Over 12,000 people nationwide have registered to use Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) service since its launch in 2017, helping to control HIV infections in the community, according to statistics from the Ministry of Health (MoH).

The Ministry of Information and Communications partnered with the Ministries of Health and Foreign Affairs to hold a workshop on the application of technologies in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 in Hanoi on November 5.

Vietnam had no new COVID-19 infections to report on November 5 afternoon, said the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

Vietnam recorded one new imported case of COVID-19 between 6pm on November 4 and 6pm on November 5, raising the national count to 1,207, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

Three new imported cases of COVID-19 were recorded from 6am to 6pm on November 4, raising the national count to 1,206, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

Providing young people with knowledge about sexual and reproductive health combined with life skills education is a necessary and urgent issue, a top health official has said.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has urged Nanogen Biopharmaceutical Co. Ltd. to complete procedures to promptly carry out COVID-19 vaccine testing on humans in November.

According to the State of Global Air 2020 Report by the Health Effects Institute and Institue for Health Metrics and Evaluation, total number of people breathing indoor polluted air resulted from the use of solid fuels for cooking in Vietnam has decreased by nine million people in 2010-2019 period.

Vietnam had a total 84,411 dengue fever cases to report in the first 10 months of 2020, with 13 fatalities, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).

Vietnam has no COVID-19 cases to report over the last 12 hours, keeping the national tally at 1,192, the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control reported on November 3.

Vietnam confirmed 12 more imported COVID-19 cases from 6am-6pm on November 2, reported the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

The National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control has expressed its determination to prevent a new COVID-19 outbreak as winter nears.

COVID-19 vaccine testing has begun on monkeys in Vietnam.

Vietnam underwent two months without community transmission of Covid-19 as of November 1, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.