Hanoi authorities on July 18 halted all non-essential services from July 19 amid the complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

PM Pham Minh Chinh has instructed ministries and local administrations around the country to create favourable conditions for local people who went to HCM City, Can Tho and southern provinces for work and other reasons to return home.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on July 17 ordered social distancing in 19 southern localities that are stricken by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Vietnam logged 1,883 domestically-transmitted COVID-19 infections and 15 imported cases in the past 12 hours to 6:30 pm on July 16, bringing the national tally to 44,186, according to the Ministry of Health.

More than 200 health workers are taking care of more than 4,000 infected people who have no symptoms or mild symptoms at the field hospital No. 6 in An Khanh ward, Thu Duc, HCM City.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has required southern localities to immediately set up support centres and hotlines to provide help to people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic which has been spreading fast recently.

Vietnam logged in 1,438 new cases of COVID-19, all local infections from 7:30pm on July 15 to 6am on July 16, pushing the national count to 42,288, according to the Ministry of Health.

Additional 805 COVID-19 infections were reported on July 15 morning, including four imported cases, according to the Ministry of Health.

Vietnam as of July 10 had reported 26,608 Covid-19 infection cases and 110 deaths.

A project is being implemented with the participation of Vietnamese scientists who are trying to use AI to discover Covid-19 infections through coughs.

Due to the complexity of the latest Covid-19 outbreak in HCM City, residents have been asked to download and install the apps named ‘Y Tế HCM’ and ‘Tổng đài 1022’ on their iOS or Android devices for ease of health declaration and information updates.

From July 9, Ho Chi Minh City entered 15 days of social distancing under Directive 16 of the Prime Minister. This is a valuable time for Vietnam’s largest metropolis to find new strategies to 'live together' with the Covid-19 epidemic.

HCM City, the country’s COVID epicentre, will be given priority for COVID-19 vaccines, with 25 per cent of the total vaccine doses received in July going to the city, according to Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.

Hanoi will once again enforce further restrictions on non-essential services in response to growing risks of COVID-19 transmission from arrivals from outbreak-hit regions as well as insufficient public observance of COVID prevention measures.

Four more deaths related to COVID-19 were announced by health authorities Monday morning, including two people in their forties.

The Hanoi Centre for Disease Control (HCDC) recorded 10 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday morning, including two cases relating to SEI Company and eight cases related to people returning to the capital from HCM City.

Many businesses and manufacturers are finding ways to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic, maintaining operations and keeping workers safe.

The Government will give priority to Ho Chi Minh City in allocating COVID-19 vaccines amid a strong surge in infection cases in the city, giving it 25 percent of the total vaccine doses received, according to Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.

Seven more COVID-19 patients have died in Vietnam during the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health reported on July 11.

Additional 662 COVID-19 infections, including three imported cases, were reported in the last 11 hours to 6am on July 12, raising the national tally to 30,478, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).