Vietnam on April 22 recorded a COVID-19 related death after experiencing a single coronavirus fatality for months, the Ministry of Health said in its coronavirus update on April 22.

Hanoi has encouraged its residents to wear face masks in public places and increase Covid-19 preventive measures amid amid spike in Covid-19 cases in recent days.

Health authorities in the capital city of Hanoi discovered Covid’s newly-dominant XBB.1.5 variant which spreads more quickly or makes people more severely ill.

Ho Chi Minh City has recorded an infection caused by the XBB.1.5 sub-strain of the Omicron COVID-19 variant, as announced by the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health.

The Ministry of Health on April 12 sent an urgent dispatch on strengthening the prevention and control of COVID-19 to the People's Committees of all 63 provinces and centrally-run cities.

Vietnamese Ministry of Health yesterday announced the country recorded 183 cases of Covid-19 without deaths in the day.

More than 236 trillion VND (10 billion USD) had been mobilised to directly serve the COVID-19 prevention and control as of December 31, 2022, according to a report by a National Assembly (NA) supervisory delegation.

The Ministry of Health has stated that while the COVID-19 situation is currently under control within the country, the risk of new, more dangerous variants emerging is too high to downgrade the status of the virus yet.

The recent shortage of medicine and medical supplies at some public healthcare facilities is not solely due to the COVID-19 pandemic but a range of subjective causes, according to Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan.

A British couple among the nation's first COVID-19 patients have returned to Vietnam to thank the medical staff who treated them and present the hosts with a book about their time under care.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has officially added COVID-19 to the list of occupational diseases, meaning that certain employees will be able to make social insurance payment claims if they contracted the coronavirus.

HCM City’s Health Department has proposed the Ministry of Health permit the city's Hospital for Tropical Diseases to culture the SARS-CoV-2 virus in its laboratory.

Vietnam still approves use of Covid antibody treatment Evusheld as it is still effective against subvariants circulating in the Southeast Asian country.

The Ministry of Public Security (MPS) is investigating 89 cases of overpriced procurement bid packages relating to COVID-19 control in Hanoi.

According to health experts, the number of Covid-19 cases in Vietnam will increase after the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday, while the "most contagious" sub-variant of Omicron will appear.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosted a reception in Hanoi on January 13 for Aurélia Nguyen, Chief Programme Strategy Officer at the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) and former Managing Director of COVAX Facility.

HCM City has not yet recorded the sub-variant XBB.1.5. However, the city has prepared plans for the worst case.

The number of Covid-19 infections is increasing, but the figure has not exceeded 100.

XBB, a new Omicron subvariant, has been found in HCMC and neighboring Tay Ninh Province.

Chief Representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Vietnam Dr Angela Pratt on January 6 warned that the fight against COVID-19 is not over yet as many people are getting infected, hospitalised, and dead in many countries around the world.