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.

Authorities in HCM City and Long An Province have suspended operations of a number of businesses so that epidemic prevention measures can be carried out.

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.

At 3.30 pm July 8, the time for the English exam, the last exam for the 2021 high school finals ended, and the exam organizers felt relieved. 

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has affirmed that all resources are being mobilised in order to help Ho Chi Minh City combat the COVID-19 pandemic, with the southern metropolis asked to prepare for a possible infection scenario of up to 50,000.

Work on the first bus rapid transit (BRT) project in HCMC is expected to kick off in early 2022 and put into operation in 2023, according to the HCMC Transportation Works Construction Investment Project Management Authority.

The Ministry of Health confirmed 713 more COVID-19 cases were detected during the 7 hours to 7pm on July 11, raising the national count to 29,816.

The Ministry of National Defense has just sent a mobile Covid-19 testing van from the capital city of Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City in order to strengthen the testing capacity in the city.

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s current biggest COVID-19 outbreak hot spot, is on the right track in pandemic prevention and control after two days of social distancing imposed in the entire city.

Secretary of the HCMC Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen said the city will mobilize its uttermost manpower, materials for the fight against Covid-19.

The Ministry of Heath reported a new record for daily domestically transmitted COVID-19 infections with 1,844 cases in 31 localities on Saturday.

Within a few hours of offering to sell vegetables online, Thanh Truc sold out her stocks and had to refuse orders.

The local authorities of HCMC will impose administrative sanctions on people that go out for non-essential reasons from July 9.

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.

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.

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 Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health has developed a response plan for a scenario in which the number of COVID-19 patients reaches 10,000 – 15,000, including 500 severe cases.