The deaths have occurred close to the city of Seattle and are the only Covid-19 fatalities on US soil.

Despite difficulties resulting from the acute respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), Vietnam’s socio-economic situation in February basically remained stable, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

While online education is common around the world, it is unpopular in Vietnam. Online training is provided by some universities, but it is absent in general education.

Credit institutions have so far supported more than 44,000 COVID-19 affected customers following directions from the State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV), an official reported on Monday.

Millions of students in 59 provinces and cities went back to the school on March 2 after nearly six weeks of absence due to the outbreak of COVID-19.

Quarantine is still the top solution to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that causes the COVID-19, according to Secretary of Hanoi Party Committee Vuong Dinh Hue.

Vietnamese electronics makers have until the end of this quarter to find alternative sources for their input materials as inventories run low and supply would likely remain disrupted due to outbreaks of coronavirus in China and S. Korea.

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has appealed for an end to the wildlife trade and consumption across the Asia-Pacific region amid the ongoing spread of COVID-19 and similar diseases in recent years.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc yesterday emphasised both the requirement for no treatment discrimination against those who have gone through regions hit by COVID-19 to Vietnam and the need to step up quarantine.

Vietnam will unilaterally stop granting visa-free entry to all Italian citizens from 0:00 am on March 3, amid fears over the spread of the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic as the number of infected cases is rising rapidly in this country.

Local wood processing enterprises need to expand supply chains with a focus on seeking suppliers from domestic and overseas markets to ease disruptions from China due to coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, experts have said.

COVID-19 has had a strong impact on the global economy, and the property market has not managed to escape the blow.

Many schools have reopened starting from March 2 after a three-week shutdown due to the Covid-19 outbreak.

The Vietnam Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) fell below the 50.0 no-change mark in February, signalling a deterioration in business conditions, a survey of IHS Markit and Nikkei released on Monday showed.

Thousands of Vietnamese people are returning from South Korea amid the spread of the Covid-19 in the country.

South Korean people in a quarantined area in the northern city of Hai Phong are being served well-prepared meals.

The coronavirus epidemic has sent many of the economic activities into a tailspin.

Hanoi has called on other localities to help ease the overloading at Covid-19 quarantine centres in the area.

Vietnam will never hide any information about the situation of the Covid-19 epidemic in the country, a health official stressed.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has liaised with relevant agencies of the Republic of Korea (RoK) and asked for effective treatment of a Vietnamese citizen contracting COVID-19 in Daegu city.