Hanoi authorities have decided to suspend outdoor sport activities and physical exercise starting 6:00pm on July 8 until further notice due to the complex developments of the COVID-19 pandemic.

PM Pham Minh Chinh has pledged to give priority to HCM City in terms of financial resources, infrastructure, materials and biological products to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, which is spreading rapidly and complicatedly in the southern hub.

The livelihoods of millions of people in Ho Chi Minh City are in limbo as the city fights to contain its largest COVID-19 outbreak yet.

Many non-residents in HCMC have been plunged into unimaginable hardship caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, but the Saigonese are willing to provide a shot in the arm for them to ride out the pandemic together.

Three more COVID-19 patients have died in HCM City, Da Nang and Bac Giang taking the total number of fatalities to 105.

HCM City Police on Tuesday night sent officers to help staff in Chi Hoa Prison stamp out a riot among inmates days after the COVID-19 related death of a prisoner.

The Ministry of Health will mobilise about 10,000 medical workers to aid Ho Chi Minh City in the COVID-19 pandemic, Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said on July 7.

Both employees and employers that are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic can gain access to the Government’s support package worth 26 trillion VND (1.13 billion USD) from July 8.

The Ministry of Health announced 1,007 new infections, ten imported and 997 locally transmitted on Wednesday.

HCM City will apply social distancing measures under the Prime Minister's Directive 16 for 15 days starting 0am on July 9, said Nguyen Thanh Phong, Chairman of the municipal People's Committee.

With the COVID-19 pandemic leaving many people in HCM City poor and hungry, a small group of friends in District 10 have cooked up a wonderful initiative: making food and distributing it to people they see on the street.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has requested provincial-level localities nationwide to impose home quarantine on people coming or returning from Ho Chi Minh City for seven days 

The National Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control on Wednesday morning announced the deaths of five more COVID-19 patients, four of them are not suffering from underlying health issues in HCM City.

For only the second time, more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases have been detected in a single day.

Since May COVID cases have been proliferating, and lab technicians at hospitals around HCMC have been mobilised to help the Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention cope with the load.  

The Centre for Disease Control of Hanoi on Tuesday morning reported 10 community cases of COVID-19 in the city, including five members of a family in My Duc District, breaking a 10-day streak without new cases.

Four more COVID-19 deaths were announced on Tuesday morning, all of them elderly women with serious underlying health issues in Hanoi, Nghe AN, Ha Tinh and HCM City.

The National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control at noon on July 5 announced four deaths related to the coronavirus in some southern provinces.

The health ministry on Monday announced four new COVID-19-related deaths, all elderly people with multiple chronic health issues in the southern region, bringing the total number of fatalities to 90.

The Ministry of Health this afternoon, July 5, reported four Covid-19 deaths and 247 fresh domestic infections, with HCMC accounting for the most, 196.