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40 more people have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in Vietnam, raising the total number of patients in the country to 2,311, the Ministry of Health reported on Tuesday evening.

Some people continue to operate boats to transport visitors to the Huong Pagoda in Hanoi despite being banned.

The capacity of the second field hospital in the northern province of Hai Duong has been doubled to 600 sick-beds.

The State planning agency National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC) of Thailand said on February 15 that the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) shrank 6.1 percent in 2020.

Around 1.5 million migrant workers across Vietnam did not return home for the Lunar New Year due to fears about Covid-19 infections, according to Nguyen Dinh Khang, President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour.

Hanoi authorities have decided to temporarily shut all local street food and refreshment stalls and coffee shops from 0:00 on February 16.

Vietnam would get around five million Covid-19 vaccine doses by the end of this month, according to

The Tu Lan cave system, one of Vietnam’s most diverse subterranean kingdoms, has become a newly-emerging destination for backpackers.

Competent agencies in Hanoi are working urgently and drastically to screen F1 and F2 cases of a COVID-19-infected Japanese man who was found dead from unknown causes at a local hotel on February 13.

Vietnam reported two new locally-infected Covid-19 patients this morning, February 16, according to the Ministry of Health.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has ordered the health sector to conduct all necessary measures to make COVID-19 vaccines available in Vietnam this month either through purchasing or from UN organisations.

Of the six ASEAN nations, only Vietnam posted an increase in exports for 2020, up 7 percent to 282.66 billion USD, according to The Straits Times.

At least nine people have died and 10 are missing after a landslide caused by torrential rains swept away several homes in Indonesia, officials said Monday, with hundreds forced to flee their flooded homes.

40 more people have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in Vietnam, raising the total number of patients in the country to 2,269, the Ministry of Health reported on Monday evening.

As many as 31 road traffic accidents were recorded on February 15, or the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, killing 19 people and injuring 24 others, according to the Ministry of Public Security’s Department of Traffic Police.

The northern province of Hai Duong will carry out social distancing from February 16 in an attempt to curb the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

A poor family in Dak Nong Province have welcomed a happy Lunar New Year or Tet Holiday in a new house built from donations from Dantri readers.

The marine economy has become key to Vietnam's economic structure and exploitation of the country's seas and islands has created a new driving force for development amid deep international integration, experts have said.

Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long has ordered the northern province of Hai Duong considering implementing the Prime Minister’s Decree 16/CT-TTg on a wider scale to avoid getting behind developments of the pandemic.