Vietnam is accelerating efforts to secure adequate vaccine supplies amidst a resurgence of COVID-19 infections in the country, said Dr Le Hong Hiep, a Senior Fellow at Singapore-based ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, in a commentary published on fulcrum.sg on June 8.
Three Mark 81 (MK-81) bombs left over from wartime were found in Trang Da commune in Tuyen Quang city, the northern province of Tuyen Quang, by local people and sappers from the municipal military command on June 9.
A variant of the novel coronavirus that Vietnamese Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long presented as a combination of the strains first identified in the UK and India is not a new ‘hybrid’, but the existing B.1.617 strain first detected in India, World Health Organisation (WHO) representative to Vietnam Dr Kidong Park told Japanese newspaper Nikkei in a virtual interview.