Around 220,000 people working mostly as street vendors and garbage collectors in HCMC have received a total of VND330 billion ($14.32 million) from a Covid-19 relief package.

A painting exhibition by prodigy Xeo Chu will seek to raise money for frontline Covid-19 workers in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's current pandemic hotspot.

(BGO) - Over the past month, a series of enterprises based outside industrial parks in Bac Giang province are focusing on restoring production and business activities. However, some businesses have not controlled the Covid-19 pandemic well, increasing the risk of coronavirus spreading.

The Health Ministry announced 1,438 local Covid-19 patients in 18 localities Friday morning, led by Ho Chi Minh City.

HCMC police are looking for a 27-year-old death row convict infected with the Covid-19 virus who has escaped from the prison.