Minister of Heath Nguyen Thanh Long on May 28 received VND185 billion (US$8.01 million) in donations from businesses for Vietnam’s Covid-19 vaccine fund.

A woman in the northern Bac Giang Province has been fined VND10 million ($434) for refusing to quarantine and barricading herself at home earlier this week.

87 new Covid-19 cases reported on Saturday morning.

Industrial park workers in the northern provinces of Bac Giang and Bac Ninh, Vietnam's biggest coronavirus hotspots, started receiving their coronavirus jabs Thursday.

The 40 cases were reported from Bắc Giang (30), Lạng Sơn (8), Thái Bình (1), and Long An (1).