Vietnamese fruit exporters have not been able to ship to the U.S. for days due to a lack of officials to inspect the safety of their products.

The People's Committee of Hoàn Kiếm District in Hà Nội has announced the capital city’s popular ‘walking streets’ will temporarily close from Friday.

The testing capacity of the health sector has improved considerably during the latest Covid-19 outbreak, figures from the Ministry of Health (MoH) show.

No new Covid-19 cases reported on Friday morning. 

A smart ‘Rice ATM’ was put into operation in Da Nang City on August 18 as a joint effort from the Da Nang City Red Cross Society, the VBPO Joint Stock Company and other benefactors to distribute free rice to local disadvantaged people whose lives are being affected by the Covid-19 epidemic.