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An additional 80 more Covid-19 patients have been confirmed, raising the total number of patients in the country to 13,862, the Ministry of Health reported on Wednesday noon.

Over 243,000 people in HCM City's Binh Tan District queued in for the Covid-19 test during the night on June 22.

All foreigners travelling on internal flights must have a valid passport that has been approved for entry and travel within the country.

Sydneysiders were largely banned from leaving the city Wednesday as Australian authorities rushed to stop a growing outbreak of the highly contagious Delta Covid-19 variant from spreading to other regions.

Trials for Nanocovax, a made-in-Vietnam Covid-19 vaccine, have shown positive results.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Health confirmed another 55 locally-infected Covid-19 cases on Wednesday morning, with 51 found in HCM City.

Hanoi received about 2.9 million tourists in the first six months of 2021, mainly domestic visitors, a year-on-year decrease of 25%, according to the municipal Department of Tourism.

A 26-year-old man died 39 hours after being vaccinated with the COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine, the Centre for Disease Control of Hanoi has announced.

UNFPA has just sent some 5,100 Dignity Kits to women and girls in the two northern provinces of Bac Giang and Bac Ninh as well as Ho Chi Minh City that have been most affected by the current fourth

An additional 97 more Covid-19 patients have been recorded, raising the daily counts to 248 and total number of patients in the country to 13,727, the Ministry of Health reported on Tuesday evening.

The southern province of Tien Giang has recorded a Covid-19-related fatality, a 61-year-old woman with underlying medical conditions.

A man and two mentally-affected children in Thai Nguyen Province are in need of financial help to build a new house.

The Ministry of Health reported that additional 100 Covid-19 patients had been detected in the six hours from 6 am to 12 pm on Tuesday, including five from abroad.

The Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system will be rolled out by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for matches in the final round of the 2022 FIFA World Cup Asian Qualifiers this September, including Vietnam’s games.

The United States unveiled plans on June 21 to share an additional 55 million COVID-19 vaccine doses with more than 50 countries, including Vietnam, as part of their latest efforts to strengthen the global response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Restaurants in Hanoi reopened on-site services June 22 after social distancing for Covid-19 prevention.

State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has lauded the widespread and effective development of Vietnam – Singapore friendship during a reception in Hanoi on June 21 for Singaporean Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan.

His bald head glistening with sweat, Zhi Xiang peers into the eyes of a stray dog whose coat has become matted in heavy rain and says soothingly: "Let me cut your hair, cutie."

The beauty of the terraced rice fields in the northern mountainous province of Hà Giang's Hoàng Su Phì District will be highlighted at a culture and tourism week in September, according to a report from the provincial People’s Committee.