coronavirus

Vaccine rollout ‘too slow’ in many areas as the Southeast Asian nation battled its worst coronavirus outbreak yet

Ho Chi Minh City sets target to administer 4 million COVID-19 shots this month. The city records 100,557 Covid-19 cases since the fourth wave began on April 27.

HCMC’s coronavirus infection tally in new wave crosses 100,000. Vietnam cuts utility bills as part of Covid-19 relief.

Vietnam on Monday received 1.188 million more AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine doses from global vaccine access mechanism Covax as the country records 7,445 cases and 389 deaths.

Until recently, Vietnam’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic had been a remarkable success story. The emergence of the Delta variant in Vietnam at the end of April 2021 changed everything

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The positive results was attributed to early post-pandemic recovery of markets.

Within today, Vietnam recorded 8,597 new infections, the fourth highest day since the pandemic broke out in the country.

Vietnam’s total COVID-19 cases reached 154,360 on Sunday after the Ministry of Health reported a daily increase of 8,620 new cases. A total of 23 cases were imported and 8,597 were locally transmitted.

All southern cities extend social distancing for another 14 days as Vietnam records 4,372 local and 2 imported Covid-19 patients Sunday morning

With cases rapidly rising and the capacity of state hospitals stretched, however, asymptomatic cases in outbreak epicentre Ho Chi Minh City have been permitted to isolate at home on a trial basis.

Vietnam confirms another 4,060 Covid-19 patients in 22 localities Saturday morning as Thousands return to central region by motorbike from Covid-19 hotspots due to halt to public buses, some positive cases were found among them

Another 8,622 domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases were recorded in Vietnam on Friday, along with 27 imported cases in the past 24 hours, making this the second-highest daily increase in cases since the beginning of the pandemic

Japanese officials sounded the alarm Thursday as Tokyo reported record-breaking new Covid-19 cases for the third-straight day with the Olympics well underway.

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