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Vietnam presents 10,000 medical face masks to Azerbaijan people

24 HRS Medical - 02/05/2020

Chairman of the Vietnam-Azerbaijan Friendship Association Nghiem Vu Khai (third from left) symbolically handed over the gift to the Azerbaijan Ambassador (Photo: VNA) At the handover ceremony...

HCMC puts apartment building under lockdown over fears of Covid-19 spread

24 HRS Medical - 02/05/2020

The apartment building on Nguyen Dinh Chieu Street in HCMC’s District 1 is on lockdown - PHOTO: TPO The district’s police and urban order tea...

Large volume of illicit drugs seized in HCMC

24 HRS Medical - 02/05/2020

Ecstasy pills sent from Europe are seized by HCMC law enforcement. The HCMC Department of Customs has confiscated over 18 kilograms of ecstasy pil...

How Contagious? Likely Before You Know You’re Sick

24 HRS Medical - 29/04/2020

Although a lot of emphasis has been placed on the need to stay home if you feel sick, many studies have shown that people are often contagious before...

No new COVID-19 cases reported on Tuesday morning as PM issues new instructions

24 HRS Medical - 29/04/2020

Two health workers check on a patient in the northern province of Ha Giang's Dong Van District. By 6am Tuesday morning, Viet Nam has had 130...

More than 100 Vietnamese brought home from Indonesia

24 HRS Medical - 27/04/2020

Spraying disinfectant at the airport (Source: baoquocte.vn) They are those from disadvantaged backgrounds such as children, elderly people, a...

Number of COVID-19 cases remains unchanged over last two days

24 HRS Medical - 27/04/2020

Staff members of the Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute test samples to seek SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 Notably, there haven’...

Coronavirus: Worldwide death toll climbs to 200,000

24 HRS Medical - 27/04/2020

More than 200,000 people worldwide have now died with the coronavirus, figures from Johns Hopkins University show. There are more than 2.8 million co...