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Vietnam continued to report a fall in daily Covid-19 infections with 8,537 cases confirmed on Friday, according to the Ministry of Health.

HCM City People's Committee has approved a proposal to reduce the interval between AstraZeneca doses to six weeks.

VABIOTECH, one of Vietnam’s leading pharmaceutical companies, has successfully produced its first batch of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19, VABIOTECH announced.

Four hundred thousand doses of the Covid-19 vaccine donated to Vietnam from Japan will arrive at Tan Son Nhat Airport on September 25.

Two fishermen have gone missing after their boat collided with a cargo ship off the coast of the central province of Binh Dinh on Thursday evening

Deputy Minister of National Defence Sen. Lieut. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien met with Patrick Leahy, president pro tempore of the US Senate on September 22 (local time) in Washington DC, with their discussion focusing on war-aftermath mitigation projects in Vietnam.

The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) on September 23 passed a resolution to officially cancel all professional football tournaments in Vietnam in 2021, including the top-flight V.League 1.

Phu Quoc Island City will resume its tourism activities from November 20 following a long suspension due to Covid-19.

A dyke which protects the Hoai River in the central province of Quang Nam’s Hoi An City has seriously deteriorated after being put into use for just four years.

The authorities in Cat Hai District, Hai Phong City have started to relocate over 400 fish farms in Cat Ba Islands to protect the environment.

Many areas in the central Quang Ngai Province have been flooded with houses damaged after a rainstorm on September 23.

Hanoi authorities will spend VND500bn (USD21.8m) on upgrading and rebuilding old apartment buildings that are more than 60 years old.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc received representatives of the US-ASEAN Business Council, the American Chamber of Commerce, the US Chamber of Commerce, and several US companies and multinational groups in New York.

The PetroVietnam Gas Joint Stock Corporation (PV GAS) and US-based AES Corporation signed a joint venture agreement on the establishment and operation of Son My LNG port warehouse limited company in New York on September 22 (local time).

Vietnamese photographer Tran Viet Van was awarded a silver medal in the press awards for a photo entitled “90-year-old shoemaker” during the PX3 Paris Photography Prize 2021.

The nation requests China to respect its sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes, immediately stop and not to repeat similar violations.

Vietnam confirmed an additional 9,472 Covid-19 infections on Thursday and 6,226 patients were discharged from hospital following their recovery the same day, according to the Ministry of Health.

Phu Quoc City in the southern province of Kien Giang has set up mobile medical stations due to the sharp rise in Covid-19 cases.

The central province of Quang Nam has banned ships and boats from going to sea and made evacuation plans as a tropical depression has been forecasted to develop into a storm.