The national COVID-19 prevention and control app PC-Covid Viet Nam, was made available on App Store and CH Play for smartphones using iOS or Android from September 30, developed from Bluezone.

Vietnam recorded 7,940 COVID-19 infections, including three imported cases, in the past 24 hours to 5pm on September 30, according to the Ministry of Health.

PM Pham Minh Chinh has directed the Health Ministry to urgently issue COVID-19 self-testing guidelines for enterprises, thus creating favourable conditions for them to stay proactive in their business activities.

Ngoc Diep, a female hospital orderly, has organised a virtual wedding with her future husband from Ho Chi Minh City, the epicentre of the latest wave of the pandemic.

A rapid testing kit sourced from China is being sold at three different price levels.

The pandemic is still there but the two-month-journey has been tiring. It's time for the doctors and medical staff to return from the pandemic center.

During her first day on a new mission to support HCM City, Nguyen Thi Hoa, an operator of the 1022 hotline, received a call from a citizen. On the other end of the line was a frail female voice, interspersed with the cries of a child.

The call at midnight from Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh to HaNam’s leader led to a breakthrough in the Covid-19 prevention and control strategy.

Vietnam confirmed 4,589 COVID-19 infections, including 6 imported cases, in the past 24 hours to 5pm on September 28, according to the Ministry of Health.

HCM City’s health department said there are about 150,000 positive COVID-19 cases detected through rapid antigen tests that have not been accounted for in the national tally.

Singer Phi Nhung, 51, passed away today after more than a month of COVID-19 treatment at Cho Ray Hospital, HCM City.

Within two months, the National Assembly Chair Vuong Dinh Hue convened two urgent meetings of the National Assembly Standing Committee to release unprecedented resolutions to fight the pandemic.

Vietnam recorded an additional 9,362 COVID-19 infections, including 20 imported cases, in the past 24 hours to 5pm on September 27, according to the Ministry of Health.

The fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in Ho Chi Minh City has seen higher efficiency as the numbers of new cases, severe patients and deaths have decreased while the number of discharged patients has increased rapidly, said a municipal official.

K1, Hung Vuong Hospital in HCM City, is a special sector where pregnant women who have severe and critical Covid-19 infections are treated. 

As many as 160,000 shippers in Ho Chi Minh City have received at least one shot of vaccine against COVID-19, with 33,025 of them getting full two shots, reported Deputy Director of the municipal Department of Industry and Trade Nguyen Nguyen Phuong.

Vietnam will gradually ease social distancing in a controlled way by September 30 to support socio-economic development, said Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.

Up to 88 per cent of households across Vietnam suffered due to the COVID-19 pandemic with those working in the tourism, service and manufacturing sectors the most severely affected.

About 41.1% of Vietnamese people aged 18 and above have received the first dose of a vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 virus, according to Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long.

Vietnam recorded an additional 8,537 infections, including seven imported cases, in the past 24 hours to 5pm on September 24, according to the Ministry of Health.