Da Nang urges COVID-19 precautions amid summer tourism surge
Travel 20:06 19/05/2025As the summer travel season approaches, the Department of Health in Da Nang City, central Vietnam is urging residents to remain vigilant and adopt preventive measures against COVID-19, warning that case numbers may rise during the tourism peak.
World's fastest-growing pizza chain to close all stores in Ho Chi Minh City
Economy 11:07 19/05/2025Dodo Pizza, the world's fastest-growing pizza chain in 2021, has announced it will close all its four branches in Ho Chi Minh City from May 26.
COVID-19 still under control in Vietnam amid rising cases in Thailand
Vietnam News 16:18 14/05/2025Amid surging COVID-19 cases in Thailand, Vietnam still keeps the virus at bay with 148 cases and no deaths logged across 27 provinces and cities since early this year, according to the Ministry of Health.
CEO of Vietnam’s homegrown COVID-19 vaccine company passes away
Vietnam News 13:42 13/05/2025Ho Nhan, CEO of Nanogen—the company behind the development of a ‘Made in Vietnam’ COVID-19 vaccine—has passed away at the age of 59.
Aid funding disrupts child vaccinations almost as much as pandemic, says UN
World 09:42 24/04/2025LONDON -- Global aid funding cuts, led by the United States, are disrupting efforts to vaccinate children against deadly diseases almost as much as the COVID-19 pandemic did, the United Nations said on Thursday.
Trump's White House launches COVID website that criticizes WHO, Fauci and Biden
World 10:13 20/04/2025Republican U.S. President Donald Trump's White House launched a COVID-19 website on Friday in which it blamed the origins of the coronavirus on a lab leak in China while criticizing Democratic former President Joe Biden, former top U.S. health official Anthony Fauci and the World Health Organization.
WHO countries strike landmark agreement on tackling future pandemics
World 15:15 16/04/2025Years of negotiations culminated early Wednesday with countries agreeing the text of a landmark accord on how to tackle future pandemics, aimed at avoiding the mistakes made during the COVID-19 crisis.
Zero AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses left in Vietnam: NIHE
Vietnam News 18:51 08/05/2024The vaccine doses expired in July 2023
Disbandment proposed for last COVID-19 field hospital in Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam News 11:49 28/10/2023The hospital was earlier designated to resume operations within 48 hours to receive COVID-19 patients if the pandemic recurs
Last COVID-19 field hospital in Vietnam to close
Vietnam News 09:27 25/10/2023Dozens of beds, tables, and notebooks containing the names of patients who died of COVID-19 remain inside each room in the intensive care area
Ho Chi Minh City seeks permission to culture novel coronavirus
Vietnam News 19:31 01/02/2023If allowed to culture the new coronavirus, the southern city will be able to better assess herd immunity
Vietnam’s COVID-19 daily count hits 3-month high
Vietnam News 16:30 19/08/2022A health official believed that the number of announced cases is still lower than that in reality
