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A batch of around 1.44 million doses of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines were brought to HCM City on Thursday.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has signed an official dispatch aimed at providing treatment and implementing social welfare policies for homeless and disadvantaged people.

Three workers have died from CO2 suffocation while working at a pipe construction project in Vung Ang Economic Zone in the central province of Ha Tinh.

Many drivers have been fined for illegally transporting people from Hanoi to some northern localities.

Dantri/DTiNews readers have donated around VND140 million (USD6,086) to a poor and ailing woman in the northern central province of Thanh Hoa.

The Ministry of Health has allowed the distribution of 103,680 more vials of the antiviral drug Remdesivir for the Covid-19 treatment in many localities.

Authorities in HCM City have detected 69 Covid-19 infection cases after conducting testing for over 800 homeless people.

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, trade revenue between Vietnam and other ASEAN countries has still been on the rise, but much still needs to be done to fully capitalise on these neighbouring markets.

Australia has committed to share 1.5 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine with Vietnam, with the first shipment of more than 400,000 doses due to arrive this week.

A nature museum project is expected to be carried out in the outlying district of Quoc Oai in Hanoi.

President of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics (HCMA) and Chairman of the Party Central Committee's Theoretical Council Nguyen Xuan Thang hosted a reception for Australian Ambassador to Vietnam Robyn Mudie on August 26.

Vietnam attracted US$19.12 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) capital by August 20, equivalent to 97.9% compared to the same period last year, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

US Vice President Kamala Harris said her trip to Vietnam “signals the beginning of the next chapter” in the relationship between the two countries, at a press conference on June 26 at the end of her three-day visit to Vietnam.

Vietnam announced 11,575 more Covid-19 infections on Thursday and 18,567 patients recovered from the diseases the same day, according to the Ministry of Health.

Dantri/DTiNews has launched the Stay Strong Vietnam Charity Programme to support Covid-19 victims and frontline workers.

The first batches of the one million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines that US Vice President Kamala Harris announced to donate to Vietnam have arrived in Hanoi and HCM City, according to the US Vice President Office.

The capital of Hanoi is at high risk of recording an increase in the number COVID-19 cases within the community as it has many densely populated alleys and streets, as well as crowded residential areas, according to experts.

Hung Vuong Hospital in HCM City on Wednesday launched a centre for healthy new-born babies born to Covid-19-infected mothers.

Le Van Cong on August 26 secured a silver medal for Vietnam in the men’s 49kg powerlifting at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.