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The Ministry of Health on August 22 reported 11,214 new COVID-19 infections in Vietnam, including six imported cases.

Three more COVID-19 patients, all elderly people with underlying health problems, have died of complications over the past several days, raising the death toll of the coronavirus to 97.

Two more people have died of COVID-19 complications, taking the death toll in Vietnam since the beginning of the pandemic to 74.

The treatment section under the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control on June 20 announced two new deaths from COVID-19-related complications, raising the pandemic death toll in the country to 66.

Vietnam on June 19 recorded the 63rd and 64th COVID-19-related deaths, both of them are patients with underlying health conditions, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control's Treatment Subcommittee.

Vietnam documented one locally-transmitted COVID-19 case in the northern province of Bac Giang in the past 12 hours as of 6 am on February 10, taking the national tally from the latest outbreak to 484 cases, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

Thai authorities said a Thailand-Myanmar border checkpoint in western Thailand will remain closed until November 16 due to the complicated COVID-19 developments in Myanmar.

Vietnam reported no new COVID-19 cases within the past 12 hours as of 6 a.m on September 24, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

Vietnam has gone through 15 straight days without any coronavirus infections in the community, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

Advances in treatment at hospitals nationwide have helped save more and more premature infants who are at high risk of mortality.

Vietnam logged zero new COVID-19 cases within the past 12 hours as of 6 a.m of September 9, according to the national steering committee for COVID-19 prevention and control.

A 69-year-old man has died of COVID-19-related complications, marking the 33rd fatality in Vietnam.

A 67-year-old woman in the central city of Da Nang died of coronavirus-related complications on August 29, the second death in a single day. ​

One COVID-19 patient died on August 22, becoming the 26th fatality in Vietnam, the steering committee for COVID-19 prevention and control said late August 22.

A COVID-19 patient died on August 2, raising the number of fatalities in Vietnam to six, all of whom had serious underlying illnesses.

The central city of Da Nang is implementing preventive measures to control the spread of hand-foot-mouth (HFM) diseases as the number of HFM infections has increased steadily in the region.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) will continue to use the ComBE Five vaccine in a national expanded immunisation programme (EIP), a senior official said.

The reoccurrence of virus Enterovirus 71 (EV71), a common cause of life-threatening illnesses for hand-foot-mouth (HFMD) patients, has made the disease dangerous and could easily spread into an outbreak, health experts have said.

People require medical care even before they fall sick, said Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien at the opening of a training programme to improve the quality of local clinics and the country’s grass-roots level health care system, in Hanoi’s Dan Phuong district.

The number of people getting flu vaccines has risen in recent days following three deaths from swine flu (A/H1N1) in Ho Chi Minh City.