(BGO) – According to the Industrial Park Management Board (IPMB), Bac Giang now has 385 operating companies in the industrial parks (IP) with more than 190,000 labours, 98.57 percent and 97.95 percent of whom received one and two vaccine shot respectively.

VnExpress’s Hope Foundation has handed around 1,500 gift packages to children whose parents succumbed to Covid-19 in southern epicenters ahead of the country's biggest holiday Tet.

Vietnam logged an additional 15,684 Covid-19 infections, including 41 imported ones, over the past 24 hours to 4pm on January 16, the Ministry of Health reported.

Air passengers from Omicron-hit countries and territories will continue to undergo rapid Covid-19 testing when entering Vietnam, and they will pay the fee via ticket prices or directly to test organisers at international airports.

Update of Covid-19 new cases in Vietnam on Jan. 12 afternoon.