One imported case of COVID-19 was reported on December 7, raising the national count to 1,367, according to the National Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
Vietnam posted a record trade surplus of 20.1 billion USD in the first 11 months of this year despite the adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
Strict prevention and control measures are still needed as Vietnam would only massively provide a COVID-19 vaccine in the second quarter of 2022 at the earliest, Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said at a meeting in Hanoi on December 7.