations, organisations and individuals to observe the International Day of Epidemic Preparedness (December 27), an initiative by Việt Nam adopted by the United Nations at the beginning of December.

Three first volunteers received the first shot of a dose of 50mcg of Nanocovax COVID-19 vaccine on December 26 morning. 

A man who entered the country illegally from Myanmar is the latest patient to test positive for COVID-19.

The Health Department of the southern province of Vĩnh Long has quickly put in quarantine a person who returned from abroad from a pandemic hit country without declaration, conducted COVID-19 tests and traced people who had close contact with this person.

The number of people receiving unemployment allowance is estimated to reach 1.03 million by the end of this year, about 24 per cent higher than the same period last year due to the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic.

A young man from a poor commune of Thanh Hoá Province has been successful in growing chilli peppers for export.

Local authorities of south-central provinces have taken strong and prompt actions to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in an effort to help local fishery sector remove the formal warning (yellow card) imposed by the European Commission and support farmers to recover from losses.